Michael Bishop is een bejubelde Amerikaanse auteur van sciencefiction en fantasy, wiens uitgebreide oeuvre wordt gekenmerkt door diepgaande verkenningen van de menselijke psychologie en maatschappelijke thema's. Zijn schrijven overstijgt vaak genre-grenzen en combineert introspectieve verhalen met futuristische en fantastische elementen. Hij duikt regelmatig in morele dilemma's en complexe interpersoonlijke relaties in onconventionele settings. Bishops vermogen om inzichtelijke personages en sfeervolle werelden te creëren, verstevigt zijn status als een belangrijke stem in de moderne speculatieve fictie.
"Unicorn Mountain, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel, includes ranching in Colorado, Ute Indian lore, a Denver-based advertising firm, Swing Era music, an old Bendix TV set that transmits signals from an askew parallel Earth, and, last but no less disquieting, transdimensional migrations of living unicorns."--Publisher marketing
After accidental contact with radioactive waste, Xavier Thaxton, an art critic for a great metropolitan newspaper and an avowed enemy of popular culture, is gradually forced to assume the role of a comic book superhero.
Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams. In early Pleistocene Africa, living among the prehuman species Homo habilis, experiencing the same hardships and the same intense pleasures, Joshua finds, for the first time in his troubled life, not only contentment but real love - a love that transcends almost everything. Intelligent, thoughtful and deeply moving, No Enemy But Time brilliantly evokes the remote past and, at the same time, presents a powerful and convincing portrayal of a relationship surmounting even the most daunting barriers. It is a challenging and highly original novel exploring the nature and origins of humankind.
Now a dozen years old, the award-winning collection continues to provide dozens of the best stories of the year, including work by renowned veterans and exciting newcomers, including Stephen Baxter, Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Michael F. Flyn, Lisa Goldstein, Jose Haldemnan, Katherine Kerr, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, Mary Rosenblum.
Dva známé dobrodružné romány zpracované netradičním způsobem. Dobře pojatý příběh bojovníka, který neohroženě se svými kamarády brání obyvatelstvo a chce zpátky co náleží. Je zde zápletka se ženou, do které se zamiloval, ale ona byla z bohaté rodiny a on chudý.
