Michael Bishop: Collections

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At the City Limits of Fate
Blooded on Arachne
Blue Kansas Sky
Brighten to Incandescence
Close Encounters With the Deity
The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy
Emphatically Not SF, Almost
One Winter in Eden

Blooded on Arachne
	Sauk City WI: Arkham House [ISBN 0-87054-093-9] [hc] ($13.95), Jan 1982; 338 pp. [cover: Ron Walotsky; interior illustrations by Glennray Tutor] [4081 copies printed]
	Contents Preface Among the Hominids at Olduvai [poem] Blooded on Arachne Cathadonian Odyssey Effigies The House of Compassionate Sharers In Chinistrex Fortronza the People are Machines Leaps of Faith On the Street of the Serpents Piñon Fall Rogue Tomato Spacemen and Gypsies The White Otters of Childhood For the Lady of a Physicist [poem]
	New York: Timescape [Pocket] [ISBN 0-671-41319-8] [pb] ($3.50), Jan 1983; 305 pp. [cover: Ron Walotsky]
	Contents [same as the Arkham House edition]
	[Part One as Arachne] [German translation by Johannes P. Blasius] Frankfurt: Ullstein (#31054) [ISBN 3-548-31054-0] [pb] (DM 6.80), Jun 1983; 176 pp. [cover: Peter Knifton]
	Contents Vorwort [Preface] Arachne [Blooded on Arachne] Odyssee auf Cathadonia [Cathadonian Odyssey] Abbilder [Effigies ] Das Haus der Mitfühlenden Teiler [The House of Compassionate Sharers] Die bewohner von Chinistrex Fortronza sind maschinen [In Chinistrex Fortronza the People are Machines] Glaubenssprünge [Leaps of Faith] Besucher [Piñon Fall]
	[Part Two as Raumfahrer und Sternzigeuner] [German translation by Johannes P. Blasius] Frankfurt: Ullstein (#31063) [ISBN 3-548-31063-X] [pb] (DM 6.80), Nov 1983; 176 pp. [cover: Tony Roberts]
	Contents Auf der Straße der Schlangen [On the Street of the Serpents] Als Tomate im Weltraum [Rogue Tomato] Raumfahrer und Sternzigeuner [Spacemen and Gypsies] Die weißen Otter der Kindheit [The White Otters of Childhood] Among the Hominids at Olduvai [poem] For the Lady of a Physicist [poem]

One Winter in Eden
	Sauk City WI: Arkham House [ISBN 0-87054-096-3] [hc] ($13.95), Jan 1984; 273 pp. [cover: Raymond Bayless; interior artwork by Andrew Smith] [3596 copies printed]
	Contents Introductions [Foreword by Thomas M. Disch] One Winter in Eden Seasons of Belief Cold War Orphans The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia Out of the Mouths of Olympus Patriots Collaborating Within the Walls of Tyre The Monkey's Bride Vernalfest Morning Saving Face The Quickening

Close Encounters With the Deity
	Atlanta GA: Peachtree Publishers [ISBN 0-931948-96-7] [hc] ($15.95) [ISBN 0-934601-07-0] [trade pb] ($8.95) Aug 1986; 306 pp. [cover: Ralph P. Masiello]
	Contents Religion and Science Fiction [Foreword by Isaac Asimov] Close Encounter with the Deity Voices A Spy in the Domain of Arnheim Love's Heresy Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour Dogs' Lives A Gift from the GrayLanders A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D. Diary of a Dead Man Scrimptalon's Test The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. Alien Graffiti And the Marlin Spoke The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis

Emphatically Not SF, Almost
	Eugene OR: Pulphouse Publishing [Author's Choice Monthly, Issue 15] [no ISBN] [leatherbound hardcover; limited to 50 signed and numbered copies] ($50.00) [clothbound hardcover, limited to 300 signed and numbered copies] ($25.00) [trade paperback, unlimited] ($4.95) Dec 1990; 102 pp. [cover: George Barr]
	Contents Introduction Unlikely Friends Wished-For Belongings A Pocketful of Angst: A Mini-Anthology Dear Bill A Father's Secret Give a Little Whistle The Egret Tears Patriots Taccati's Tomorrow

At the City Limits of Fate
	Cambridge MA: Edgewood Press [ISBN 0-9629066-6-2] [trade pb] ($14.00) Aug 1996; 328 pp. [cover: Rick Berry]
	Contents Beginnings 000-00-0000 Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague Among the Handlers At the City Limits of Fate Epistrophy For Thus Do I Remember Carthage Allegra's Hands God's Hour In the Memory Room Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats Reading the Silks Icicle Music The Ommatidium Miniatures I, Iscariot
	[as En los suburbios del destino] [Spanish (Castilian) translation by Maria Fernandez Gutierrez] Madrid Spain: Grupo Ajec [Albemuth Internacional] [ISBN 978-84-96013-94-0] [trade pb] (17,95 €) Jun 2010; 288 pp. [cover: Duc Truong Huyen]
	Contents Principios [Beginnings] 000-00-0000 Instantáneas de la plaga de mariposas [Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague] Entre los manejadores [Among the Handlers] En los suburbios del destino [At the City Limits of Fate] Epistrophy Así recuerdo Cartago [For Thus Do I Remember Carthage] La mano de Allegra [Allegra's Hands] La hora de Dios [God's Hour] En la sala del recuerdo [In the Memory Room] La vida considerada como un puzzle de gatos muy lustrosos [Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats] Leyendo la seda [Reading the Silks] Música de carámbanos [Icicle Music] Las miniaturas del omatidio [The Ommatidium Miniatures] Yo, Iscariote [I, Iscariot] Duc Truong Huyen's original art without text

Blue Kansas Sky
	Urbana IL: Golden Gryphon Press [ISBN 0-9655901-0-0] [hc] ($24.95) Oct 2000; 263 pp. [cover: Ron Walotsky] [4000 copies printed]
	Contents "Such Guileless Beauty in Debris": The Moral Universe of Michael Bishop [Introduction by James Morrow] Blue Kansas Sky Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana Cri de Coeur Death and Designation Among the Asadi Ron Walotky's sketch for the original cover art

Brighten to Incandescence
	Urbana IL: Golden Gryphon Press [ISBN 1-930846-16-9] [hc] ($24.95) Jun 2003; 295 pp. [cover: Jamie Bishop]
	Contents Introduction [by Lucius Shepard] Thirteen Lies About Hummingbirds The Unexpected Visit of a Reanimated Englishwoman Chihuahua Flats With a Little Help from Her Friends "We're All in This Alone" [with Paul Di Filippo] Sequel on Skorpiós Murder on Lupozny Station [with Gerald W. Page] A Tapestry of Little Murders O Happy Day Herding With the Hadrosaurs The Tigers of Hysteria Feed Only On Themselves Tithes of Mint and Rue Of Crystalline Labyrinths and the New Creation Simply Indispensable Last Night Out The Procedure Help Me, Rondo A Lingering Incandescence: Notes About the Stories

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective (edited by Michael H. Hutchins)
	Burton MI: Subterranean Press [ISBN 978-1-596069-374-7] [deluxe hardcover edition limited to 750 signed copies] ($45.00) Nov 2011; 528 pp. [cover: Lee Moyer]
	Contents Preface [by Michael H. Hutchins] Introduction [by Jack McDevitt] Piñon Fall Cathadonian Odyssey Blooded on Arachne The Samurai and the Willows The House of Compassionate Sharers Within the Walls of Tyre Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia The Quickening Dogs' Lives A Gift from the GrayLanders Taccati's Tomorrow Alien Graffiti Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats Tithes of Mint and Rue Help Me, Rondo The Door Gunner The Road Leads Back The Angst, I Kid You Not, of God Bears Discover Smut Miriam The Pile Vinegar Peace; or, The Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage The City Quiet as Death [with Steven Utley] Story Notes

Note: Collections are numbered as follows to facilitate the search for contents on the Short Fiction Chronological Listing.

[1] Blooded On Arachne
[2] One Winter in Eden
[3] Close Encounters with the Deity
[4] Emphatically Not SF, Almost
[5] At the City Limits of Fate
[6] Blue Kansas Sky
[7] Brighten to Incandescence
[8] The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy

Click here for a list of Michael Bishop stories that have not been reprinted in any of his short story collections.

Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins

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