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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%82%D9%81_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)" title="مایکل اسقف (یازیچی) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مایکل اسقف (یازیچی)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop_(Schriftsteller)" title="Michael Bishop (Schriftsteller) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Michael Bishop (Schriftsteller)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Michael Bishop" 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Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%97" title="マイクル・ビショップ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マイクル・ビショップ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop_(autor)" title="Michael Bishop (autor) – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Michael Bishop (autor)" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop" title="Michael Bishop – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Michael Bishop" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop_(f%C3%B6rfattare)" title="Michael Bishop (författare) – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Michael Bishop (författare)" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li 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style="display:none">(2023-11-13)</span> (aged&#160;78)<br /><a href="/wiki/LaGrange,_Georgia" title="LaGrange, Georgia">LaGrange, Georgia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Novelist</li> <li>short story writer</li> <li>essayist</li> <li>poet</li> <li>teacher</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1970–2021</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Science fiction, fantasy, horror, <a href="/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a>, poetry</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">Anthropology</a>, religion, <a href="/wiki/American_South" class="mw-redirect" title="American South">American South</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Jeri Whitaker</div>&#32;<div style="display:inline-block;">&#8203;</div>&#40;<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&#160;1969&#41;<wbr />&#8203;</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Bishop" title="Jamie Bishop">Jamie</a> and Stephanie</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://michaelbishop-writer.com">michaelbishop-writer<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael Lawson Bishop</b> (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."<sup id="cite_ref-Crossroads_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossroads-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Michael Lawson Bishop was born on November 12, 1945, in <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska" title="Lincoln, Nebraska">Lincoln, Nebraska</a>, the son of Leotis "Lee" Bishop and Maxine ("Mac") Elaine Matison.<sup id="cite_ref-Risen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Risen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His parents met in the summer of 1942 when his father, a recent enlistee of the Army Air Corps, was stationed in Lincoln. Bishop's childhood was the peripatetic life of a <a href="/wiki/Military_brat" title="Military brat">military brat</a>. He went to kindergarten in Tokyo, Japan, and he spent his senior year of high school in <a href="/wiki/Seville,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Seville, Spain">Seville, Spain</a>. His parents divorced in 1951, and Bishop spent summers wherever his father happened to be based.<sup id="cite_ref-Military_Brat_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Military_Brat-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop entered the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a> in 1963, receiving his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor&#39;s degree">bachelor's degree</a> in 1967, before going on to complete a master's degree in English in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-Risen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Risen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1969, he married Jeri Ellis Whitaker of Columbus, Georgia. He taught English (including a course in science fiction) at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Academy_Preparatory_School" title="United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School">United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Springs,_Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado">Colorado Springs</a> from 1968 to 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After his service career, he taught composition and English literature at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Athens,_Georgia" title="Athens, Georgia">Athens</a>. A son, <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Bishop" title="Jamie Bishop">Jamie</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Ledger-Enquirer" title="Ledger-Enquirer">Ledger-Enquirer</a> in <a href="/wiki/Columbus,_Georgia" title="Columbus, Georgia">Columbus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SFRA2009_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFRA2009-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1996, Bishop became writer-in-residence at <a href="/wiki/LaGrange_College" title="LaGrange College">LaGrange College</a> located near his home (built in the 1890s) in <a href="/wiki/Pine_Mountain,_Harris_County,_Georgia" title="Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia">Pine Mountain, Georgia</a>. Bishop taught creative-writing courses and an occasional January interim-term course.<sup id="cite_ref-SFRA2009_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFRA2009-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He held this position until Spring 2012. </p><p>Bishop identified as a Christian.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Bishop" title="Jamie Bishop">Jamie</a>, a lecturer in German and I.T. Studies, became one of the victims of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting" title="Virginia Tech shooting">Virginia Tech shooting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FoxNews_Victims_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FoxNews_Victims-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LAtimes_Victims_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAtimes_Victims-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bishop and his wife subsequently advocated for stricter <a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun laws in the United States">gun laws in the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Risen_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Risen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop died from cancer at a hospice facility in <a href="/wiki/LaGrange,_Georgia" title="LaGrange, Georgia">LaGrange, Georgia</a>, on November 13, 2023, one day after his 78th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-Risen_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Risen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-locusObit_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-locusObit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_overview">Career overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Career overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bishop was twice awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a>: in 1981 for "<a href="/wiki/The_Quickening_(short_story)" title="The Quickening (short story)">The Quickening</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novelette" title="Nebula Award for Best Novelette">Best Novelette</a>) and in 1982 for <i><a href="/wiki/No_Enemy_But_Time" title="No Enemy But Time">No Enemy But Time</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Nebula Award for Best Novel">Best Novel</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1982_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1982-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also received four <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Awards</a> and his work has been nominated for numerous <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Awards</a>. In July 2009, "The Pile" was the recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Jackson_Award" title="Shirley Jackson Award">Shirley Jackson Award</a> for Best Short Story of 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-ShirleyJacksonAwards2008_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ShirleyJacksonAwards2008-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1993, <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> optioned his novel <i><a href="/wiki/Brittle_Innings" title="Brittle Innings">Brittle Innings</a></i> for a film and bought the rights outright in 1995. (To date, no film has been made.)<sup id="cite_ref-SFRA2009_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFRA2009-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop published fifteen solo novels, three <a href="/wiki/Collaborative_fiction" title="Collaborative fiction">collaborative novels</a>, and more than 150 pieces of short fiction, most of which have been gathered into eleven collections. A major career retrospective collection, <i>The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy</i> was published in February 2012 by <a href="/wiki/Subterranean_Press" title="Subterranean Press">Subterranean Press</a>. His stories have appeared in such publications as <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_Mystery_Magazine" title="Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s Mystery Magazine">Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ellery_Queen%27s_Mystery_Magazine" title="Ellery Queen&#39;s Mystery Magazine">Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaac Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction Magazine">Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Magazine_of_Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction">Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a></i>, the <i>Missouri Review</i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Review" title="Indiana Review">Indiana Review</a></i>, the <i>Chattahoochee Review</i>, the <i>Georgia Review</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Omni_(magazine)" title="Omni (magazine)">Omni</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Interzone_(magazine)" title="Interzone (magazine)">Interzone</a></i>. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopBibliography_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopBibliography-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop edited seven anthologies, including the <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a>-winning <i>Light Years and Dark</i> and <i>A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ</i>, published by Thunder's Mouth Press in 2007. His latest anthology, <i>Passing for Human</i>, was co-edited with <a href="/wiki/Steven_Utley" title="Steven Utley">Steven Utley</a> and published by <a href="/wiki/PS_Publishing" title="PS Publishing">PS Publishing</a> in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopBibliography_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopBibliography-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to his fiction, Bishop published poetry (gathered in two collections) and won the 1979 <a href="/wiki/Rhysling_Award" title="Rhysling Award">Rhysling Award</a> for his poem "For the Lady of a Physicist." He also had essays and reviews published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlanta_Journal-Constitution" title="The Atlanta Journal-Constitution">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Columbus_Ledger-Enquirer" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbus Ledger-Enquirer">Columbus Ledger-Enquirer</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Omni_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Omni Magazine">Omni Magazine</a></i>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Science Fiction">New York Review of Science Fiction</a></i>. A collection of his nonfiction, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Reverie_for_Mister_Ray" title="A Reverie for Mister Ray">A Reverie for Mister Ray</a></i>, was published in 2005 by <a href="/wiki/PS_Publishing" title="PS Publishing">PS Publishing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopBibliography_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopBibliography-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop and British author <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a> collaborated on a novel set in the universe of one of Bishop's earlier works. He also wrote two mystery novels with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Di_Filippo" title="Paul Di Filippo">Paul Di Filippo</a>, under the joint pseudonym <a href="/wiki/Philip_Lawson_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Lawson (author)">Philip Lawson</a>. Bishop's collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Steven_Utley" title="Steven Utley">Steven Utley</a>, the short story "The City Quiet as Death", was published in June 2009 on Tor.com.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopBibliography_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopBibliography-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop wrote introductions to books by <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree, Jr.">James Tiptree, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Sargent" title="Pamela Sargent">Pamela Sargent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" title="Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Shelley" title="Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Duncan_(writer)" title="Andy Duncan (writer)">Andy Duncan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Di_Filippo" title="Paul Di Filippo">Paul Di Filippo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Holland_Rogers" title="Bruce Holland Rogers">Bruce Holland Rogers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rhys_Hughes" title="Rhys Hughes">Rhys Hughes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopBibliography_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopBibliography-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bishop was Guest of Honor at more than a dozen <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_conventions" class="mw-redirect" title="Science fiction conventions">science fiction conventions</a> including the 1977 <a href="/wiki/DeepSouthCon" title="DeepSouthCon">DeepSouthCon</a>, the 1978 <a href="/wiki/Philcon" title="Philcon">Philcon</a>, the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Readercon" title="Readercon">Readercon</a>, the 1992 <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Convention" title="World Fantasy Convention">World Fantasy Convention</a>, the 1999 <a href="/wiki/World_Horror_Convention" title="World Horror Convention">World Horror Convention</a>, the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Norwescon" title="Norwescon">Norwescon</a>, the 2009 <a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Research_Association" title="Science Fiction Research Association">Science Fiction Research Association</a> Conference, and Special Guest at the 2010 <a href="/wiki/ArmadilloCon" title="ArmadilloCon">ArmadilloCon</a>. He was also one of the organizers of the three <i>Slipstreaming in the Arts</i> conferences (1997–2001). In 2001, he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from <a href="/wiki/LaGrange_College" title="LaGrange College">LaGrange College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SFRA2009_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFRA2009-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 2013, he was the Guest of Honor at Italcon 39, the Italian national convention of fantastic literature.<sup id="cite_ref-Italcon_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Italcon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_work">Early work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Early work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Michael Bishop's first published professional fiction sale was the short story "Piñon Fall" to <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction" title="Galaxy Science Fiction">Galaxy Science Fiction</a> in 1970. It was shortly followed by "If a Flower Could Eclipse", the first story in his <a href="#Urnu_sequence">Urnu sequence</a>, Bishop's longest and most significant series of related stories. His shorter series, Glaktik Komm, in the subgenre of anthropological science fiction, consists of two short stories and two novels published in the late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While <i><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction" title="Galaxy Science Fiction">Galaxy Science Fiction</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/If_(magazine)" title="If (magazine)">If</a></i> magazines were publishing his science-fiction stories, the <i><a href="/wiki/Magazine_of_Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction">Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a></i> became Bishop's venue for his fantasy/horror stories. This early period is also noted for a number of high-profile novellas: in 1973 "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" and "The White Otters of Childhood" appeared on the shortlist ballots for both the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a> awards. The 1974 <a href="/wiki/Gonzo_journalism" title="Gonzo journalism">gonzo</a> novella "On the Street of the Serpents" (including a character named "Michael Bishop") first appeared in an anthology of original stories. It would eventually lead to a contract for his <a href="/wiki/Debut_novel" title="Debut novel">first novel</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ballantine_Books" title="Ballantine Books">Ballantine Books</a>, the anthology's publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-FirstNovel_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FirstNovel-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anthropological_novels">Anthropological novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Anthropological novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute</a> 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…"<sup id="cite_ref-CluteEncSF_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CluteEncSF-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his major essay on these early novels, author <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a> writes "Michael Bishop is both an exoticist and a moralist. He is sometimes guilty, in the first respect, of a certain over-writing&#160;– underlying exotic venue by exotic diction&#160;– 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."<sup id="cite_ref-WatsonFoundation19_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WatsonFoundation19-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A_Funeral_for_the_Eyes_of_Fire"><i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Bishop's first novel, <i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i>, was published by <a href="/wiki/Ballantine_Books" title="Ballantine Books">Ballantine Books</a> in 1975, critics <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Panshin" title="Alexei Panshin">Alexei and Cory Panshin</a> wrote that the novel "shows an interest in the anthropological comparable to <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> and a sense of the alien comparable to <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree, Jr.">James Tiptree, Jr.</a> But it is an individual work, Bishop's own and no one else's. <i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i> is highly imperfect. It is a pied mirror, everywhere reflecting brilliantly bright, everywhere cloudy. It leads the eyes inward, and ultimately reveals nothing clearly. Even so, it is the most impressive first novel so far seen in the Seventies." They go on to declare that "Bishop is one of the new and still rare breed of science fiction writer attempting to produce art without rejecting the pulp vigor that is science fiction's continuing strengths."<sup id="cite_ref-PanshinFSF08/75_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PanshinFSF08/75-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The novel was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1975_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1975-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="And_Strange_at_Ecbatan_the_Trees"><i>And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bishop's second novel (and first hardcover publication) takes its title from <a href="/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish" title="Archibald MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish's</a> poem "You, Andrew Marvell". Published by <a href="/wiki/Harper_%26_Row" class="mw-redirect" title="Harper &amp; Row">Harper &amp; Row</a> in 1976, it is set in the same far future as his <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a>- and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a>-nominated novella "The White Otters of Childhood." There are two surviving races, both genetically engineered by a third, the Parfects, who also manipulate the ongoing struggle between them. <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Lupoff" title="Richard A. Lupoff">Richard A. Lupoff</a> praised the novel lavishly, calling it "An eccentric, accomplished performance; and impressive and admirable one . . . a delightful book, a new treatment of a somewhat familiar theme, but crafted into a strange shape and told with such fineness of presence and such impressive language that it hardly matters what the book is about."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Reviewer Keith L. Justice writes "If Bishop never published another word of fiction, he would still have to be considered a milestone writer in the development of contemporary sf… Writers such as <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Le Guin</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree, Jr.">Tiptree</a>, and Bishop are developing a whole new generation of artistry."<sup id="cite_ref-JusticeDelap02/78_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JusticeDelap02/78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Stolen_Faces"><i>Stolen Faces</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Stolen Faces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i>Stolen Faces</i> (published by <a href="/wiki/Harper_%26_Row" class="mw-redirect" title="Harper &amp; Row">Harper &amp; Row</a> in 1977), a recently demoted commissioner has been reassigned to a colony planet to govern a compound which isolates the sufferers of a leprosy-like disease. <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a> writes that the novel is "about deceit, maskedness and discovery of self-truth…a harsh, arctic tale by contrast with [<i>And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees</i>] where the terrain may be stark but there is a mannered elegance in the tone of voice; it is a tale executed in an argot-ritualistic style."<sup id="cite_ref-WatsonFoundation19-2_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WatsonFoundation19-2-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Critic <a href="/wiki/Richard_Delap" title="Richard Delap">Richard Delap</a> writes "There is an abundance of exploitable elements in Bishop's story, so it is astonishing to see how the author keeps them under strict rein, always with a highly keyed visual sense but also with a literary flair that says more by implication than by direct description. The writing itself is crafted with a precision that becomes obvious only as the novel progresses."<sup id="cite_ref-DelapFSF10/775_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DelapFSF10/775-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Transfigurations"><i>Transfigurations</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Transfigurations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a>- and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a>-nominated novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" forms the first part of <i><a href="/wiki/Transfigurations_(novel)" title="Transfigurations (novel)">Transfigurations</a></i>, a novel published in 1979 by <a href="/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" title="G. P. Putnam&#39;s Sons">Berkley Putnam</a>. The story continues when the daughter of the anthropologist who studied the Asadi, a hominid-like race on the planet Bosk'veld, investigates his disappearance. In the journal <i><a href="/wiki/Foundation_-_The_International_Review_of_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction">Foundation</a></i>, John Clute writes that the novel is "a fever of explanation. Hypothesis builds on hypothesis [as more and more data is added to the original observations], and much of the resulting construction is beautifully crafted, almost hallucinatory it is so plausible. But of course these explanations are never enough – and the intellectual tact by which Bishop makes them almost <i>but not quite</i> fit the data they are meant to make transparent is perhaps the strongest part of this extremely dense and carefully thought-through novel."<sup id="cite_ref-CluteFoundation19_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CluteFoundation19-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a> writes "Michael Bishop's <i>Transfigurations</i> is as complex, as carefully thought-out, and as compelling an sf novel as you'll find anywhere, ever."<sup id="cite_ref-SturgeonTZ_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SturgeonTZ-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Transfigurations</i> was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1980_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1980-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eyes_of_Fire"><i>Eyes of Fire</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Eyes of Fire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1980, Bishop was given the unusual opportunity by editor <a href="/wiki/David_Hartwell" class="mw-redirect" title="David Hartwell">David Hartwell</a> to rewrite his first novel. This completely revised version (or, as Bishop called it, wholesale <i>reimagining</i><sup id="cite_ref-BishopFFEFKero1_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BishopFFEFKero1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) was published by <a href="/wiki/Pocket_Books" title="Pocket Books">Pocket Books</a> as <i>Eyes of Fire</i>. In his introduction to the British hardcover edition of the revised work, Bishop writes "…I still feel affection for the original version of <i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i>, its callow narrator, and a few of the flavorful images and metaphors with which I salted the text. But I also recognize the fumble-fingeredness and immaturity of that initial version."<sup id="cite_ref-BishopFFEFKero2_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BishopFFEFKero2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Very few publications (mostly <a href="/wiki/Fanzines" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanzines">fanzines</a>) took enough notice to review the new version. (<a href="/wiki/Pocket_Books" title="Pocket Books">Pocket Books</a> even used the artwork of the original publisher's edition.) In one of the rare reviews, Robert Frazier writes "In almost every detail, <i>Eyes of Fire</i> is crafted intelligently… It is not the type of sf that pushes to the heights of wonder. Instead it is a probing, disturbing, moving reflection on humanity… Bishop's skill is at plumbing to the depths, and his basic tool is a two-way glass. [Other novels this year] will have to go a long distance to surpass this effort."<sup id="cite_ref-FrazierThrust15_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FrazierThrust15-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Under_Heaven's_Bridge"><span id="Under_Heaven.27s_Bridge"></span><i>Under Heaven's Bridge</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Under Heaven&#039;s Bridge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When British author <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a> read Bishop's <i>A Little Knowledge</i> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-WatsonSFR42_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WatsonSFR42-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thus began what Bishop calls "the first ever <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transatlantic" class="extiw" title="wikt:transatlantic">transatlantic</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" title="Victor Gollancz Ltd">Gollancz</a> (1981) and in the US by <a href="/wiki/Ace_Books" title="Ace Books">Ace Books</a> (1982), a Japanese linguist, crewmember of the research starship <i>Heavenbridge</i>, 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. <a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Brian Stableford</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordFoundation22_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordFoundation22-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This is Michael Bishop's last novel-length work of other worlds fiction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="UrNu_sequence">UrNu sequence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: UrNu sequence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-UrNu_Chronology_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UrNu_Chronology-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of the stories first appeared in such prestigious anthology series as <a href="/wiki/Damon_Knight" title="Damon Knight">Damon Knight's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Orbit_(anthology_series)" title="Orbit (anthology series)">Orbit</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Carr" title="Terry Carr">Terry Carr's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Universe_(anthology_series)" title="Universe (anthology series)">Universe</a></i>. Four of the stories would subsequently be chosen for best-of-the-year anthologies. (N.B.: According to the author's website <i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i> and <i>Under Heaven's Bridge</i> are only tangentially connected to the series and thus not part of the sequence proper.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopWebsite_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopWebsite-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) </p><p>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 <i>The City and the Cygnets</i> with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Robson" title="Kelly Robson">Kelly Robson</a>, revised chronology and interstitial material, and a new afterword by the author.<sup id="cite_ref-MichaelBishopWebsite_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MichaelBishopWebsite-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A_Little_Knowledge"><i>A Little Knowledge</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: A Little Knowledge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The only novel-length work in the UrNu sequence, <i>A Little Knowledge</i>, was published in 1977 by <a href="/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" title="G. P. Putnam&#39;s Sons">Berkley/Putnam</a>. 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."<sup id="cite_ref-WeinkaufDelap02/78_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WeinkaufDelap02/78-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 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. <i>A Little Knowledge</i> is a lively, thought-provoking novel that will exercise your brain."<sup id="cite_ref-DelapFSF10/77_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DelapFSF10/77-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Catacomb_Years"><i>Catacomb Years</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Catacomb Years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Catacomb_Years" title="Catacomb Years">Catacomb Years</a></div> <p>All of the previously published stories in Bishop's UrNu sequence, along with a new novella, "Death Rehearsals", are contained in <i>Catacomb Years</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Fix-up" title="Fix-up">fix-up</a> published in 1979 by <a href="/wiki/G._P._Putnam%27s_Sons" title="G. P. Putnam&#39;s Sons">Berkley/Putnam</a>. Bishop also wrote new connecting material and provided a timeline. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_novels">Later novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Later novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="No_Enemy_But_Time"><i>No Enemy But Time</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: No Enemy But Time"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/No_Enemy_But_Time" title="No Enemy But Time">No Enemy But Time</a></div> <p>Bishop's critically acclaimed novel, the <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1982_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1982-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> winning <i>No Enemy But Time</i>, was published in 1982 by <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon &amp; Schuster">Simon &amp; Schuster</a> under <a href="/wiki/David_Hartwell" class="mw-redirect" title="David Hartwell">David Hartwell</a>'s editorship and the <a href="/wiki/Timescape_Books" title="Timescape Books">Timescape</a> imprint. <a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute</a> writes that the novel "intensified the movement of [Bishop's] imagination to a local habitat, and for the first time introduced a protagonist of sufficient racial (and mental) complexity to carry a storyline immured in the particular and haunted by the exotic."<sup id="cite_ref-CluteEncSF_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CluteEncSF-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this sophisticated twist on the traditional time-travel story, a modern-day African-American man is recruited by the military for his special ability to "dream" himself into the <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> era where he becomes involved with a tribe of <a href="/wiki/Habiline" class="mw-redirect" title="Habiline">habilines</a>. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Disch" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Disch">Thomas Disch</a> writes "Bishop is determined to write about human goodness without resorting to the mock heroics of formula adventure stories. There are no villains in the book, even among the habilines. The central and absorbing drama of the book is the hero's growing love for the habiline, Helen. Looming behind this love story is a larger theme, the formation across the entire span of history of the Family of Man, a phrase that becomes, as the novel ripens to its conclusion, no mere liberal piety but a fully realized dramatic affirmation."<sup id="cite_ref-DischTZ06/82_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DischTZ06/82-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In one of the few mixed reviews, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Easton" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Easton">Tom Easton</a> writes that "Kampa [the protagonist] is the only character who does come alive. All others are at least stiff. Some are outright caricatures. The book is not faultless, but it <i>is</i> overall a pleasure to read… Its treatment of anthropology is so effective that the few flaws are easily overlooked."<sup id="cite_ref-EastonAnalog09/82_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EastonAnalog09/82-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Editor and critic <a href="/wiki/David_Pringle" title="David Pringle">David Pringle</a> writes that the novel "is narrated in an oddly detached, quizzical and dryly humorous manner… The paleo-anthropological details are superbly imagined, the African landscapes beautifully described, yet the final effect is one of coolness, distance… Michael Bishop's prose style is learned, witty, Latinate, although salted with deliberately-placed colloquialisms and low jokes. This book is the work of a talented and serious writer."<sup id="cite_ref-PringleSF100_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PringleSF100-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition to winning the Nebula Award,<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1982_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1982-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the novel was nominated for both the John W. Campbell Memorial<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1983_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1983-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and British Science Fiction<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1982_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1982-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Awards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Who_Made_Stevie_Crye?"><span id="Who_Made_Stevie_Crye.3F"></span><i>Who Made Stevie Crye?</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Who Made Stevie Crye?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Who_Made_Stevie_Crye%3F" title="Who Made Stevie Crye?">Who Made Stevie Crye?</a></div> <p>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 <i>Who Made Stevie Crye?</i> was published in 1984 by the highly esteemed specialty publisher <a href="/wiki/Arkham_House" title="Arkham House">Arkham House</a> under the editorship of Jim Turner. This original edition, as well as the British edition, was photographically illustrated by J. K. Potter. When <a href="/wiki/David_Pringle" title="David Pringle">David Pringle</a> chose it for inclusion in his book <i><a href="/wiki/Modern_Fantasy:_The_100_Best_Novels" title="Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels">Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels</a></i>, 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."<sup id="cite_ref-PringleModFan_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PringleModFan-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 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; <i>Stevie Crye</i> is a marvelous book which transcends genre, as all the best of Bishop does."<sup id="cite_ref-SandersFR74_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SandersFR74-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Author <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-WatsonHorror_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WatsonHorror-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ancient_of_Days"><i>Ancient of Days</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Ancient of Days"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bishop's 1983 <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a>-winning novella "Her Habiline Husband" forms the first third of <i>Ancient of Days</i>, published in 1985 by Arbor House. It is the story of "Adam", one of the last surviving <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_habilis" title="Homo habilis">Homo habilis</a></i>, who is discovered in contemporary Georgia. In this thematic companion to his novel <i>No Enemy But Time</i> (with an almost inverse conceit), Bishop tackles issues of racial and cultural prejudice, and explores the question of what it means to be human. <i><a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a></i> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-Locus05/85_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Locus05/85-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bernard Goodman of <i>Fantasy Review</i> believes that "Bishop's theme of evil inherent in humanity echoes <a href="/wiki/William_Golding" title="William Golding">William Golding</a>," and that the novel "in some ways…parallels Golding's <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies" title="Lord of the Flies">Lord of the Flies</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-FR06/85_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FR06/85-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Author <a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-Delany_blurb_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Delany_blurb-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Ancient of Days</i> was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1988_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1988-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Philip_K._Dick_Is_Dead,_Alas"><span id="Philip_K._Dick_Is_Dead.2C_Alas"></span><i>Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally published as <i>The Secret Ascension</i> by <a href="/wiki/Tor_Books" title="Tor Books">Tor Books</a> in 1987 (but subsequently reprinted with the author's preferred title), this work is an homage to writer <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Pastiche" title="Pastiche">pastiche</a> of his style, and includes an <a href="/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel universe (fiction)">alternate reality</a> version of Dick as a character. The novel is set in a world in which Richard <i>Milrose</i> Nixon, in his fourth term as president, holds fascistic control over America, and the science fiction works of <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a> remain unpublished, distributed underground as <a href="/wiki/Samizdat" title="Samizdat">samizdat</a>, while his <a href="/wiki/Realism_(arts)" title="Realism (arts)">realist</a> fiction titles are the ones that are celebrated as <a href="/wiki/Masterpiece" title="Masterpiece">masterpieces</a>. Author and reviewer <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> writes that "the climax is not just an inward epiphany for a character… [T]he world changes in wonderful strange ways, and the audience can read the book passionately, with sweating fingers, eager to see what happens next, yet reluctant to leave the present moment. Imagine: A writer who is already one of the best, taking risks and finding ways to be better."<sup id="cite_ref-CardFSF02/88_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CardFSF02/88-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Card does take Bishop to task for the author's characterization of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, calling it a "caricature" and a "stock character of a madman." <i><a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a></i> reviewer Tom Whitmore calls the book "a masterful pastiche" and "…the closest thing to a classic Dick sf novel anyone has ever done."<sup id="cite_ref-Locus11/87_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Locus11/87-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gerald Jonas in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> writes "Mr. Bishop is a solid, serious writer whose reach (in his previous work) has always seemed to me to exceed his grasp. Here, he catches some of Dick's fire, especially in the early chapters… Then a lot happens very quickly (as in some of Dick's own novels), and the satire, which should hold things together, turns predictable. But…the ending (starring <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a>) approaches sublimity."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT02/07/88_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT02/07/88-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The novel was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1989_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1989-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Unicorn_Mountain"><i>Unicorn Mountain</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Unicorn Mountain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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. An excerpt, "The Calling of Paisley Coldpony", was published in <i><a href="/wiki/Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction" title="Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction">Asimov's Science Fiction</a></i> in January 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-bishop198801_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bishop198801-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> wrote "Michael Bishop has pulled off a rare and amazing feat. <i>Unicorn Mountain</i> successfully weaves such traditional fantasy elements as unicorns and Indian lore together with the all-too-contemporary..."<sup id="cite_ref-Kress_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kress-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> wrote "The triumph of this, Bishop's most artistically whole and successful novel to date, is that he set out to do something that is nearly impossible in fiction: He wrote a novel about constructing a tribe...To do it, he had to bring us to know and understand and care about more fully-created characters than most writers produce in a career."<sup id="cite_ref-CardFSF09/88_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CardFSF09/88-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute's</a> assessment emphasized another theme of the work: "Michael Bishop, whose voice is like a shout from the bottom of the well of the enormous South, and whose heart is on his sleeve, [manages] in <i>Unicorn Mountain</i> to generate a moving tale out of ecological disaster here and in another world, AIDS, the death of cultures, the death of species, and the slow sea-changing of America into themeparks."<sup id="cite_ref-CluteOrbit2_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CluteOrbit2-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The novel won the <a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythopoeic Award">Mythopoeic Fantasy Award</a>, and was shortlisted for the 1989 Locus Award.<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1989_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1989-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Count_Geiger's_Blues"><span id="Count_Geiger.27s_Blues"></span><i>Count Geiger's Blues</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Count Geiger&#039;s Blues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Xavier Thaxton, protagonist of <i>Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy</i> (<a href="/wiki/Tor_Books" title="Tor Books">Tor Books</a>, 1992), is the fine arts editor for a newspaper in the fictional Southern metropolis of Salonika (a satirical/alternate reality version of contemporary <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>) with a particularly low opinion of pop culture. When he is accidentally exposed to illegally dumped nuclear waste, the radiation exposure turns him into a superhero (or, as Bishop designated, a "stalwart"). <i><a href="/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact" title="Analog Science Fiction and Fact">Analog</a></i> reviewer Tom Easton writes about the novel's resolution: "This is where Bishop falters. The satire he has painstakingly created now teeters on the brink of farce. He quite properly makes the decision to yank it back from that brink, but then he loses the satire. He becomes heavy-handed and obvious."<sup id="cite_ref-EastonAnalog11/92_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EastonAnalog11/92-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Faren Miller disagrees: "The most ambitious comic books are no longer merely comic – may even incorporate tragedy in a critique of modern life as savage and acute, in its way, as the ferocious satire of <a href="/wiki/Dante" class="mw-redirect" title="Dante">Dante's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy#Inferno" class="mw-redirect" title="The Divine Comedy">Inferno</a></i>. <i>Count Geiger's Blues</i> also goes beyond humor – well beyond, in its remarkable closing chapters. But they build on all that has gone before. In unleashing a startling talent for comedy and a wide-ranging knowledge of pop culture in both its absurdity and its splendor, Michael Bishop has written his best book yet."<sup id="cite_ref-Locus04/92_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Locus04/92-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Kessel" title="John Kessel">John Kessel</a> writes "Comedy is certainly a new tone from Bishop, and he demonstrates a talent for it…But it seems to me Bishop doesn't really want to write comedy. It's as if Bishop is running riffs on whatever wacky ideas come to hand, without much plan, holding his characters at arm's length; as if, trying to avoid sententiousness, he has to avoid caring – but in the end can't. The result being a loose, baggy sort of book."<sup id="cite_ref-KesselFSF03/93_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KesselFSF03/93-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Joel-Brock_the_Brave_and_the_Valorous_Smalls"><i>Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Paul_Di_Filippo" title="Paul Di Filippo">Paul Di Filippo</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-DiFilippoJB_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DiFilippoJB-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_short_fiction">Selected short fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Selected short fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.".<sup id="cite_ref-InPrayertheWhisper_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-InPrayertheWhisper-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Author, critic and sometime collaborator, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Di_Filippo" title="Paul Di Filippo">Paul Di Filippo</a> writes </p> <blockquote><p>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, <i>Emphatically Not SF, Almost</i>, by hosting only mainstream tales.)<sup id="cite_ref-DiFilippo_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DiFilippo-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>"The Quickening", Bishop's <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a>–winning novelette of 1981, is, according to <a href="/wiki/Brian_Aldiss" title="Brian Aldiss">Brian W. Aldiss</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-Aldiss_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aldiss-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It's the story of an ordinary American man who awakes to find himself in <a href="/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a>, Spain. He soon discovers that the population of the whole world has been scattered, creating a potent stew of race, ethnicity, culture and language. </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-DiFilippo_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DiFilippo-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When several readers wrote letters of protest to <i><a href="/wiki/Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction" title="Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction">Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</a></i> about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis," <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-AsimovJune1984_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AsimovJune1984-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Bishop's story "Dogs' Lives" was reprinted in <i><a href="/wiki/Best_American_Short_Stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Best American Short Stories">Best American Short Stories 1985</a></i>, it became one of only a handful of genre stories to appear in the prestigious anthology series. The story might have languished in limbo, had the author not pulled its submission to <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a>'s never-published anthology <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Dangerous_Visions" title="The Last Dangerous Visions">The Last Dangerous Visions</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-LastDeadlos_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LastDeadlos-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2019</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire</i> (1975) -- <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee, 1975<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1975-2_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1975-2-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees</i> (1976) (later republished as <i>Beneath the Shattered Moons</i>)</li> <li><i>Stolen Faces</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>A Little Knowledge</i> (1977); the first book in the "Urban Nucleus" series</li> <li><i>Catacomb Years</i> (1979) (<a href="/wiki/Fix-up" title="Fix-up">fix-up</a>); the second book in the "Urban Nucleus" series</li> <li><i>Transfigurations</i> (1979) (expansion of novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi") -- BSFA nominee, 1980<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1980-2_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1980-2-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Eyes of Fire</i> (1980) (a complete revision of his first novel)</li> <li><i>Under Heaven's Bridge</i> (1981, with <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Enemy_But_Time" title="No Enemy But Time">No Enemy But Time</a></i> (1982) -- <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> winner, BSFA nominee, 1982;<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1982_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1982-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Campbell Award nominee, 1983<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1983_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1983-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Who_Made_Stevie_Crye%3F" title="Who Made Stevie Crye?">Who Made Stevie Crye?</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i>Ancient of Days</i> (1985) -- <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award" title="Arthur C. Clarke Award">Arthur C. Clarke Award</a> nominee, 1988<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1988_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1988-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Secret Ascension</i> (1987) (later republished with the author's original title: <i>Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas</i>) -- Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1989<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1989_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1989-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Unicorn Mountain</i> (1988) -- <a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythopoeic Award">Mythopoeic Award</a> winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1989<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1989_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1989-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Count Geiger's Blues</i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brittle_Innings" title="Brittle Innings">Brittle Innings</a></i> (1994) -- <a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> winner, <a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell_Memorial_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="John W. Campbell Memorial Award">Campbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a> Awards nominee, 1995<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1995_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1995-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls</i> (2016)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Will Keats series<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <ol><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1">Lawson, Philip (1998). <i>Would it kill you to smile?</i>. Atlanta: Longstreet.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Would+it+kill+you+to+smile%3F&amp;rft.place=Atlanta&amp;rft.pub=Longstreet&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.au=Lawson%2C+Philip&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Bishop+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">&#8212; (2000). <i>Muskrat courage</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Muskrat+courage&amp;rft.date=2000&amp;rft.au=Lawson%2C+Philip&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Bishop+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_fiction">Short fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Short fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Collections">Collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blooded_on_Arachne" title="Blooded on Arachne">Blooded on Arachne</a></i> (1982), includes the novellas "The White Otters of Childhood" and "On the Street of the Serpents", nine stories and two poems from 1970–1978</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Winter_in_Eden" title="One Winter in Eden">One Winter in Eden</a></i> (1984), includes twelve stories from 1978-1983 with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch" title="Thomas M. Disch">Thomas M. Disch</a></li> <li><i>Close Encounters With the Deity</i> (1986), includes the novella "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" and thirteen stories from 1979-1986 with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a></li> <li><i>Emphatically Not SF, Almost</i> (1990), includes nine mainstream stories from 1982–1987</li> <li><i>At the City Limits of Fate</i> (1996), includes fifteen stories from 1982–1996 -- <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick_Award" title="Philip K. Dick Award">Philip K. Dick Award</a> nominee, 1996<sup id="cite_ref-WWE-1996_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WWE-1996-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Blue Kansas Sky</i> (2000), four novellas from 1973–2000, including the first publication of the title story</li> <li><i>Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories</i> (2003), a compilation of previously uncollected stories from 1971–2003</li> <li><i>The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective</i> (2012), a collection of 25 stories and novellas from 1970–2009, 8 of which are previously uncollected</li> <li><i>Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories</i> (2017), includes fifteen stories, mostly mainstream and uncollected, from 1982-2017; winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for short story collection<sup id="cite_ref-GAYA-2018_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GAYA-2018-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales of Calamity, Pilgrimage, and Atonement</i> (2018), includes three novellas from 1983-2012, and the short novel <i><a href="#And_Strange_At_Ecbatan_The_Trees">And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i>The City and the Cygnets</i> (2019), an omnibus publication of all of the works in the Urnu Sequence, originally published 1971-1979</li> <li><i>A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals</i> (2021), includes 50 short stories and poems from 1971-2021, many of which were previously uncollected<sup id="cite_ref-FWP_AFLW_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FWP_AFLW-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anthologies">Anthologies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Anthologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Changes</i> (1983, with <a href="/wiki/Ian_Watson_(author)" title="Ian Watson (author)">Ian Watson</a>)</li> <li><i>Light Years and Dark</i> (1984) (<a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> winner)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Awards_23" title="Nebula Awards 23">Nebula Awards 23</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Awards_24" title="Nebula Awards 24">Nebula Awards 24</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Awards_25" title="Nebula Awards 25">Nebula Awards 25</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i>A Cross of Centuries</i> (2007)</li> <li><i>Passing for Human</i> (2009, with <a href="/wiki/Steven_Utley" title="Steven Utley">Steven Utley</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Notable_stories">Notable stories</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Notable stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Death and Designation Among the Asadi (1973), novella (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The White Otters of Childhood" (1973), novella (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Cathadonian Odyssey" (1974) (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"On the Street of the Serpents" (1974), novella (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Rogue Tomato" (1975) (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The Samurai and the Willows" (1976), novella (<a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> winner; <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The House of Compassionate Sharers", novella (1977)</li> <li>"Old Folks at Home", novella (1978)</li> <li>"Within the Walls of Tyre" (1978), novelette (<a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Vernalfest Morning" (1978) (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Seasons of Belief" (1979) (dramatized on <a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside" title="Tales from the Darkside">Tales from the Darkside</a>)</li> <li>"Cold War Orphans" (1980), novella</li> <li>"The Quickening" (1981), novelette (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> winner)</li> <li>"The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" (1983), novella (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Her Habiline Husband" (1983), novella (<a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> winner and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The Monkey's Bride" (1983) (<a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Dogs' Lives" (1984) (reprinted in <a href="/wiki/Best_American_Short_Stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Best American Short Stories">Best American Short Stories</a> 1985)</li> <li>"A Gift from the GrayLanders" (1985), novelette (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", novelette (1987)</li> <li><i>Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana</i> (1989), novella (<a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a> nominee) (published as a chapbook)</li> <li>"The Ommatidium Miniatures" (1989) (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Life_Regarded_as_a_Jigsaw_Puzzle_of_Highly_Lustrous_Cats" title="Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats">Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats</a>" (1991) (finalist for the <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Short_Story" title="Nebula Award for Best Short Story">Nebula Award for Best Short Story</a>)</li> <li>"Cri de Coeur" (1994), novella (<a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"I, Iscariot" (1995), novelette (<a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon_Award" title="Theodore Sturgeon Award">Theodore Sturgeon Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Among the Handlers" (1996), novella</li> <li>"Sequel on Skorpiós" (1998)</li> <li>"Blue Kansas Sky" (2000), novella (<a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The Sacerdotal Owl" (2003), novelette</li> <li>"The Door Gunner" (2003), novelette (Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award winner)</li> <li>"The Road Leads Back" (2003)</li> <li>"Bears Discover Smut" (2005) (Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award winner and <a href="/wiki/British_Science_Fiction_Association_award" class="mw-redirect" title="British Science Fiction Association award">British Science Fiction Association award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"Vinegar Peace; or, The Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage" (2008), novelette (<a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee)</li> <li>"The Pile" (2008) (<a href="/wiki/Shirley_Jackson_Award" title="Shirley Jackson Award">Shirley Jackson Award</a> winner)</li> <li>"The City Quiet as Death" (2009, with <a href="/wiki/Steven_Utley" title="Steven Utley">Steven Utley</a>)</li> <li>"Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow'" (2012), novella (Selected by <a href="/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" title="Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a> for his "Best of the Year" annual anthology)</li> <li>"Rattlesnakes and Men" (2015)</li> <li>"Gale Strang" (2017), novelette <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> nominee</li> <li>"Yahweh's Hour" (2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Collections_2">Collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Windows and Mirrors</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Time Pieces</i> (1998)<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Reverie_for_Mister_Ray" title="A Reverie for Mister Ray">A Reverie for Mister Ray</a></i> (2005)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interviews">Interviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"The Prophetic World of Michael Bishop", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlanta_Journal-Constitution" title="The Atlanta Journal-Constitution">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a> Magazine</i>, April 4, 1976: 8-10, 20 (interviewed by Phil Garner)</li> <li>"Michael Bishop: No Two Alike", <a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)"><i>Locus</i></a> #335, December 1988: 1, 65-66 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)</li> <li>"Interview with Michael Bishop", <i>Science Fiction Review</i> #1, Spring 1990: 42-43, 102 (interviewed by Elton Elliott)</li> <li>"Michael Bishop: Subduing the Serpent", <a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)"><i>Locus</i></a> #426, July 1996: 4-5, 73-74 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intmb.htm">"In Prayer the Whisper of the Void"</a>, October 2000 (interviewed by Nick Gevers, reprinted in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Science_Fiction" title="The New York Review of Science Fiction">The New York Review of Science Fiction</a></i> #172, December 2002)</li> <li>"Michael Bishop: The Blessing and the Curse", <a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)"><i>Locus</i></a> #526, November 2004: 8-9, 76-77 (interviewed by Charles N. Brown)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intmb2.htm">An Interview with Michael Bishop</a> (interviewed by Kilian Melloy)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090918140330/http://www.sandyauden.co.uk/archive/2005_06_01_archive.htm#112158668774492230">Teamwork: Bishop, Crowther, Hutchins et al.</a> (interviewed by Sandy Auden)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://raccontifantascienzaedintorni.blogspot.com/2010/06/michael-lawson-bishop-aliens.html">An Interview with Michael Bishop, June 2010</a> (interviewed by Francesco Troccoli)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Bishop_(author)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Crossroads-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Crossroads_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cox, F. Brett and <a href="/wiki/Andy_Duncan_(writer)" title="Andy Duncan (writer)">Andy Duncan</a>, eds., <i>Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic</i>, New York: Tor Books, 2004: 223</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Risen-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Risen_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Risen_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Risen_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Risen_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRisen2023" class="citation news cs1">Risen, Clay (December 12, 2023). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/books/michael-bishop-dead.html">"Michael Bishop, Genre-Busting Writer Known for Science Fiction, Dies at 78"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 12,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Michael+Bishop%2C+Genre-Busting+Writer+Known+for+Science+Fiction%2C+Dies+at+78&amp;rft.date=2023-12-12&amp;rft.aulast=Risen&amp;rft.aufirst=Clay&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F12%2F12%2Fbooks%2Fmichael-bishop-dead.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Bishop+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Military_Brat-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Military_Brat_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bishop, Michael. "Military Brat." <i>Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series</i>, Volume 26. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 27,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Worlds+Without+End&amp;rft.atitle=1995+Award+Winners+%26+Nominees&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldswithoutend.com%2Fbooks_year_index.asp%3Fyear%3D1995&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Bishop+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Philip Lawson is a pseudonym for Di Filippo and Bishop</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WWE-1996-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WWE-1996_68-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1996">"1996 Award Winners &amp; Nominees"</a>. <i>Worlds Without End</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Martin</a> (1981)</li> <li><i>Blue Champagne</i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Varley_(author)" title="John Varley (author)">John Varley</a> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Souls_(story)" title="Souls (story)">Souls</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Russ" title="Joanna Russ">Joanna Russ</a> (1983)</li> <li><i>Her Habilene Husband</i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Michael Bishop</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Press_Enter" title="Press Enter">Press Enter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Varley_(author)" title="John Varley (author)">John Varley</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Only_Neat_Thing_To_Do" class="mw-redirect" title="The Only Neat Thing To Do">The Only Neat Thing To Do</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a> (1986)</li> <li><i>R&amp;R</i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1987)</li> <li><i>The Secret Sharer</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Silverberg" title="Robert Silverberg">Robert Silverberg</a> (1988)</li> <li><i>The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter</i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>The Father of Stones</i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1990)</li> <li><i>A Short, Sharp Shock</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> (1991)</li> <li><i>The Gallery of His Dreams</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kristine_Kathryn_Rusch" title="Kristine Kathryn Rusch">Kristine Kathryn Rusch</a> (1992)</li> <li><i>Barnacle Bill the Spacer</i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1993)</li> <li><i>Mefisto in Onyx</i> by <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> (1994)</li> <li><i>Forgiveness Day</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. 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Le Guin</a> (1995)</li> <li><i>Remake</i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1996)</li> <li><i>Bellwether</i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1997)</li> <li><i>Where Angels Fear to Tread</i> by <a href="/wiki/Allen_Steele" title="Allen Steele">Allen Steele</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oceanic_(novella)" title="Oceanic (novella)">Oceanic</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Egan" title="Greg Egan">Greg Egan</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Orphans of the Helix</i> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Simmons" title="Dan Simmons">Dan Simmons</a> (2000)</li> <li><i>Radiant Green Star</i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (2001)</li> <li><i>The Finder</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. 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Le Guin</a> (2002)</li> <li><i>The Tain</i> by <a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_(novella)" title="The Cookie Monster (novella)">The Cookie Monster</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> (2004)</li> <li><i>Golden City Far</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magic_for_Beginners_(novella)" title="Magic for Beginners (novella)">Magic for Beginners</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Missile_Gap" title="Missile Gap">Missile Gap</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> (2007)</li> <li><i>After the Siege</i> by <a href="/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" title="Cory Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> (2008)</li> <li><i>Pretty Monsters</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>The Women of Neill Gwynne's</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kage_Baker" title="Kage Baker">Kage Baker</a> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Objects" title="The Lifecycle of Software Objects">The Lifecycle of Software Objects</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Chiang" title="Ted Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (2011)</li> <li><i>Silently and Very Fast</i> by <a href="/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente" title="Catherynne M. Valente">Catherynne M. Valente</a> (2012)</li> <li><i>After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall</i> by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Six-Gun_Snow_White" title="Six-Gun Snow White">Six-Gun Snow White</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente" title="Catherynne M. Valente">Catherynne M. Valente</a> (2014)</li> <li><i>Yesterday's Kin</i> by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (2015)</li> <li><i>Slow Bullets</i> by <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds" title="Alastair Reynolds">Alastair Reynolds</a> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Every_Heart_a_Doorway" title="Every Heart a Doorway">Every Heart a Doorway</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Seanan_McGuire" title="Seanan McGuire">Seanan McGuire</a> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Systems_Red" title="All Systems Red">All Systems Red</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries" title="The Murderbot Diaries">Artificial Condition</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War" title="This Is How You Lose the Time War">This Is How You Lose the Time War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Max_Gladstone" title="Max Gladstone">Max Gladstone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amal_El-Mohtar" title="Amal El-Mohtar">Amal El-Mohtar</a> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ring_Shout" title="Ring Shout">Ring Shout</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/P._Dj%C3%A8l%C3%AD_Clark" title="P. Djèlí Clark">P. Djèlí Clark</a> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries" title="The Murderbot Diaries">Fugitive Telemetry</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Prayer_for_the_Crown-Shy" title="A Prayer for the Crown-Shy">A Prayer for the Crown-Shy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Becky_Chambers" title="Becky Chambers">Becky Chambers</a> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thornhedge" title="Thornhedge">Thornhedge</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_Vernon" title="Ursula Vernon">T. Kingfisher</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best Novel">Best Novel</a> (1971–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Science_Fiction_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel">Best SF Novel</a> (1980–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Fantasy_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel">Best Fantasy Novel</a> (1978–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_First_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best First Novel">Best First Novel</a> (1981–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Horror_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best Horror Novel">Best Horror Novel</a> (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Young_Adult_Book" title="Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book">Best Young Adult Book</a> (2003–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Novella" title="Locus Award for Best Novella">Best Novella</a> (1973–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Novelette" title="Locus Award for Best Novelette">Best Novelette</a> (1975–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_Short_Story" title="Locus Award for Best Short Story">Best Short Story</a> (1971–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Nebula_Award_Best_Novel" title="Template:Nebula Award Best Novel"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Nebula_Award_Best_Novel" title="Template talk:Nebula Award Best Novel"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Nebula_Award_Best_Novel" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Nebula Award Best Novel"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Nebula Award for Best Novel">Best Novel</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1966–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dune_(novel)" title="Dune (novel)">Dune</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babel-17" title="Babel-17">Babel-17</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon" title="Flowers for Algernon">Flowers for Algernon</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Keyes" title="Daniel Keyes">Daniel Keyes</a> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Einstein_Intersection" title="The Einstein Intersection">The Einstein Intersection</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rite_of_Passage_(novel)" title="Rite of Passage (novel)">Rite of Passage</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Panshin" title="Alexei Panshin">Alexei Panshin</a> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ringworld" title="Ringworld">Ringworld</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Time_of_Changes" title="A Time of Changes">A Time of Changes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Silverberg" title="Robert Silverberg">Robert Silverberg</a> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves" title="The Gods Themselves">The Gods Themselves</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama" title="Rendezvous with Rama">Rendezvous with Rama</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Forever_War" title="The Forever War">The Forever War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Man_Plus" title="Man Plus">Man Plus</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederik_Pohl" title="Frederik Pohl">Frederik Pohl</a> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gateway_(novel)" title="Gateway (novel)">Gateway</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederik_Pohl" title="Frederik Pohl">Frederik Pohl</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreamsnake" title="Dreamsnake">Dreamsnake</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre" title="Vonda N. McIntyre">Vonda N. McIntyre</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise" title="The Fountains of Paradise">The Fountains of Paradise</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Timescape" title="Timescape">Timescape</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Benford" title="Gregory Benford">Gregory Benford</a> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Claw_of_the_Conciliator" title="The Claw of the Conciliator">The Claw of the Conciliator</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Enemy_But_Time" title="No Enemy But Time">No Enemy But Time</a></i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Michael Bishop</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Startide_Rising" title="Startide Rising">Startide Rising</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neuromancer" title="Neuromancer">Neuromancer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Gibson" title="William Gibson">William Gibson</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ender%27s_Game" title="Ender&#39;s Game">Ender's Game</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead" title="Speaker for the Dead">Speaker for the Dead</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Falling_Woman" title="The Falling Woman">The Falling Woman</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Pat_Murphy_(writer)" title="Pat Murphy (writer)">Pat Murphy</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Falling_Free" title="Falling Free">Falling Free</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Healer%27s_War" title="The Healer&#39;s War">The Healer's War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Scarborough" title="Elizabeth Ann Scarborough">Elizabeth Ann Scarborough</a> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stations_of_the_Tide" title="Stations of the Tide">Stations of the Tide</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Swanwick" title="Michael Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Book_(novel)" title="Doomsday Book (novel)">Doomsday Book</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_trilogy" title="Mars trilogy">Red Mars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moving_Mars" title="Moving Mars">Moving Mars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Bear" title="Greg Bear">Greg Bear</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment" title="The Terminal Experiment">The Terminal Experiment</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer" title="Robert J. Sawyer">Robert J. Sawyer</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Slow_River" title="Slow River">Slow River</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nicola_Griffith" title="Nicola Griffith">Nicola Griffith</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_and_the_Sun" title="The Moon and the Sun">The Moon and the Sun</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre" title="Vonda N. McIntyre">Vonda N. McIntyre</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Forever_Peace" title="Forever Peace">Forever Peace</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parable_of_the_Talents_(novel)" title="Parable of the Talents (novel)">Parable of the Talents</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler" title="Octavia E. Butler">Octavia E. Butler</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio" title="Darwin&#39;s Radio">Darwin's Radio</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Bear" title="Greg Bear">Greg Bear</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Quantum_Rose" title="The Quantum Rose">The Quantum Rose</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Asaro" title="Catherine Asaro">Catherine Asaro</a> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Gods" title="American Gods">American Gods</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Speed_of_Dark" title="Speed of Dark">Speed of Dark</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Moon" title="Elizabeth Moon">Elizabeth Moon</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paladin_of_Souls" title="Paladin of Souls">Paladin of Souls</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Camouflage_(novel)" title="Camouflage (novel)">Camouflage</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Seeker_(McDevitt_novel)" title="Seeker (McDevitt novel)">Seeker</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jack_McDevitt" title="Jack McDevitt">Jack McDevitt</a> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen%27s_Union" title="The Yiddish Policemen&#39;s Union">The Yiddish Policemen's Union</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Chabon" title="Michael Chabon">Michael Chabon</a> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Powers_(novel)" title="Powers (novel)">Powers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Windup_Girl" title="The Windup Girl">The Windup Girl</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi" title="Paolo Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackout/All_Clear" title="Blackout/All Clear">Blackout/All Clear</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Among_Others" title="Among Others">Among Others</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jo_Walton" title="Jo Walton">Jo Walton</a> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2312_(novel)" title="2312 (novel)">2312</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ancillary_Justice" title="Ancillary Justice">Ancillary Justice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Leckie" title="Ann Leckie">Ann Leckie</a> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel)" title="Annihilation (VanderMeer novel)">Annihilation</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer" title="Jeff VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Uprooted_(novel)" title="Uprooted (novel)">Uprooted</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Naomi_Novik" title="Naomi Novik">Naomi Novik</a> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Birds_in_the_Sky" title="All the Birds in the Sky">All the Birds in the Sky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jane_Anders" title="Charlie Jane Anders">Charlie Jane Anders</a> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Sky" title="The Stone Sky">The Stone Sky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/N._K._Jemisin" title="N. K. Jemisin">N. K. Jemisin</a> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Calculating_Stars" title="The Calculating Stars">The Calculating Stars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Robinette_Kowal" title="Mary Robinette Kowal">Mary Robinette Kowal</a> (2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_for_a_New_Day" title="A Song for a New Day">A Song for a New Day</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Pinsker" title="Sarah Pinsker">Sarah Pinsker</a> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Network_Effect_(novel)" title="Network Effect (novel)">Network Effect</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Master_of_Djinn" title="A Master of Djinn">A Master of Djinn</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/P._Dj%C3%A8l%C3%AD_Clark" title="P. Djèlí Clark">P. Djèlí Clark</a> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babel,_or_the_Necessity_of_Violence" title="Babel, or the Necessity of Violence">Babel, or the Necessity of Violence</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/R._F._Kuang" title="R. F. Kuang">R. F. Kuang</a> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Saint_of_Bright_Doors" title="The Saint of Bright Doors">The Saint of Bright Doors</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vajra_Chandrasekera" title="Vajra Chandrasekera">Vajra Chandrasekera</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novelette" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Nebula_Award_Best_Novelette" title="Template:Nebula Award Best Novelette"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Nebula_Award_Best_Novelette" title="Template talk:Nebula Award Best Novelette"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Nebula_Award_Best_Novelette" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Nebula Award Best Novelette"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novelette" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novelette" title="Nebula Award for Best Novelette">Best Novelette</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1966–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Doors_of_His_Face,_the_Lamps_of_His_Mouth" title="The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth">The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a> (1966)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Call_Him_Lord" title="Call Him Lord">Call Him Lord</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson" title="Gordon R. Dickson">Gordon R. Dickson</a> (1967)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gonna_Roll_the_Bones" title="Gonna Roll the Bones">Gonna Roll the Bones</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> (1968)</li> <li>"Mother to the World" by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wilson_(author)" title="Richard Wilson (author)">Richard Wilson</a> (1969)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Time_Considered_as_a_Helix_of_Semi-Precious_Stones" title="Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones">Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a> (1970)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Slow_Sculpture" title="Slow Sculpture">Slow Sculpture</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a> (1971)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Queen_of_Air_and_Darkness_(novella)" title="The Queen of Air and Darkness (novella)">The Queen of Air and Darkness</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a> (1972)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Goat_Song_(novelette)" title="Goat Song (novelette)">Goat Song</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a> (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Of_Mist,_and_Grass,_and_Sand" title="Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand">Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre" title="Vonda N. McIntyre">Vonda N. McIntyre</a> (1974)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If_the_Stars_Are_Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="If the Stars Are Gods">If the Stars Are Gods</a>", by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Eklund" title="Gordon Eklund">Gordon Eklund</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Benford" title="Gregory Benford">Gregory Benford</a> (1975)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Lightfoot_Sue" title="San Diego Lightfoot Sue">San Diego Lightfoot Sue</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Reamy" title="Tom Reamy">Tom Reamy</a> (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Bicentennial_Man" title="The Bicentennial Man">The Bicentennial Man</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> (1977)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution" title="The Screwfly Solution">The Screwfly Solution</a>" by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">Raccoona Sheldon</a> (1978)</li> <li>"A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Grant" title="Charles L. Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1979)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette)" title="Sandkings (novelette)">Sandkings</a>" by <a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"The Ugly Chickens" by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Waldrop" title="Howard Waldrop">Howard Waldrop</a> (1981)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Quickening_(short_story)" title="The Quickening (short story)">The Quickening</a>" by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Michael Bishop</a> (1982)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fire_Watch_(short_story)" title="Fire Watch (short story)">Fire Watch</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)" title="Blood Music (novel)">Blood Music</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Bear" title="Greg Bear">Greg Bear</a> (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bloodchild_and_Other_Stories" title="Bloodchild and Other Stories">Bloodchild</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler" title="Octavia E. Butler">Octavia Butler</a> (1985)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_His_Children" title="Portraits of His Children">Portraits of His Children</a>" by <a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a> (1986)</li> <li>"The Girl who Fell into the Sky" by <a href="/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm" title="Kate Wilhelm">Kate Wilhelm</a> (1987)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rachel_in_Love" title="Rachel in Love">Rachel in Love</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Pat_Murphy_(writer)" title="Pat Murphy (writer)">Pat Murphy</a> (1988)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Kitten" title="Schrödinger&#39;s Kitten">Schrödinger's Kitten</a>" by <a href="/wiki/George_Alec_Effinger" title="George Alec Effinger">George Alec Effinger</a> (1989)</li> <li>"At the Rialto" by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tower_of_Babylon_(story)" title="Tower of Babylon (story)">Tower of Babylon</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Chiang" title="Ted Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (1991)</li> <li>"Guide Dog" by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Conner" title="Michael Conner">Michael Conner</a> (1992)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Danny_Goes_to_Mars" title="Danny Goes to Mars">Danny Goes to Mars</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Sargent" title="Pamela Sargent">Pamela Sargent</a> (1993)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Georgia_on_My_Mind_(novelette)" title="Georgia on My Mind (novelette)">Georgia on My Mind</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sheffield" title="Charles Sheffield">Charles Sheffield</a> (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Child" title="The Martian Child">The Martian Child</a>" by <a href="/wiki/David_Gerrold" title="David Gerrold">David Gerrold</a> (1995)</li> <li>"Solitude" by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1996)</li> <li>"Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Holland_Rogers" title="Bruce Holland Rogers">Bruce Holland Rogers</a> (1997)</li> <li>"The Flowers of Adult Prison" by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (1998)</li> <li>"Lost Girls" by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Yolen" title="Jane Yolen">Jane Yolen</a> (1999)</li> <li>"'Mars is No Place for Children", by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Turzillo" title="Mary Turzillo">Mary Turzillo</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"Daddy's World" by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Jon_Williams" title="Walter Jon Williams">Walter Jon Williams</a> (2001)</li> <li>"Louise's Ghost" by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a> (2002)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hell_is_the_Absence_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Hell is the Absence of God">Hell is the Absence of God</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Chiang" title="Ted Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (2003)</li> <li>"The Empire of Ice Cream" by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2004)</li> <li>"Basement Magic" by <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Klages" title="Ellen Klages">Ellen Klages</a> (2005)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Faery_Handbag" title="The Faery Handbag">The Faery Handbag</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a> (2006)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Two_Hearts_(story)" title="Two Hearts (story)">Two Hearts</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> (2007)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemist%27s_Gate" title="The Merchant and the Alchemist&#39;s Gate">The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Chiang" title="Ted Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (2008)</li> <li>"Pride and Prometheus" by <a href="/wiki/John_Kessel" title="John Kessel">John Kessel</a> (2009)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sinner,_Baker,_Fabulist,_Priest;_Red_Mask,_Black_Mask,_Gentleman,_Beast" title="Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast">Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Eugie_Foster" title="Eugie Foster">Eugie Foster</a> (2010)</li> <li>"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by <a href="/wiki/Eric_James_Stone" title="Eric James Stone">Eric James Stone</a> (2011)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_We_Found_(short_story)" title="What We Found (short story)">What We Found</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Ryman" title="Geoff Ryman">Geoff Ryman</a> 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