His novel, Headcrash, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US.

The publisher decided not to release the novel, causing several years of legal battles over the rights to the book.

What the publisher wanted me to write was a "Frazetta cover" ending; you know, the hero, center stage, with a mighty weapon in his hands, a cowering half-naked babe at his feet, and the blood-smeared corpses of his many enemies piled high all around.

"[3] Bruce Bethke won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012 for SF original paperback published in the US.

[4][5] Bethke is currently creator and Editor in Chief of the monthly anthology series "Stupefying Stories" which he began publishing in 2012.