TY - ABST T1 - "Yahweh's Hour" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Michael H. Hutchins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - A Few Last Words for the Immortals PB - Kudzu Planet/Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA SN - 978-1-933846-12-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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).

PB - Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA SN - 9781933846781 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rattlesnakes and Men” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.”

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.2 (469) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Ascension: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Byrds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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. 

JF - Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catacomb Years Y1 - 1979 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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's Hell," an overpopulation, class-based dystopia.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

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.” Galaxy Science 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).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Little Knowledge Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Windows in Dante's Hell" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

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.

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