Golden began his professional writing career as a freelance journalist, publishing more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles from in-depth profiles to feature stories to satirical commentary.
However, the program was cancelled before the script could be produced, so Golden rewrote it as the short story "Common Time", which became a semi-finalist in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.
It follows San Francisco Police Inspector Noah Dane, who, while hunting his partner's killer and investigating a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, uncovers a conspiracy that threatens all humanity.
A review in Asimov’s Science Fiction says that, "If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate."
Golden's third novel, Evergreen (Zumaya Otherworlds), is set on a fictional planet populated by majestic forests, ever-changing auroras, and the ursu, a primate-like species that may have once achieved sentience.
[1] In addition to his novels, Golden has sold more than 100 short stories, published across nine countries in publications including Pedestal,[2] Oceans of the Mind,[3] Odyssey, Digital Science Fiction, Postscripts, Penumbra,[4] and Nemonymous.