Michael Bishop (author)
Michael Bishop | |
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Born | Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. | November 12, 1945
Died | November 13, 2023 LaGrange, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 78)
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Education | American South |
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Jeri Whitaker (m. 1969) |
Children | Jamie and Stephanie |
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Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an American author. Over five decades and in more than thirty books, he created what has been called a "body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature."[1]
Biography
Michael Lawson Bishop was born on November 12, 1945, in
Bishop entered the University of Georgia in 1963, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1967, before going on to complete a master's degree in English in 1968.[2] In 1969, he married Jeri Ellis Whitaker of Columbus, Georgia. He taught English (including a course in science fiction) at the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968 to 1972.[4] After his service career, he taught composition and English literature at the University of Georgia in Athens. A son, Jamie, was born in 1971, and a daughter, Stephanie was born in 1973. Bishop left teaching in 1974 to become a full-time writer. In those early years of freelance writing, he would occasionally work as a substitute teacher in the public schools and as a stringer for the Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus.[5]
In 1996, Bishop became writer-in-residence at LaGrange College located near his home (built in the 1890s) in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Bishop taught creative-writing courses and an occasional January interim-term course.[5] He held this position until Spring 2012.
Bishop identified as a Christian.[6]
Michael and Jeri, former counselor at Rosemont Elementary School, had two grandchildren, Annabel and Joel, by their daughter Stephanie. On April 16, 2007, their son
Bishop died from cancer at a hospice facility in LaGrange, Georgia, on November 13, 2023, one day after his 78th birthday.[2][9]
Career overview
Bishop was twice awarded the Nebula: in 1981 for "The Quickening" (Best Novelette) and in 1982 for No Enemy But Time (Best Novel).[10] He also received four Locus Awards and his work has been nominated for numerous Hugo Awards. In July 2009, "The Pile" was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story of 2008.[11]
In 1993,
Bishop published fifteen solo novels, three
Bishop edited seven anthologies, including the Locus Award-winning Light Years and Dark and A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ, published by Thunder's Mouth Press in 2007. His latest anthology, Passing for Human, was co-edited with Steven Utley and published by PS Publishing in 2009.[12]
In addition to his fiction, Bishop published poetry (gathered in two collections) and won the 1979
Bishop and British author
Bishop wrote introductions to books by
Bishop was Guest of Honor at more than a dozen
Early work
Michael Bishop's first published professional fiction sale was the short story "Piñon Fall" to
Anthropological novels
Six of Bishop's first eight novels are set on other worlds (the other two are the part of his UrNu sequence of stories.) Critic and author John Clute writes that "…his early stories and novels display considerable intellectual complexity, and do not shirk the downbeat implications of their anthropological treatment of aliens and alienating milieux…"[16] In his major essay on these early novels, author Ian Watson writes "Michael Bishop is both an exoticist and a moralist. He is sometimes guilty, in the first respect, of a certain over-writing – underlying exotic venue by exotic diction – though the two become more organically integrated as his work progresses; and in the second respect of what one might call an over-scrupulousness on the part of his characters and his perceived attitude to them… These, however, are merely the consequence of aspiration and conscience; and as more of Bishop's work has appeared – and his reputation has grown – he has shown…a more coherent melding of exotic vision, ethics and style."[17]
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
When Bishop's first novel, A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, was published by
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
Bishop's second novel (and first hardcover publication) takes its title from
Stolen Faces
In Stolen Faces (published by
Transfigurations
The
Eyes of Fire
In 1980, Bishop was given the unusual opportunity by editor
Under Heaven's Bridge
When British author Ian Watson read Bishop's A Little Knowledge (1977), he was so fascinated with the alien Cygnusians that he wrote to inquire whether Bishop had plans to write a story about the aliens' home planet.[30] Thus began what Bishop calls "the first ever transatlantic science fiction collaboration", with all correspondence sent by post. Although often labeled as the third book in the series, it is not truly part of the main UrNu sequence. In this novel, published in the UK by Gollancz (1981) and in the US by Ace Books (1982), a Japanese linguist, crewmember of the research starship Heavenbridge, arrives on the home planet of the Kybers (so-called because they're seemingly made of flesh and metal.) She soon learns that the planet's sun will shortly go nova. Brian Stableford writes that the novel when compared with other recent sf collaborations "is a very solid and rewarding piece of work. Its basic premise is original and intelligently worked-out, and the storyline sustains the fascination of the reader throughout. Nevertheless, it seems to me to fall slightly behind the standard set by recent solo works by either of the two authors." He concludes that the "book is worth reading, but it is not an outstanding work in either author's canon."[31] This is Michael Bishop's last novel-length work of other worlds fiction.
UrNu sequence
With "If a Flower Could Eclipse" (1970), his second published story, Bishop began a series of stories set in the Urban Nucleus of Atlanta, one of several domed cities in his future history. Over the next decade he would write seven stories of varying length and one novel to fill in the century-long chronology.[32] Some of the stories first appeared in such prestigious anthology series as Damon Knight's Orbit and Terry Carr's Universe. Four of the stories would subsequently be chosen for best-of-the-year anthologies. (N.B.: According to the author's website A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire and Under Heaven's Bridge are only tangentially connected to the series and thus not part of the sequence proper.[33])
In 2019, all of the works in this series, including two short stories, a novelette, four novellas, and a novel, were revised, sequenced, and published as The City and the Cygnets with an introduction by Kelly Robson, revised chronology and interstitial material, and a new afterword by the author.[33]
A Little Knowledge
The only novel-length work in the UrNu sequence, A Little Knowledge, was published in 1977 by Berkley/Putnam. Chronologically, its events fall just before the last story in the series, "Death Rehearsals". The alien Cygnusians that first appeared in the novella "Allegiances" have been brought into the domed city of Atlanta, causing quite a stir when one of them converts to the state sponsored religion. Mary S. Weinkauf writes "…this is a cleverly done book with many elements of previously admired sf…although it is maneuvered by too carefully contrived coincidences and leaves some questions at the end… [It] is a book to think about long after you put it down."[34] Richard Delap writes that "characters…scurry through this shifting maze as if they are buffeted by the social and political activities of this future world rather than by an author plotting to reach a predestined conclusion. A Little Knowledge is a lively, thought-provoking novel that will exercise your brain."[35]
Catacomb Years
All of the previously published stories in Bishop's UrNu sequence, along with a new novella, "Death Rehearsals", are contained in Catacomb Years, a fix-up published in 1979 by Berkley/Putnam. Bishop also wrote new connecting material and provided a timeline.
Later novels
No Enemy But Time
Bishop's critically acclaimed novel, the
Who Made Stevie Crye?
Bishop followed-up his award-winning science fiction novel with a contemporary novel set in the rural American South. Mary Stevenson ("Stevie") Crye is a young widow with two children struggling to take care of her family as a freelance writer. Her typewriter has started to act up, automatically transcribing her nightmares and subsequently her future. The only American edition of Who Made Stevie Crye? was published in 1984 by the highly esteemed specialty publisher Arkham House under the editorship of Jim Turner. This original edition, as well as the British edition, was photographically illustrated by J. K. Potter. When David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his book Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, he described the novel as "a playful metafiction about the real and the fictitious, about the writer and his or her creation…" and concluded that the novel is "…a gripping and intelligent tale of the supernatural by an author who is adept at avoiding most of the clichés of the horror genre."[40] In his mixed review of the novel, Joe Sanders writes "Sometimes vivid, sometimes prosaic; sometimes involving but often affectless, this is not a novel to like casually. Even when it looks like standard mass-produced pop lit, it actually is nudging us toward something more disturbing and hilarious than we're comfortable imagining. It finally is impressive enough to be uneasily recommended." Sanders' editor, Robert A. Collins, chides the reviewer with the footnote "Ignore Sanders' uneasiness, which obviously stems from his difficulty in pegging the book's genre; Stevie Crye is a marvelous book which transcends genre, as all the best of Bishop does."[41] Author Ian Watson writes "Here is a humane, trickster kaleidoscope questioning a genre and a market, and fiction, and reality too – yet exquisitely spiced with human reality – and delivering the eerie chill of the occult and the illicit, curdling the blood but also warming the heart."[42]
Ancient of Days
Bishop's 1983 Locus Award-winning novella "Her Habiline Husband" forms the first third of Ancient of Days, published in 1985 by Arbor House. It is the story of "Adam", one of the last surviving Homo habilis, who is discovered in contemporary Georgia. In this thematic companion to his novel No Enemy But Time (with an almost inverse conceit), Bishop tackles issues of racial and cultural prejudice, and explores the question of what it means to be human. Locus reviewer Debbie Notkin writes "This is science fiction so precise and so well-thought-out that it reads like history, although little history is so well-written, or cares so much about its characters."[43] Bernard Goodman of Fantasy Review believes that "Bishop's theme of evil inherent in humanity echoes William Golding," and that the novel "in some ways…parallels Golding's Lord of the Flies."[44] Author Samuel R. Delany writes "A wonder-filled novel of ideas—ideas that include questions of race, science, art, and spirituality, among many others. Bishop dramatizes each of these with a panache and a narrative energy that are a delight to read and dazzling to watch."[45] Ancient of Days was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1988.[46]
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas
Originally published as The Secret Ascension by
Unicorn Mountain
In this novel, published by Arbor House/William Morrow in 1988, a man dying of AIDS is taken in by his cousin, a rancher in the Colorado mountains. Award-winning author
Count Geiger's Blues
Xavier Thaxton, protagonist of Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy (
Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls
Bishop's first novel for young people "whatever their age" was published in June 2016 by the Fairwood Press imprint Kudzu Planet Productions. Ten-year-old Joel-Brock Lollis returns home from a baseball game to discover that his parents and sister have been kidnapped, and proceeds to recruit two employees of the local big-box department store in his quest to rescue his family. Reviewer Paul Di Filippo writes "Bishop's prodigious powers of invention serve him well here too. There are many angles to the tale, including an ongoing dialogue between Joel-Brock and his future self. The bulk of the book takes place in the Sporangium [the underground world beneath the department store], and there's always a new miracle or horror around the bend. While the marvels are unpredictable and chaotic, they also exhibit the consistency and inner logic of the best dream worlds."[57]
Selected short fiction
In his introduction to an interview with Michael Bishop, in a reference to Bishop's short story collections, Nick Gevers writes "These volumes, combining the sublimely exotic and the drawlingly familiar, satirical humour and timeless tragedy, constitute one of the finest short fiction oeuvres in SF's history.".[58] Author, critic and sometime collaborator, Paul Di Filippo writes
Since his first short-story sale in 1970, Michael Bishop has revealed a questing spiritual intelligence uniquely concerned with moral conundrums. While his works are often full of both the widescreen spectacles associated with science fiction and the subtle frissons typical of more earthbound fantasy, his focus remains on the engagement of characters with ethical quandaries any reader might encounter in his or her daily life. . . While only occasionally delving into explicitly religious themes, Bishop's personal Christian faith—wide enough to embrace references to Buddhism, Sufism and other creeds—shines through in every tale. . . Acknowledged as one of the genre's finest and most meticulous short-story writers, Bishop boasts six collections to date that function as treasure troves of both science fiction and fantasy. (A seventh lives up to its title, Emphatically Not SF, Almost, by hosting only mainstream tales.)[59]
"The Quickening", Bishop's Nebula Award–winning novelette of 1981, is, according to Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove "…perhaps, a perfect modern fable. A fable about America and her values. For what is being torn down stone by stone is a world spoiled by the trite commercial values of American culture."[60] It's the story of an ordinary American man who awakes to find himself in Seville, Spain. He soon discovers that the population of the whole world has been scattered, creating a potent stew of race, ethnicity, culture and language.
A major theme throughout much of Bishop's work (and especially so in his short fiction) is the role of religion in the daily lives of human beings.[59] When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it. He wrote "…we had a remarkable story that considered, quite fearlessly, an important idea, and we felt that most readers would recognize its legitimacy – if not at once, then upon mature reflection."[61]
When Bishop's story "Dogs' Lives" was reprinted in
Bibliography
Novels
- A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975) -- Nebula Award nominee, 1975[63]
- And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (1976) (later republished as Beneath the Shattered Moons)
- Stolen Faces (1977)
- A Little Knowledge (1977); the first book in the "Urban Nucleus" series
- Catacomb Years (1979) (fix-up); the second book in the "Urban Nucleus" series
- Transfigurations (1979) (expansion of novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi") -- BSFA nominee, 1980[64]
- Eyes of Fire (1980) (a complete revision of his first novel)
- Under Heaven's Bridge (1981, with Ian Watson)
- No Enemy But Time (1982) -- Nebula Award winner, BSFA nominee, 1982;[10] Campbell Award nominee, 1983[39]
- Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984)
- Ancient of Days (1985) -- Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1988[46]
- The Secret Ascension (1987) (later republished with the author's original title: Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas) -- Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1989[50]
- Unicorn Mountain (1988) -- Mythopoeic Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1989[50]
- Count Geiger's Blues (1992)
- Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls (2016)
- Will Keats series[66]
- Lawson, Philip (1998). Would it kill you to smile?. Atlanta: Longstreet.
- — (2000). Muskrat courage.
Short fiction
Collections
- Blooded on Arachne (1982), includes the novellas "The White Otters of Childhood" and "On the Street of the Serpents", nine stories and two poems from 1970–1978
- One Winter in Eden (1984), includes twelve stories from 1978-1983 with an introduction by Thomas M. Disch
- Close Encounters With the Deity (1986), includes the novella "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" and thirteen stories from 1979-1986 with an introduction by Isaac Asimov
- Emphatically Not SF, Almost (1990), includes nine mainstream stories from 1982–1987
- At the City Limits of Fate (1996), includes fifteen stories from 1982–1996 -- Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1996[67]
- Blue Kansas Sky (2000), four novellas from 1973–2000, including the first publication of the title story
- Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories (2003), a compilation of previously uncollected stories from 1971–2003
- The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective (2012), a collection of 25 stories and novellas from 1970–2009, 8 of which are previously uncollected
- Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories (2017), includes fifteen stories, mostly mainstream and uncollected, from 1982-2017; winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for short story collection[68]
- The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales of Calamity, Pilgrimage, and Atonement (2018), includes three novellas from 1983-2012, and the short novel And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (1976)
- The City and the Cygnets (2019), an omnibus publication of all of the works in the Urnu Sequence, originally published 1971-1979
- A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals (2021), includes 50 short stories and poems from 1971-2021, many of which were previously uncollected[69]
Anthologies
- Changes (1983, with Ian Watson)
- Light Years and Dark (1984) (Locus Award winner)
- Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
- Nebula Awards 24 (1990)
- Nebula Awards 25 (1991)
- A Cross of Centuries (2007)
- Passing for Human (2009, with Steven Utley)
Notable stories
- "Death and Designation Among the Asadi (1973), novella (Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee)
- "The White Otters of Childhood" (1973), novella (Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee)
- "Cathadonian Odyssey" (1974) (Hugo Award nominee)
- "On the Street of the Serpents" (1974), novella (Nebula Award nominee)
- "Rogue Tomato" (1975) (Hugo Award nominee)
- "The Samurai and the Willows" (1976), novella (Locus Award winner; Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee)
- "The House of Compassionate Sharers", novella (1977)
- "Old Folks at Home", novella (1978)
- "Within the Walls of Tyre" (1978), novelette (World Fantasy Award nominee)
- "Vernalfest Morning" (1978) (Nebula Award nominee)
- "Seasons of Belief" (1979) (dramatized on Tales from the Darkside)
- "Cold War Orphans" (1980), novella
- "The Quickening" (1981), novelette (Nebula Award winner)
- "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" (1983), novella (Nebula Award nominee)
- "Her Habiline Husband" (1983), novella (Locus Award winner and Nebula Award nominee)
- "The Monkey's Bride" (1983) (World Fantasy Award nominee)
- "Dogs' Lives" (1984) (reprinted in Best American Short Stories1985)
- "A Gift from the GrayLanders" (1985), novelette (Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee)
- "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", novelette (1987)
- Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana (1989), novella (World Fantasy Award nominee) (published as a chapbook)
- "The Ommatidium Miniatures" (1989) (Nebula Award nominee)
- "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" (1991) (finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
- "Cri de Coeur" (1994), novella (Hugo Award nominee)
- "I, Iscariot" (1995), novelette (Theodore Sturgeon Award nominee)
- "Among the Handlers" (1996), novella
- "Sequel on Skorpiós" (1998)
- "Blue Kansas Sky" (2000), novella (World Fantasy Award nominee)
- "The Sacerdotal Owl" (2003), novelette
- "The Door Gunner" (2003), novelette (Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award winner)
- "The Road Leads Back" (2003)
- "Bears Discover Smut" (2005) (Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award winner and British Science Fiction Association awardnominee)
- "Vinegar Peace; or, The Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage" (2008), novelette (Nebula Award nominee)
- "The Pile" (2008) (Shirley Jackson Award winner)
- "The City Quiet as Death" (2009, with Steven Utley)
- "Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow'" (2012), novella (Selected by Gardner Dozois for his "Best of the Year" annual anthology)
- "Rattlesnakes and Men" (2015)
- "Gale Strang" (2017), novelette Nebula Award nominee
- "Yahweh's Hour" (2021)
Poetry
Collections
- Windows and Mirrors (1977)
- Time Pieces (1998)[70]
Non-fiction
- A Reverie for Mister Ray (2005)
Interviews
- "The Prophetic World of Michael Bishop", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, April 4, 1976: 8-10, 20 (interviewed by Phil Garner)
- "Michael Bishop: No Two Alike", Locus #335, December 1988: 1, 65-66 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)
- "Interview with Michael Bishop", Science Fiction Review #1, Spring 1990: 42-43, 102 (interviewed by Elton Elliott)
- "Michael Bishop: Subduing the Serpent", Locus #426, July 1996: 4-5, 73-74 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)
- "In Prayer the Whisper of the Void", October 2000 (interviewed by Nick Gevers, reprinted in The New York Review of Science Fiction #172, December 2002)
- "Michael Bishop: The Blessing and the Curse", Locus #526, November 2004: 8-9, 76-77 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)
- An Interview with Michael Bishop (interviewed by Kilian Melloy)
- Teamwork: Bishop, Crowther, Hutchins et al. (interviewed by Sandy Auden)
- An Interview with Michael Bishop, June 2010 (interviewed by Francesco Troccoli)
References
- ^ Cox, F. Brett and Andy Duncan, eds., Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, New York: Tor Books, 2004: 223
- ^ a b c d Risen, Clay (December 12, 2023). "Michael Bishop, Genre-Busting Writer Known for Science Fiction, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "Military Brat." Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 26. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
- ISSN 1052-9438.
- ^ a b c d SFRA 2009 Program Book, Atlanta GA: Science Fiction Research Association Conference, 2009: 15
- ^ Melloy, Killian (2003). "An interview with Michael Bishop". Infinity Plus. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
Over time, given Jeri's daily presence and the quiet influence of my equally devout grandmother (who died last spring at 103), and after immersing myself in New Testament study and a variety of theological texts, I came back to the faith of my childhood, albeit not without recurrent hiccups, glitches, and balks.
- ^ Fox News (April 20, 2007). "Victims of Virginia Tech Shooting".
- ^ Miller, Greg; Fausset, Richard (April 17, 2007). "Popular teacher among the first victims". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
- ^ "Michael Bishop (1945–2023)". Locus. November 13, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "1982 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ "2008 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Archived from the original on July 17, 2009. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Hutchins, Michael H. "The Michael Bishop Bibliography". Retrieved July 18, 2009.
- ^ Bishop, Michael (August 30, 2013). "Italcon 39: Before, During, and After: A Personal Perspective". Retrieved October 23, 2013.
- ^ "Series: Glaktik Komm". ISFDB. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "First Novel, Seventh Novel." A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire. Worcester Park: Kerosina, 1989. 11-12.
- ^ a b Clute, John. "Bishop, Michael." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 126.
- Foundation19. Dagenham UK: SF Foundation, North East London Polytechnic. June 1980: 5.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Aug. 1975: 49.
- ^ "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- ^ Lupoff, Richard A. "Richard Lupoff's Book Week." Algol 27, Winter 1976-1977: 32
- ^ Justice, Keith L. "Paperbacks." Delap's F&SF Review, Dragonwood Press. Feb 1978: 27.
- Foundation19. Dagenham UK: SF Foundation, North East London Polytechnic. June 1980: 10.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Oct. 1977: 36-37.
- Foundation19. Dagenham UK: SF Foundation, North East London Polytechnic. June 1980: 73.
- ^ Sturgeon, Theodore. "Other Dimensions: Books." Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine. New York: TZ Publications. June 1981: 8.
- ^ "1980 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "First Novel, Seventh Novel." A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire. Worcester Park: Kerosina, 1989. 16.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "First Novel, Seventh Novel." A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire. Worcester Park: Kerosina, 1989. 8.
- ^ Frazier, Robert. "Reviews, books, etc." Thrust 15. Gaithersburg MD: Thrust Publications. Summer 1980: 46.
- ^ Langford, David. "An Interview with Ian Watson." Science Fiction Review 42. Portland OR: Richard E. Geis. Feb. 1982: 8.
- Foundation22. Dagenham UK: SF Foundation, North East London Polytechnic. June 1981: 98.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "Catacomb Years: A Chronology." Catacomb Years, New York: Berkley/Putnam. Jan. 1979: 11.
- ^ a b "The Official Michael Bishop Website". Retrieved September 9, 2009.
- ^ Weinkauf, Mary S. "Fiction." Delap's F&SF Review, Dragonwood Press. Feb 1978: 7.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Oct. 1977: 37.
- Disch, Thomas M."Other Dimensions: Books." Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1982: 8.
- ^ Easton, Tom. "The Reference Library." Analog: Science Fiction/Science Fact. New York: Davis Publications. Sep. 1982: 164.
- ^ Pringle, David. "No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop." Science Fiction: The One Hundred Best Novels. New York: Carroll & Graff, 1985. 215.
- ^ a b "1983 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ Pringle, David. "Who Made Stevie Crye? by Michael Bishop." Modern Fantasy: The One Hundred Best Novels. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989. 231-2.
- ^ Sanders, Joe. "Reviews." Fantasy Review 74. Boca Raton FL: Florida Atlantic University. Dec. 1984: 22.
- ^ Watson, Ian. "Michael Bishop: Who Made Stevie Crye?." Horror: 100 Best Books. Revised ed. London: New English Library, 1992. 277.
- ^ Notkin, Debbie. "Locus Looks at More Books." Locus, May 1985: 15.
- ^ Goodman, Bernard. "News and Reviews." Fantasy Review 80, June 1985: 16.
- ^ Delany, Samuel R. [back cover blurb]. Ancient of Days. Bonney Lake WA: Fairwood Press, October 2013.
- ^ a b "1988 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Feb. 1988: 19.
- ^ Whitmore, Tom. "Locus Looks at More Books." Locus. Oakland CA: Locus Publications. Nov. 1987: 21.
- New York Times Book Review. The New York Times. February 7, 1988: 22.
- ^ a b c d "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ Kress, Nancy. [dustjacket quote] Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop, New York: Arbor House/Morrow, 1988
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep. 1988: 33.
- ^ Clute, John. "SF Novels of the Year." The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two. Ed. David S. Garnett. London: Futura Books, 1989. 310.
- ^ Easton, Tom. "The Reference Library." Analog: Science Fiction/Science Fact. New York: Davis Publications. Nov. 1992: 165.
- ^ Miller, Faren. "Locus Looks at Books." Locus. Oakland CA: Locus Publications. Apr 1992: 17.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Mar. 1993: 52.
- ^ "Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael Bishop". Locus Online. June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ Gevers, Nick. "In Prayer the Whisper of the Void". Retrieved September 9, 2009.
- ^ a b Di Filippo, Paul. "Michael Bishop." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Volume One (Richard Bleiler, ed.) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (Thomson/Gale). 2003: 79-88.
- Trillion Year Spree. London: Paladin, 1988. 450.
- ^ Asimov, Isaac. "Editorial." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. New York: Davis Publications. June 1984: 10.
- ^ Bishop, Michael. "Letter." Last Deadloss Visions. Christopher Priest. [self-published pamphlet], 1987.
- ^ "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ "1980 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ "1995 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ Philip Lawson is a pseudonym for Di Filippo and Bishop
- ^ "1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ "54th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2018". Georgia Writers Association. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
- ^ "A Few Last Words for the Late Immortal". Fairwood Press. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
- ^ Includes most of the selections from Windows and Mirrors
External links
- Official website
- Michael Bishop at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Michael Bishop at IMDb
- Review of A Reverie for Mister Ray at Infinity plus
- Blue Kansas Sky at Golden Gryphon Press
- Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories at Golden Gryphon Press
- Michael and Jeri Bishop discuss their son's murder on ABC News (August 21, 2007)
- Michael Bishop at Worlds Without End
- Philip Lawson at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records