The Official Michael Bishop Website

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A Message from Michael Bishop concerning his son, Jamie.

Special Announcement

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, a 200,000-word retrospective collection will be published in a signed-limited edition by Subterranean Press in January 2012. It was edited by Michael H. Hutchins and has an introduction by Jack McDevitt. There are 25 stories spanning forty years of Michael's short fiction, with accompanying author's notes about each story. Among them are several award-winning pieces, and eight never-before-collected stories. Cover art is by Lee Moyer (click on the image to see a larger version). The publisher's announcement can be read here. Discounted copies can be pre-ordered from Amazon.

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.

Never-before-published novelette Unfit for Eden will be the featured story in the next issue (#26/27) of Postscripts, to be published later this year by PS Publishing.

Michael's new story, a tribute to David G. Hartwell on his 70th birthday, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, has been posted on Tor.com.

The Pile has won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story of 2008, To read the story online go here. For a list of all the winners go here.

New short story "The Library of Babble", has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Subterranean.

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 from Amazon. Go here for the list of contents.

Michael Bishop and Steven Utley's anthology Passing for Human has been published by PS Publishing with cover art by Jamie Bishop. For ordering information go here.

The City Quiet as Death, a story by Steven Utley and Michael Bishop, has been posted on the Tor.com website. You can also listen to a reading of the story by Michael Bishop here. It is also available in Kindle ebook from Amazon.

Purr has been published in the November-December 2008 issue of Weird Tales. To order a copy here.

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

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 Subterranean Magazine with cover art work by Jamie. "Purr" was published in Weird Tales. Another story, "The Library of Babble", has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Subterranean. Here's a link to Michael's poem, Jamie's Hair, published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage, the 2010 Nebula Award-nominated novelette has been reprinted in The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011. A reading of the story can be heard on StarShipSofa.com.

Nebula Award-winning novelette The Quickening has been reprinted in Joe R. Lansdale's anthology Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror from Tachyon Publications.

Sariela; or, Spiritual Dysfunction & Counterangelic Longings: A Case Study in One Act has been reprinted in the Stephen Jones-edited anthology Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, published by Ulysses Press.

Mainstream story Free was published in the Fall 2008 issue of The Chattahoochee Review.

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, was published by PS Publishing. For more information on the collection's contents, go here. Copies are no longer available through the publisher, but may be purchased from book dealers.

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. A copy can be ordered from Amazon.

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.

For a listing of recent publications go here.

Bibliography compiled and website maintained by Michael H. Hutchins

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