Michael Bishop
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Bio: Michael Bishop has published seventeen novels in his twenty-seven
years as a free-lancer, including the Nebula Award-winning No Enemy But
Time (1982); Unicorn Mountain, winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award;
and Brittle Innings (1994), an imaginative study of minor-league
baseball in the Deep South during World War II and winner of the Locus
Award for best fantasy novel. He has written and published two mystery
novels in collaboration with Paul Di Filippo under the joint pseudonym
Philip Lawson, Would It Kill You to Smile? (1998) and Muskrat Courage
(2000).
Bishop's collections of acclaimed short fiction include Blooded on
Arachne (1982), One Winter in Eden (1984), Close Encounters with the
Deity (1986), Emphatically Not SF, Almost (1990), At the City Limits
of Fate (1996), and the recent Golden Gryphon Press gathering of four
novellas, Blue Kansas Sky (2000). Afer its initial publication in The
Missouri Review, his short story "Dogs' Lives" appeared in Best
American Short Stories: 1986 edited by Gail Godwin. His short fiction
has also appeared in The Georgia Review, Playboy, Omni, Asimov's,
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's,
Ellery Queen's, Analog Pulphouse Science Fiction Age and many
original anthologies, including Orbit New Dimensions and
Universe A poetry collection, Time Pieces with a cover by his son
Jamie, appeared in 2000 from Edgewood Press; it features his Rhysling
Award-winning poem "For the Lady of a Physicist."
Bishop is currently writer-in-residence at LaGrange College in
LaGrange, Georgia. He has published essays and reviews; taught in
several fiction-writing workshops, from Haystack at Portland State to
Clarion at Michigan State to Clarion West in Seattle; and edited five
anthologies, including the influential Light Years and Dark (1984),
winner of the Locus Award for best anthology, and three numbers of Nebula
Award volumes (23, 24, and 25). He lives in Pine Mountain, Georgia, with
his wife Jeri, an elementary-school counselor, and is now at work on a
collection of Georgia-based short stories, which he may entitle The Road
Leads Back
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The Balloon [MultiFormat]
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Embittered over the death of his father in the Winnipeg Annexation battle of '09, an American grade-school boy rebels against his peace-loving teacher by sending a secret evil message in his class project 'peace balloon'. 1992
Words: 2831 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Chihuahua Flats [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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A kennel products salesman falls for a sexy Tex-Mex dog breeder, and to prove his love, he must endure the vindictive wrath of her favorite chihuahua. 1995
Words: 4959 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Herding With The Hadrosaurs [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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A pioneering 22nd-century family escapes a decimated Earth by crossing one of the time-slip barriers opened by the impact of an asteroid. When the parents become T. Rex fodder on their first day in the steaming jungles of the late Cretaceous, the 16-year-old son and his 5-year-old brother learn to survive by joining a migrating herd of vegetarian dinosaurs--and avoiding the other humans who have crossed over. 1992
Words: 6402 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Creature On The Couch [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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An Atlanta psychologist agrees to counsel an 8-foot masked recluse who lives and works in a warehouse just outside of town--the morose giant is suspected as the source of nocturnal howlings recently reported in the area. With each secret therapy session, the good doctor is more certainly convinced his patient is indeed the revived, wretched offspring of Victor Frankenstein. 1991
Words: 8653 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Horror
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With a Little Help From Her Friends [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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As a teenager in the late 1960s, Eleanor Riggins was teased by her classmates with a cruel rephrasing of the Beatle song 'Eleanor Rigby'. As an adult missionary in South America, she was kipnapped, raped, and tortured--and had her lips sewn shut with fishing line for playing Beatle tunes on her harmonica. As a recovering torture victim in an Atlanta treatment facility, her "Queen for a Day" wish is issued as a press release--a special request that catches the attention of septuagenarians Paul, G... more info>> 1984
Words: 8572 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Yesterday's Hostage [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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While visiting the museum of medieval torture in Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, Rodgers accidentally stabbed Gisel with his pen--twice. The volatile relationship they cultivated during their brief time together came to a tragic bloody end ... and has haunted him since. Seven years later, Rodgers is back in the little German hotel where it happened, not knowing what to expect or even why he is there, only that he must face his memory of Gisel. 1997
Words: 9820 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
Category: Horror
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The Quickening [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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Imagine waking up in the morning to discover that every human being on Earth has been randomly relocated somewhere else: When Lawson wakes up in Seville, Spain instead of his home town of Lynchburg, Tennessee, he realizes that the chaos of mob rioting has brought modern civilization to its knees--and the same thing must be happening in every other city in the world. He wonders if he will see his wife and daughters ... or the world he once knew ... ever again. 1981 Nebula Award(R) Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 10165 - Reading Time: 29-40 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The House of Compassionate Sharers [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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If Dorian Lorca had not been a high-ranking official in the Glaktik Komm mining corporation, he might have been allowed to die. But when the roof of the mine collapsed, Dorian was physically rebuilt with a neuromechanical prosthetic body ... and the psychological effects of the transformation has created in him a revulsion for the biologic processes of his fellow humans. The unorthodox rehabilitation that will help him re-enter human society includes a visit to an Earth-based establishment that ... more info>> 1977 Ditmar Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 11710 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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No Enemy But Time [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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John Monegal, a.k.a. Joshua Kampa, is torn between two worlds--the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a temporal crossroads wher... more info>> 1982 Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 124000 - Reading Time: 354-496 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Unicorn Mountain [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from a plague of their own, and the alternate world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous. While Libby's Indian ranch hand Sam is stalked by his wife's headless ghost, his estrange... more info>> 1988
Words: 156000 - Reading Time: 445-624 min.
Category: Fantasy
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