“Buddha Nostril Bird”
Title | “Buddha Nostril Bird” |
Year for Search | 1990 |
Authors | Kessel, John [Joseph Vincent](b. 1950) |
Secondary Title | Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine |
Volume / Edition | 14.3 (154) |
Pagination | 56-75 |
Date Published | March 1990 |
ISBN Number | 978-1-64524-058-7 |
ISSN Number | 1065-6298 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574. |
Illustration | Illus. Pat Morrissey (b. 1954) |
Author Note | (b. 1950) |
Full Text | 1990 Kessel, John [Joseph Vincent] (b. 1950). “Buddha Nostril Bird.” Illus. Pat Morrissey (b. 1954). Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.3 (154) (March 1990): 56-75. Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574. A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume. |