Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an award-winning American writer. Over five decades, he created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy literature.
Easton Press Michael Bishop books
No Enemy But Time - Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 1991
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Who is Michael Bishop?
Michael Bishop is the son of Leotis ("Lee") Bishop (born 1920 in Frye's Mill, Arkansas) and Maxine ("Mac") Elaine Matison (born 1920 in Ashland, Nebraska). His parents met in the summer of 1942 when his father, a recent enlistee of the Air Force, was stationed in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bishop's childhood was the peripatetic life of a military brat. He went to kindergarten in Tokyo, Japan, and he spent his senior year of high school in Seville, Spain. His parents divorced in 1951, and Bishop spent summers wherever his father happened to be based.
Bishop entered the University of Georgia in 1963, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1967, before going on to complete a master's degree in English. In 1969, he married Jeri Ellis Whitaker of Columbus, Georgia. He taught English (including a course in science fiction) at the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968 to 1972. After his service career, he taught composition and English literature at the University of Georgia in Athens. A son, Jamie, was born in 1971, and a daughter, Stephanie was born in 1973. Bishop left teaching in 1974 to become a full-time writer. In those early years of freelance writing, he would occasionally work as a substitute teacher in the public schools and as a stringer for the Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus.
In 1996, Bishop became writer-in-residence at LaGrange College located near his home (built in the 1890s) in Pine Mountain, Georgia. He has held this position ever since. Bishop teaches creative-writing courses and an occasional January interim-term course.
Bishop died from cancer on November 13, 2023.
Michael Bishop books in order
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (1976)
Stolen Faces (1977)
A Little Knowledge (1977)
Catacomb Years (1979)
Transfigurations (1979)
Eyes of Fire (1980)
Under Heaven's Bridge (1981, with Ian Watson)
No Enemy But Time (1982)
Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984)
Ancient of Days (1985)
The Secret Ascension (1987) (later republished Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas)
Unicorn Mountain (1988)
Count Geiger's Blues (1992)
Brittle Innings (1994)
Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls (2016)
Will Keats series
Lawson, Philip (1998)
— (2000)
Short fiction collections
Blooded on Arachne (1982)
One Winter in Eden (1984)
Close Encounters With the Deity (1986)
Emphatically Not SF, Almost (1990)
At the City Limits of Fate (1996)
Blue Kansas Sky (2000)
Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories (2003)
The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective (2012)
Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories (2017)
The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales of Calamity, Pilgrimage, and Atonement (2018)
The City and the Cygnets (2019)
A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals (2021)
Anthologies
Changes (1983, with Ian Watson)
Light Years and Dark (1984)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
Nebula Awards 24 (1990)
Nebula Awards 25 (1991)
A Cross of Centuries (2007)
Passing for Human (2009, with Steven Utley)
Stories, novellas and novelettes
Death and Designation Among the Asadi (1973)
The White Otters of Childhood (1973)
Cathadonian Odyssey (1974)
On the Street of the Serpents (1974)
Rogue Tomato (1975)
The Samurai and the Willows (1976)
The House of Compassionate Sharers (1977)
Old Folks at Home (1978)
Within the Walls of Tyre (1978)
Vernalfest Morning (1978)
Seasons of Belief (1979)
Cold War Orphans (1980)
The Quickening (1981)
The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (1983)
Her Habiline Husband (1983)
The Monkey's Bride (1983)
Dogs' Lives (1984)
A Gift from the GrayLanders (1985)
For Thus Do I Remember Carthage (1987)
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana (1989)
The Ommatidium Miniatures (1989)
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats (1991)
Cri de Coeur (1994)
I, Iscariot (1995)
Among the Handlers (1996)
Sequel on Skorpiós (1998)
Blue Kansas Sky (2000)
The Sacerdotal Owl (2003)
The Door Gunner (2003)
The Road Leads Back (2003)
Bears Discover Smut (2005)
Vinegar Peace; or, The Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage (2008)
The Pile (2008)
The City Quiet as Death (2009, with Steven Utley)
Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow' (2012)
Rattlesnakes and Men (2015)
Gale Strang (2017)
Yahweh's Hour (2021)
Poetry Collections
Windows and Mirrors (1977)
Time Pieces (1998)
Non-fiction
A Reverie for Mister Ray (2005)
Source and additional information: Michael Bishop (author)