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Michael Bishop


USA flag (1945 - 2023)

aka Philip Lawson

Michael Bishop was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. After receiving a master's degree in English from the University of Georgia, Bishop taught at the USAF Academy Preparatory School in Colorado, but soon began placing his short stories with the science fiction magazines. His first novel, A FUNERAL FOR THE EYES OF FIRE, was first published in 1975 and was followed by such critically acclaimed works as AND STRANGE AT ECBATAN THE TREES, STOLEN FACES, A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, CATACOMB YEARS, TRANSFIGURATIONS, ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DIETY, ANCIENT DAYS, and COUNTER GEIGER'S BLUES. Bishop's shorter fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals, anthologies, and best-of-the-year compilations.
 

Awards: Jackson (2009), Mythopoeic (1989), Nebula (1982)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
 
Series
Urban Nucleus
   1. A Little Knowledge (1977)
   2. Catacomb Years (1979)
   3. Under Heaven's Bridge (1980) (with Ian Watson)
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Will Keats (as by Philip Lawson)
   1. Would It Kill You to Smile? (1998)
   2. Muskrat Courage (2000)
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Novels
   A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
   Beneath the Shattered Moons (1976)
     aka And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
   Stolen Faces (1977)
   Eyes of Fire (1979)
   Transfigurations (1979)
   No Enemy But Time (1982)
   Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984)
   Ancient of Days (1985)
   Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas (1987)
     aka The Secret Ascension
   Unicorn Mountain (1988)
   Count Geiger's Blues (1992)
   Brittle Innings (1994)
   Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls (2016)
   The City and the Cygnets (2019)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Changes (1983) (with Ian Watson)
   Light Years and Dark (1984)
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Series contributed to
Nebula Award Stories
   23. Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
   24. Nebula Awards 24 (1990)
   25. Nebula Awards 25 (1991)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Michael Bishop
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The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison
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The Final Frontier (2018)
Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact
edited by
Neil Clarke

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Awards
2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction : The Pile
1995 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : Brittle Innings
1989 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award : Unicorn Mountain
1985 Locus Award for Best Anthology : Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time
1984 Locus Award for Best Novella : Her Habiline Husband
1982 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : The Quickening
1982 Nebula Award for Best Novel : No Enemy But Time
1977 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Samurai and the Willows

Award nominations
2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Rattlesnakes and Men
2013 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Twenty Lights to 'The Last of Snow'
2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Door Gunner: And Other Perilous Flights of Fancy
2010 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage
2006 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Bears Discover Smut
2004 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories
2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Blue Kansas Sky
2001 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Blue Kansas Sky
2001 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Blue Kansas Sky
1997 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : At the City Limits of Fate
1996 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : I, Iscariot
1996 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : At the City Limits of Fate
1996 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Brittle Innings
1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Brittle Innings
1995 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Cri de Coeur
1995 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Cri de Coeur
1995 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Brittle Innings
1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Cri de Coeur
1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Brittle Innings
1993 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats
1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Count Geiger's Blues
1992 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana
1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana
1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Ommatidium Miniatures
1990 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana
1989 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Unicorn Mountain
1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas
1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Ancient of Days
1987 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Close Encounters With the Deity
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Gift from the GrayLanders
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Ancient of Days
1986 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Gift from the GrayLanders
1985 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Who Made Stevie Crye?
1985 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : One Winter in Eden
1984 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Monkey's Bride
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Her Habiline Husband
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Esterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention
1984 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
1983 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : No Enemy But Time
1983 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Blooded on Arachne
1983 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : No Enemy But Time
1982 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Quickening
1982 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : No Enemy But Time
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Eyes of Fire
1980 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Vernalfest Morning
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Transfigurations
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Catacomb Years
1980 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Transfigurations
1979 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Within the Walls of Tyre
1979 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Old Folks at Home
1978 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A Little Knowledge
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Samurai and the Willows
1977 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Samurai and the Willows
1976 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Blooded on Arachne [short story]
1976 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
1976 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Allegiances
1976 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Rogue Tomato
1975 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : On the Street of the Serpents
1975 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
1975 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : On the Street of the Serpents
1975 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Cathadonian Odyssey
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The White Otters of Childhood
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Death and Designation Among the Asadi
1974 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The White Otters of Childhood
1974 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Death and Designation Among the Asadi
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The White Otters of Childhood
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Death and Designation Among the Asadi


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