Series

• Emprise (1985)
• Enigma (1986)
• Empery (1987)

• Before the Storm (1996)
• Shield of Lies (1996)
• Tyrant's Test (1996)

Novels

• Alternities (1988) (see review [1])
• The Quiet Pools (1990)
• Exile (1992)
• The Trigger (1999) (with Arthur C. Clarke)
• Vectors (2002)

Young Adult Novels

• Odyssey (1987)
• Thieves of Light (1987) (writing as Michael Hudson)

Selected short stories

• "The Inevitable Conclusion," Amazing Stories (August 1979) [first professional publication]
• "Slac//," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (August 1981)
• "Slippage," Twilight Zone Magazine (August 1982)
• "Murphy's Planet," Analog (July 1983)
• "Menace," Analog (February 1984) [a Trigon Disunity story]
• "When Winter Ends," Fantasy & Science Fiction (July 1985)
• "Lifebomb," Analog (January 1985) [adapted for TV series Tales from the Darkside]
• "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", 1992 (Alternate Presidents)

Anthologies containing stories by Michael P Kube-McDowell

• The 1982 Annual World's Best SF, Donald Wollheim ed. (1982)
• Perpetual Light, Alan Ryan ed. (1982)
• Aliens and Outworlders, Shawna McCarthy ed. (1983)
• The Year's Best Horror Stories XI, Karl Edward Wagner ed. (1983)
• Alien Stars II: After the Flames, Elizabeth Mitchell ed. (1985)
• Alternate Presidents, Mike Resnick ed. (1992)
• Alternate Kennedys, Mike Resnick ed. (1992)
• Alternate Warriors, Mike Resnick ed. (1993)

• Hugo Best Novel nominee (1991) : The Quiet Pools
• Philip K. Dick nominee (1985) : Emprise