Michael Bishop
Chateau de Marouatte, France, 2005
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Michael Bishop
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A Special Message from Michael Bishop concerning his son, Jamie.

Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage has been published in the July 2008 issue of Asimov's.

Short story Dr. Prida's Dream-Plagued Patient has been reprinted in the 2007 annual of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

PS Publishing has published The Crystal Cosmos, a novella by Rhys Hughes with a narrative introduction, "The Orchid Forest", by Michael Bishop.

A Cross of Centuries / Justine Ives Michael's anthology A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ has been published by Thunder's Mouth Press.  It includes original and reprinted stories by Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Isaac Babel, Jorge Luis Borges, Gene Wolfe, Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Holland Rogers, Oscar Wilde, and others.  The book can be ordered through Amazon.com.  Go here for the list of contents.

Ancient of Days has been chosen as one of 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels, a selection co-authored by Steve Andrews and Nick Rennison.  This Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide will be published in September by A & C Black.  Pre-orders are now available through Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk.

Short story Change of Life has been reprinted in the Summer 2006 issue of the literary magazine Driftwood.  For more info or to order a copy go to the publisher's website.

Now available: "We're All in This Alone," Michael's collaborative story with Paul Di Filippo, has been reprinted in Paul's collection Shuteye for the Timebroker, published by Thunder's Mouth Press.





The Rhysling Award-winning poem "For the Lady of a Physicist" has been reprinted in the Science Fiction Poetry Association's The Alchemy of Stars published by Wildside Press.  Greg Beatty's comprehensive analysis of the poem can be found on the Strange Horizons website.

"Bears Discover Smut" has won the SESFA (Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award) for best short fiction of 2005.  The award is administered by the online sf magazine scifidimensions.com.  The story was also shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award.  It can be read online at SciFiction.com.

The essay, "Little, Big, Witless, Wise: The Disquieting Allure of Gulliver's Travels," written for Mike's nonfiction collection A Reverie for Mister Ray, has been reprinted in the second issue of Subterranean Magazine, published by Bill Schafer.  For information about subscribing to the magazine or ordering individual copies go here.

An interview by Sandy Auden about the nonfiction collection, A Reverie for Mister Ray is on The Alien Online website.

For discussions about or questions to Michael Bishop, there is a message board on the Night Shade Books website.

Stories based on notes by Jamie Bishop are currently or will soon be in print. The Pile, has been published in the Winter 2008 issue of the online edition of Subterranean Magazine with cover art work by Jamie.  "Purr" will be published by Weird Tales later this year.  Another story, "The Library of Babble", is currently out to market.  Here's a link to Michael's poem, Jamie's Hair, published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Michael Bishop and Steven Utley's anthology Passing for Human is scheduled for publication by PS Publishing in early 2008 with cover art by Jamie Bishop. 

A Reverie for Mister Ray / Jamie Bishop A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death and Speculative Fiction, a collection of Michael's essays, reviews, and assorted works of nonfiction, edited by Michael H. Hutchins, has been published by PS Publishing.  For more information on the collection's contents, go here.  To order a copy, go to the publisher's website.

Michael's introduction to George Alec Effinger's short story "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" has been published in Live! From Planet Earth by Golden Gryphon Press.

Paul Di Filippo has uploaded to his blog the article that he wrote on the fantasy fiction of Michael Bishop for Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror (Scribner's, 2003).  Link to the article.

Mainstream story "Baby Love" has been published in Polyphony 4 by Wheatland Press.

Familes Are Murder PointBlank Press has published an omnibus of Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo's mystery novels, Families Are Murder: The Will Keats Mysteries (as by "Philip Lawson").  It reprints Would It Kill You to Smile? and Muskrat Courage with a new introduction by Di Filippo and Bishop.


Short story "The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia" has been reprinted in Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, an anthology edited by Andy Duncan and F. Brett Cox for Tor Books.

Fourteen poems (a mix of reprints and originals) appear in The Devil's Wine , edited by Tom Piccirilli, published by Cemetery Dance.  Among the reprints are the classic "To a Chimp Held Captive for the Purposes of Research".  The originals include five poems from An Owl at the Crucifixion, a forthcoming novel.  Go here for ordering information.

Golden Gryphon Press has published Brighten to Incandescence, a collection of seventeen stories.  The wrap-around cover art is by Jamie Bishop, Michael's son.  For a larger reproduction of Jamie's cover, go here.  The short story O Happy Day from this collection is available on this website.  To order a copy from Amazon, click here.

For a listing of recent publications go here. 


Signed First Editions!

Readers who wish to obtain signed / inscribed copies of several of Michael's out-of-print books can order them directly from him via this page.




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