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Michael Bishop

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born

November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.michaelbishop-writer.com/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

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Michael Lawson Bishop is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades & thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern sf & fantasy literature.

Bishop received a bachelor's from the Univ. of Georgia in 1967, going on to complete a master's in English. He taught English at the US Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968-72 & then at the Univ. of Georgia. He also taught a course in science fiction at the US Air Force Academy in 1971. He left teaching in 1974 to become a full-time writer.
Bishop has been awarded the Nebula in 1981 for "The Quickening" (Best Novelette) & in 1982 for No Enemy But Time (Best Novel). He's also received four Locus Awards &...more Michael Lawson Bishop is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades & thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern sf & fantasy literature.

Bishop received a bachelor's from the Univ. of Georgia in 1967, going on to complete a master's in English. He taught English at the US Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968-72 & then at the Univ. of Georgia. He also taught a course in science fiction at the US Air Force Academy in 1971. He left teaching in 1974 to become a full-time writer.
Bishop has been awarded the Nebula in 1981 for "The Quickening" (Best Novelette) & in 1982 for No Enemy But Time (Best Novel). He's also received four Locus Awards & his work has been nominated for numerous Hugos. He & British author Ian Watson collaborated on a novel set in the universe of one of Bishop’s earlier works. He's also written two mystery novels with Paul Di Filippo, under the joint pseudonym Philip Lawson. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Bishop has published more than 125 pieces of short fiction which have been gathered in seven collections. His stories have appeared in Playboy, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Missouri Review, the Indiana Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Georgia Review, Omni & Interzone.

In addition to fiction, Bishop has published poetry gathered in two collections & won the 1979 Rhysling Award for his poem "For the Lady of a Physicist." He's also had essays & reviews published in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Omni Magazine & the NY Review of Science Fiction. A collection of his nonfiction, A Reverie for Mister Ray, was issued in 2005 by PS Publishing.
He's written introductions to books by Philip K. Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree, Jr., Pamela Sargent, Gardner Dozois, Lucius Shepard, Mary Shelley, Andy Duncan, Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Holland Rogers & Rhys Hughes. He's edited six anthologies, including the Locus Award-winning Light Years & Dark & A Cross of Centuries: 25 Imaginative Tales about the Christ, published by Thunder’s Mouth Press shortly before the company closed.

In recent years, Bishop has returned to teaching & is writer-in-residence at LaGrange College located near his home in Pine Mountain, GA. He & his wife, Jeri, have a daughter & two grandchildren. His son, Christopher James Bishop, was one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre on 4/16/07.(less)

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Books by Michael Bishop

Average rating: 3.69 · 1,553 ratings · 186 reviews · 116 distinct works

	Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas 3.64 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	No Enemy but Time 3.25 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Brittle Innings 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy 3.57 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Unicorn Mountain 3.33 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ancient Of Days 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Who Made Stevie Crye? 3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Catacomb Years 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Transfigurations 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blue Kansas Sky by Michael Bishop, James K. Morrow (Introduction) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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