[This is the only accurate, complete bibliography for D. Scott Apel that I know of. A link to this is available at the new "D. Scott Apel Resources" section on the right side of this page. Books are available at Barnesandnoble.com and at Amazon.]
Bibliography: D. Scott Apel
Including initial publication/copyright dates
PRINT MEDIA
FICTION
Alec Smart Comic Mysteries
The Uncertainty Principle? (1979, 2015) (Footnote 1)
The Infinite Mistress (2014)
Detective, Comics (2015)
Jobs of Work (2023)
Hollywood, Ending (2023)
Stand-alone novels
Exemplary Lives of Impossible Men (2021)
Unfriendly Takeover at OzCo: A Fairy Tale for Aging Children (2025)
E Attraction (Limited Author’s Edition) (1976)
Escape from 50sville (2021) (editor) (Footnote 2)
Humor
Mein Summer Kampf (2014)
Plays
Fourplay (2018) (Footnote 3)
NON-FICTION
Scholarship on authors (Editor and Contributor)
Science Fiction: An Oral History (2014)
Philip K. Dick: The Dream Connection (1987)
Beyond Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories, Vol. 2 (uncollected Robert Anton Wilson writings) (2019) (Two editions, Apel's original edition and the 2025 Hilaritas Press edition)
Memoirs
NO PLAN B: The Adventures of a Carbon Unit in Silicon Valley (2020)
Famedroppings (2018)
Movie reviews (Footnote 4)
Freelance video columnist for the San Jose Mercury News (1985-1995); published 534 consecutive weekly columns and more than 50 feature articles
Published more than 200 articles on film and video in numerous newspapers and magazines (including Video and Video Review)
Contributing Editor at Reel.com (1996-2005) writing over 1,000 movie synopses for its film database, more than two dozen articles for its online editorial content, and more than a dozen reviews of current films as a film critic. Also developed several courses for Reel U., the world’s first online film school
Killer B’s, Volume 1 (1980-1996): The 237 Best Movies on Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen
Killer B’s, Volume 2: Son of a Killer B (1996-2016): 237 MORE Great Movies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen
Killer B’s: The Hive: The 487 Best Movies* On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen *(and a few TV Shows) (2016)
Killer B’s Action & Thriller: 123 Great Action Movies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen (Killer B’s Movie Guides)
Killer B’s Comedy: Mild: 101 Quietly Comic M ovies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen (Killer B’s Movie Guides)
Killer B’s Comedy: Wild: 101 Insane Comedy Movies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen (Killer B’s Movie Guides)
Killer B’s: Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror: 113 Great Imaginative Movies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen (Killer B’s Movie Guides)
Killer B’s: Drama: 117 Great Dramatic Movies On Demand You’ve (Probably) Never Seen (Killer B’s Movie Guides)
Screenplays (unproduced) (Footnote 5)
Big Talk (1990)
Such a Deal! (1991)
If I Knew Then (1986)
Sleep of Reason (with Will Jacobs) (1992)
Unpublished Novels
Daughter of the Wind (1980)
A Night at the Space Opera (1981)
THEATER
“A Night in the Graveyard” (1991)
“Trouble Is My Career Path” (1992)
“Me and My Shadow” (1992)
“Pledge Night!” (1993)
(All collected in the volume Fourplay)
VISUAL MEDIA (Footnote 6)
Film Roles (per IMDb)
Night Terror (1989)
Almost Hollywood (1994)
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001)
Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)
Television
“The Prisoner” Wraparounds (1985-1996), KTEH-TV, PBS for Silicon Valley
VJ/Host “Sunday Science Fiction Night” (1990-1996), KTEH-TV, PBS for Silicon Valley
FOOTNOTES:
1) You ask about the double copyright date on The Uncertainty Principle? While this is legally unnecessary, I wanted to add the date of the first version (entitled The Coincidence Caper at that point) to establish that I’d been working on that book for 35 years before publishing it. I also wanted to make sure no one could come around and say, “Oh, you stole that plot/character/scene/location from a novel published in 1980/85/90 (or whatever.)” Just a touch ultraparanoid (like most authors), but I do want credit for being there first, in case anyone finds similarities between UP? and anything published since 1979. I didn’t bother to do this with the two sequels (The Infinite Mistress and Detective, Comics), both of which were written in the 1980s (but unpublished until the 20-teens), or Science Fiction: An Oral History, which was compiled in 1978, since the dates of the interviews are included in the book.
2) Escape from ‘50sville is a novel “written by Casey Bragg,” who is a character in my novel Exemplary Lives of Impossible Men. A sample of the work of each writer in Exemplary Lives is included in that book, except for one by “Bragg.” I simply had no detective story to include as an example of his work. But when I foraged my files for something I could use, I came across a file of notes for 50sville that I’d shelved in the late ‘80s, since there were plot problems I couldn’t solve at that time. But when I read the notes 30 years later, the solutions became immediately apparent, and I decided to write 50sville as a “lost novel” by Casey Bragg. (The backstory becomes clearer if one reads Exemplary Lives.) So I take credit as the editor of this novel but attribute its creation to one of my characters. I love fun author shit like this.
3) Fourplay consists of two three-act plays and three one-act plays, all of which (except one one-act) were produced in the early 1990s by Stage One, a theatrical training and performance organization in San Jose, Calif.
4) A few additional notes: I don’t really count the genre film guides as separate books, as they are collections of the genre entries lifted directly from the two volumes of Killer B’s rather than original writing. (My theory was that if readers were reluctant to purchase the full KB books from an unknown film critic, they might opt for less expensive volumes focused on their specific genre interests. To date, I don’t believe a single copy of any of these genre guides have ever been purchased.) I don’t count The Hive either, since it contains the contents of KB 1 & 2 combined into a single volume rather than being original writing.
5) I’ve also included unpublished/unproduced works.
6) I’m including my film and TV work, since I wrote my appearances.
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