Writing Career
According to his long-time proponent Judith Merril, Bunch published over 200 stories and poems prior to his first professional sale, a short story called "Routine Emergency" in the December 1957 edition of If.
He published at least 100 stories in science fiction magazines between 1957 and 1997, and nearly as many in literary magazines. No comprehensive David R. Bunch bibliography is known to exist; Bunch published almost exclusively in little magazines, digest-sized fiction magazines and fanzines, making a complete tally difficult (as the latter, particularly, are poorly indexed, and few indexes cover both the full range of little magazines and their more-commercial peers).
Much of Bunch's small notoriety comes from his inclusion in Harlan Ellison's defining New Wave anthology Dangerous Visions. Of the 32 writers selected, Bunch was the only one to have two stories included: Incident in Moderan and The Escaping. Although Dangerous Visions has been continually in print since 1967, no other Bunch material has seen print (including anthologies) since 1997.
His second collection of stories, Bunch!, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1993.
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