Michael Bishop
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Recent Publications

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November 2013
A new edition of Transfigurations has been published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz / Orion Publishing. Copies can be obtained through several online dealers.

September 2013
A new edition of Ancient of Days has been published by Fairwood Press. Copies can be obtained here.

August 2013
A new edition of No Enemy But Time has been published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz / Orion Publishing. Copies can be obtained through several online dealers.

August 2012
A new edition of award-winning novel Brittle Innings was published by Fairwood Press. Copies can be obtained here.

June 2012
Novella Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow' has been published in Going Interstellar by Baen Books.

February 2012
The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, a 200,000-word retrospective collection, has been published by Subterranean Press.

January 2012
Novelette Unfit for Eden has been published in Postscripts 26/27: Unfit for Eden by PS Publishing.

July 2011
Short story Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes has been published on Tor.com.

May 2011
Nebula Award-nominated novelette Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage has been reprinted in The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011.

February 2011
Nebula Award-winning novelette The Quickening has been reprinted in Joe R. Lansdale's anthology Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror from Tachyon Publications.

November 2010
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.

June 2010
A Spanish-language edition of At the City Limits of Fate has been published by Grupo Ajec.

February 2010
Short story The Library of Babble has been published by Subterranean Online. Go here to read the story.

February 2010
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats (1991) has been reprinted in the anthology Tails of Wonder and Imagination, edited by Ellen Datlow, published by Night Shade Books.

September 2009
Anthology Passing for Human has been published by PS Publshing.   For ordering information go here.

September 2009
The Pile has been reprinted in Best New Horror, Volume 20, edited by Stephen Jones, published by Running Press in the US, and Robinson in the UK.

June 2009
Short story "The City Quiest as Death", written with Steven Utley, was published by Tor.com. Go here to read the story.

January 2009
A Spanish-language edition of Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas has been published by La Factoria de Ideas.

Fall 2008
Short story Free has been published in the Fall 2008 issue of The Chattahoochee Review.  

November 2008
Short story Purr has been published in Weird Tales.  

July 2008
Novelette Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction.  

Winter 2008
Short story The Pile has been published in Winter 2008 issue of Subterranean Magazine with a cover by Jamie Bishop.  It can be read online here.

October 2007
Dr. Prida's Dream-Plagued Patient has been reprinted in Best New Horror, Volume 18, edited by Stephen Jones, published by Robinson in the UK, and Carroll & Graf in the US.

April 2007
Anthology A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-Five Imaginative Tales About the Christ has been published by Thunder's Mouth Press. 

August 2006
Short story "Change of Life" has been reprinted in the Summer 2006 issue of the literary magazine Driftwood. 

May 2006
Short story "Dr. Prida's Dream-Plagued Patient" has been published in the Spring 2006 issue of Aberrant Dreams

November 2005
The first French edition of Stolen Faces has been published by Gallimard.

October 26 2005
A new sf story, "Bears Discover Smut", has been published on the SciFi.com website.  To read it, follow this link.

October 2005
The essay "Little, Big, Witless, Wise: The Disquieting Allure of Gulliver's Travels" has been reprinted in Subterranean Magazine #2.  To obtain a copy go here.

June 2005
A new Spanish language edition of No Enemy But Time has been published by Factoria de Ideas of Madrid.

May 2005
A Reverie for Mister Ray, a huge collection of Michael Bishop's nonfiction (more than 70 pieces from three decades of writing) has been published by PS Publishing in two hardcover editions.  Copies can obtained directly from the publisher at this link.

January 2005
Families Are Murder, an omnibus trade softcover edition of the two Will Keats mystery novels by Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo has been published by PointBlank Press, including a new introductory interview with author "Philip Lawson".

September 2004
Mainstream story "Baby Love" has been published in the fourth volume of Polyphony, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake.

September 2004
SF satire "The Angst of God" has been published in the October/November issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

August 2004
Tor Books has published Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic which reprints Michael Bishop's "The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia".  Also included in this anthology are stories by Andy Duncan, John Kessel, Fred Chappel, Jack McDevitt, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe, Michael Swanwick and F. Brett Cox.

June 2004
The Devil's Wine, a collection including fourteen poems by Michael Bishop (and almost 200 poems by eighteen more authors) has been published by Cemetery Dance.  Michael's contributions include the classic "To a Chimp Held Captive for the Purposes of Research", a new poem "Come to My House for Chili: A Rant", the prose-poem "Her Chimpanion", and five poems from his forthcoming novel An Owl at the Crucifixion.

May 2004
Horror story "The Sacerdotal Owl" has been reprinted in the March-April issue of Weird Tales.

April 2004
Mainstream story "Change of Life" has been published in the Spring issue of New York Stories.  To order a copy of the issue go to New York Stories.

March 2004
Memoir "Recalling Cody" has been published in the current issue of The Chattahoochee Review (dated Fall 2003).  To order a copy of the issue go to The Chattahoochee Review.

November 2003
Short story "Icicle Music" has been reprinted in Yuletide Universe, an anthology edited by Brian Thomsen.

October 2003
Mainstream story "The Road Leads Back" has been reprinted in Polyphony 3.

October 2003
Short-short "Menard's Disease" has been published in The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases.

September 2003
The novelette "The Door Gunner" has been reprinted in the October issue of Realms of Fantasy.

September 2003
Mainstream story "The Road Leads Back" has been published in After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia from the University of Georgia Press.

September 2003
The novelette "Among the Handlers" has been reprinted in a massive new anthology from Tor Books, The American Fantasy Tradition, edited by Brian M. Thomsen.

September 2003
The essay "Tentative Episcopal Pointers" has been published in the Summer issue of On Spec.

August 2003
A review of Suzy McKee Charnas' My Father's Ghost has been published in the August issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

June 2003
Brighten to Incandescence, with seventeen previously uncollected stories (including one new story "Last Night Out"), has been published by Golden Gryphon Press.

May 2003
The novelette "The Door Gunner" has been published in The Silver Gryphon by Golden Gryphon Press.

April 2003
The short story "Andalusian Triptych, 1962" has been published in Polyphony, Volume 2 by Wheatland Press.

April 2003
The novelette "The Sacerdotal Owl" has been published in 13 Horrors by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society.  To order a copy of 13 Horrors, go here.

January 2003
Short story "Cicada, Inc." has been published in the January issue of Interzone.

December 2002
Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo's "We're All in This Alone" has been published in the November/December issue of Interzone under their collaborative pseudonym "Philip Lawson".

Spring 2002
Mainstream short story "The Russian Agent" has been published in the Spring issue of The Chattahoochee Review.

May 2002
Short story "Help Me, Rondo" has been published in the Subterranean Press anthology J. K. Potter's Embrace the Mutation.

February 2002
The French translation of Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas has been reprinted in mass market paperback by Gallimard.

January 2002
Short story "Midwiving the World" has been published in the January issue (#15) of The Silver Web.

January 2002
The first Italian translation of Under Heaven's Bridge has been published by Urania as "The Mystery of the Kyber".

November 2001
With a Little Help From Her Friends, a softcover collection of three stories translated into Danish, has been published by Science Fiction Cirklen.

January 2001
Short-short "Her Chimpanion" has been published in the March issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

October 2000
Michael's latest book is now available from Golden Gryphon Press.  Blue Kansas Sky is a collection of four novellas, including a never-before-published story.  For an excerpt of the new novella, go here.  For Ron Walotsky's original sketch for the cover art go here.

September 2000
Short-short "Tired" has been published in the November issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

August 2000
Short story "Tithes of Mint and Rue" has been published in the anthology, Strange Attraction, which is available in a regular hardcover edition as well as limited and deluxe editions.

July 2000
ElectricStory.com has published e-book editions of two novels by Michael Bishop.  RocketEdition versions of No Enemy But Time and Unicorn Mountain are now available at BarnesandNoble.com and Powells.com

June 2000
St. Martin's Minotaur has published Muskrat Courage written by Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo under the "Philip Lawson" penname.  It features the same protagonist of Would It Kill You to Smile?.

May 2000
Century has published Mike's non-sf story "How Beautiful With Banners" in its Spring edition.  Go to Century's website for more info on how to get copies of this issue.  For an excerpt of the story click here.

April 2000
British publisher Victor Gollancz has reprinted No Enemy But Time in its SF Masterworks series.  Available as an import to the US through the amazon.co.uk website.

August 1999
The first German edition of Count Geiger's Blues (as Graph Geigers Blues) has been published by Heyne Books.  It was originally announced as "Geigerzähler Blues", which translates as "Geiger Counter Blues".  Maybe something was lost in the translation!

Graph Geigers Blues

July 1999
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has reprinted the poem/story "Secrets of the Alien Reliquary" in the July issue.

March 1999
Short story "Tithes of Mint and Rue" was previewed in the World Horror Convention Program.  It will appear in the anthology Strange Attraction from ShadowLands Press.

March 1999
Mike's poem "Philip K. Dick is Dead, a Lass" (previously available only in the QPBC's
Calendar of Days) has been reprinted in the March, 1999 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
 

December 1998
Time Pieces, Mike's poetry collection, has been published by Edgewood Press.  It includes almost all of his published poems, and more than a dozen pieces original to this collection.

Time Pieces

September 1998
Mike and Paul Di Filippo's mystery novel Would It Kill You to Smile? has been published by Longstreet Press under the pseudonym Philip Lawson.

Would It Kill You to Smile?

August 1998
"Sequel on Skorpios", a short-short story, has been published in the August, 1998 issue of the British speculative fiction magazine Interzone.

June 1998
The first German translation of Ancient of Days (as The Heart of a Hero) has been published by Heyne Books.

Ancient of Days [First German Edition]

February 1998
The German translation of Brittle Innings has been published by Heyne Books.

Brittle Innings [First German Edition]

October 1997
Mike's story "Yesterday's Hostage" has appeared in Dying For It, an anthology edited by Gardner Dozois, published by HarperPrism.




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