Michael Bishop

"Allegiances" (Urban Nucleus) © Galaxy, Feb 1975 Catacomb Years, 1979 --novella : 1976 Locus /8 --/ cool sf novella --/ style award "Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana" © Full Spectrum # 3, 1991 --novella : 1990 World Fantasy --novella : 1990 Locus /19 --novella : 1992 Nebula --/ cool sf story --/ style award "At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoo Fly-Pie Kid" © Cosmos, Nov 1977 Catacomb Years, 1979 "Blooded On Arachne" © Epoch, ed. R. Elwood, 1975 Blooded on Arachne, 1982 --novelette : 1976 Nebula --novelette : 1976 Locus /15 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Catacomb Years" (coll) (Urban Nucleus) © 1979, Berkley Books --sf novel : 1980 Locus /16 --/ cool sf collection --/ style award "Collaborating" © Rooms of Paradise, ed. L. Harding, 1978 One Winter In Eden, 1984 "The Contributors To Plenum Four" © New Dimensions # 5, 1975 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award "Death Rehearsals" (Urban Nucleus) © Catacomb Years, 1979 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Eyes Of Fire" (nv) © 1980, Pocket Books --sf novel : 1981 Locus /18 --/ cool sf novel --/ style award "A Funeral For The Eyes Of Fire" (nv) © 1975, Ballantine Books --novel : 1976 Nebula --novel : 1976 Locus /14 --/ cool sf novel --/ style award ---------------------------------------------- "A Gift From The GrayLanders" © IASFM, Sep 1985 Close Encounters With the Deity, 1986 --novelette : 1986 Hugo --novelette : 1986 Nebula --novelette : 1986 Locus /8 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ shock value The ferocious tone of this novella really took me off-guard, as I generally expect more subdued "artsy" and avangardistic pieces from Bishop, one of the leaders of Seventies New Wave revival. But apparently he graduated to a well-written, imaginative (and more focused) thriller style in the Eighties, as this novella (about a vicious and strange alien invasion of quiet American suburbs) clearly shows. After watching recent "War of the Worlds" movie, I was struck how much the implied terror is more frightening than the one clearly shown on a screen. This story was scary and yet visual enough to stand as one of the best "alien invasion" stories in the history of a genre. review: 25-Aug-06 (read in 2002) ---------------------------------------------- "Her Habiline Husband" © Universe # 13, 1983 --novella : 1984 Nebula --novella : 1984 Locus W --novella : 1984 SF Chronicle W --/ cool sf story "The House Of Compassionate Sharers" © Cosmos # 1, May 1977 Blooded on Arachne, 1982 --short fiction : 1978 Locus /12 --international fiction : 1978 Ditmar --/ cool sf story --/ style award "If A Flower Could Eclipse" (Urban Nucleus) © Worlds of Fantasy, Win 1970 Catacomb Years, 1979 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "In Chinistrex Fortronza the People Are Machines" © New Constellations, ed. T. Disch, 1976 Blooded on Arachne, 1982 "Mory" © Shadows, ed. C. Grant, 1978 --/ cool f story "No Enemy But Time" (nv) © 1982, Timescape Books --novel : 1983 Nebula W --second place : 1983 Campbell Memorial /2 --sf novel : 1983 Locus /14 --novel : 1983 British SF --international fiction : 1983 Ditmar --/ cool sf novel "Old Folks At Home" (Urban Nucleus) © Universe # 8, 1978 Catacomb Years, 1979 --novella : 1979 Locus /4 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "The Quickening" © Universe # 11, 1981 One Winter In Eden, 1984 --novelette : 1982 Hugo --novelette : 1982 Nebula W --novelette : 1982 Locus /10 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Rogue Tomato" © New Dimensions # 5, 1975 Blooded on Arachne, 1982 --short story : 1976 Hugo --short story : 1976 Locus /7 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award "The Samurai And The Willows" (Urban Nucleus) © F&SF, Feb 1976 Catacomb Years, 1979 --novella : 1977 Hugo --novella : 1977 Nebula --novella : 1977 Locus W --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Saving Face" © Universe # 10, 1980 One Winter In Eden, 1984 --novelette : 1981 Locus /8 --/ cool sf story "Snapshots From Butterfly Plague" © OMNI, Dec 1990 At the City Limits of Fate, 1996 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Spiritual Disfunction And Counter-Angelic Longings" © Heaven Sent, ed. P. Crowther, 1995 --/ cool f story "Three Dream Woman" (with Craig Strete) © New Dimensions # 8, 1978 "Vernalfest Morning" © Chrysalis # 3, 1978 One Winter In Eden, 1984 --short story : 1980 Nebula --short story : 1980 Locus /15 --/ cool sf story "The Windows In Dante's Hell" (Urban Nucleus) © Orbit # 12, 1973 Catacomb Years, 1979 --/ cool sf story "Within The Walls Of Tyre" © Weirdbook # 13, 1978 One Winter In Eden, 1984 --short fiction : 1979 World Fantasy --novelette : 1979 Locus /16 --/ cool sf story --/ style award --------------------------------------------

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