@booklet {11584, title = {"Yahweh{\textquoteright}s Hour"}, howpublished = {A Few Last Words for the Immortals}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {224-229, with a note on the text on 242}, publisher = {Kudzu Planet/Fairwood Press}, address = {Bonney Lake, WA}, abstract = {

Brief fundamentalist religious dystopia based, as the author says on 242, on the beliefs of the supporters of Donald Trump.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-933846-12-5}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)}, editor = {Michael H. Hutchins} } @booklet {10965, title = {"The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century"}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {465 pp.}, publisher = {Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press}, address = {Bonney Lake, WA }, abstract = {

The volume brings together, revises, and adds to his UrNu (Urban Nucleus) cycle set in a domed Atlanta, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of a range of its inhabitants. Reprints his Catacomb Years (1979), substantially revises his A Little Knowledge (1977), and adds \“Interlude: After Jalyrica\’s Fall\” 398-99), \“Prelude: The Domes\” (21-24), \“Death Rehearsals\” (400-56), a \“Chronology\” (457-60), and an \“Author\’s Afterword: With a Little Help From My Friends . . . and My Betters\” (461-63).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781933846781}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {11958, title = { {\textquotedblleft}Rattlesnakes and Men{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction}, volume = {39.2 (469) }, year = {2015}, month = {February 2015}, pages = {10-28}, abstract = {

A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop\’s \“Georgia stories.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {. 1065-6298}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {3800, title = {The Secret Ascension: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas}, year = {1987}, note = {

U.K. ed. as\ Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas. London: Grafton, 1988.

}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history. The United States won the war in Vietnam and President Nixon is in his fourth term.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {3529, title = {"Fears"}, howpublished = {Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 306-22; in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 281-90 with an editors\’ note on 280; in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 141-51; in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 189-201 with an \“Afterword to \‘Fears\’\” (202); in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 277-88, which gives the wrong date of the original publication; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 299-309.\ 

}, month = {1984}, pages = {174-83}, publisher = {Berkley Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pamela Sargent (b. 1948)}, editor = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {3503, title = {"School Days"}, howpublished = {Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time}, year = {1984}, month = {1984}, pages = {314-22}, publisher = {Berkley Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopian computer-based education of the future compared to the failed education of our day.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015)}, editor = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {9197, title = {"The Byrds"}, howpublished = {Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical}, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 188-99.

}, month = {1983}, pages = {97-111}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story, which is about people who use technology, such as anti-gravity belts, to emulate birds, is set in a future with restrictions on population size that encourages the elderly to be euthanized. The Department of Rest establishes how much the population has to fall and sends out a monthly brochure Your Choice for Peace to senior citizens with a form in which that are asked to \“describe all that is good about their life, and a few of the things which bug them. At the end of the form is a box in which the oldster indicates his preference for Life or Peace. If he does not check the box, or if he fails to complete the form, it is assumed that he has chosen Peace, and the send the Wagon for him\” (189). This is a very small part of the story.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author}, author = {Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005)}, editor = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) and Ian Watson (b. 1943)} } @booklet {3071, title = {Catacomb Years}, year = {1979}, note = {

Parts were originally published as \“If a Flower Could Eclipse.\”\ Worlds of Fantasy\ 1.3 (Winter 1970-71): 152-83; rpt. in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 25-49, together with the \“Interlude: The Testimony of Leland Tanner\” (50-53); \“Old Folks at Home.\”\ Universe 8. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 1-48. Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, [1978]), 7-63; in\ The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year $\#$1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 54-109; and in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 54-98, together with the \“Interlude: The City Takes Care of Its Own\” (99-100); \“The Windows in Dante\’s Hell.\”\ Orbit 12. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1973): 28-45; rpt. in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14, together with the \“Interlude: Volplaning Heroes\” (115-16); \“The Samurai and the Willows.\”\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 52.2 (297) (February 1976): 5-45; rpt. in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 117-55, together with the \“Interlude: First Councilor Jarboe\” (156-60); \“Allegiances.\”\ GalaxyScience Fiction\ 36.2 (February 1975): 20-62; rpt. in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 161-203, together with the \“Interlude: The Cradle Begins to Rock\” (204-05); and \“At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoofly-Pie Kid.\”\ Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy\ 1.4 (November 1977): 18-21, 23-25; rpt. in his\ The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century\ (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 206-20, together with the \“Interlude: The Introduction to\ Out and Back Again\” (221-27).

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Berkley/Putnam}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire. Future domed city and the inhabitants. Includes, in \"Old Folks at Home,\" a communal utopia for senior citizens and, in \"The Windows in Dante\&$\#$39;s Hell,\" an overpopulation, class-based dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {2922, title = {A Little Knowledge}, year = {1977}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1978.\ Substantially revised in His The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 228-97.

}, month = {1977}, publisher = {Berkley/Putnam}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of Christian fundamentalism and religious revivals in a future fragmented United States and the arrival of Aliens.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)} } @booklet {2627, title = {"The Windows in Dante{\textquoteright}s Hell"}, howpublished = {Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {39-59}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023)}, editor = {Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002)} }