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Nonfiction Title:
A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction • nonfiction by Michael Bishop
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xiii • Introduction: A Reverie for Mister Mike • essay by Jeff VanderMeer
- xix • Author's Apologia: Alien Graffiti • essay by Michael Bishop
- xxv • Editor's Preface: On the Road • essay by Michael H. Hutchins
- 3 • A Reverie for Mister Ray • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1981) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 14 • A Classic Affair • (1990) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 17 • "An Art Is Something You Have to Learn": RIP Clifton Fadiman • (1999) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 21 • Little, Big, Witless, Wise: The Disquieting Allure of Gulliver's Travels • essay by Michael Bishop
- 37 • Flannery and Me • (2000) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 41 • More Than A Masterpiece? • (1990) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Introduction (More Than Human) 1989)
- 49 • A Classic's Endearing Quirks • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of The Left Hand of Darkness 1977)
- 55 • Evangels of Hope • (1978) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 69 • Believers and Heretics: An Episcopal Bull • (1980) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 81 • The Knack and How to Get It, See? • (1978) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 84 • The Contributors to Plenum Four • (1975) • short story by Michael Bishop
- 89 • Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction Since 1960 • [Viewpoint] • (1984) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 102 • Children Who Survive: An Autobiographical Meditation on Horror Fiction • (1989) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 119 • 104 Really Cool Works of Twentieth-Century Fiction in English • (1999) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 129 • Oh, to Be a Blurber! • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1980) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 140 • On Reviewing and Being Reviewed • (1977) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 156 • Critics' Night at the Sci-Fi Bistro • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1979) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 171 • Review: The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe • (1976) • review by Michael Bishop
- 175 • Review: Timescape by Gregory Benford • (1980) • review by Michael Bishop
- 178 • Review: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler • (1981) • review by Michael Bishop
- 181 • Review: Myths of the Near Future by J. G. Ballard • (1984) • review by Michael Bishop
- 185 • Two by John Crowley • essay by Michael Bishop
- 185 • Review: Little, Big by John Crowley • (1983) • review by Michael Bishop
- 188 • Review: Antiquities: Seven Stories by John Crowley • (1994) • review by Michael Bishop
- 192 • Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card • (1987) • review by Michael Bishop
- 198 • Review: The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury • (1988) • review by Michael Bishop
- 202 • Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy • essay by Michael Bishop
- 202 • Review: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson • (1993) • review by Michael Bishop
- 206 • Review: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson • (1994) • review by Michael Bishop
- 209 • Review: Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson • (1996) • review by Michael Bishop
- 213 • Review: Nightfishing in Great Sky River: Poems of Inner and Outer Space by David Lunde • (2000) • review by Michael Bishop
- 217 • Review: The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll • (2001) • review by Michael Bishop
- 220 • Review: He Do the Time Police in Different Voices by David Langford • (2004) • review by Michael Bishop
- 225 • The Untethered Spacewalk by NASA • (1984) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 231 • In Pursuit of Ubik • (1980) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Introduction (Ubik) 1979)
- 245 • Gene Wolfe As Hero • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1980) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 246 • Review: The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe • (1980) • review by Michael Bishop
- 251 • Baying at the Wolfe, or The Wolfe At Bay • (1980) • interview of Gene Wolfe • interview by Michael Bishop
- 255 • Only in America • (1981) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 255 • Review: On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch • (1981) • review by Michael Bishop
- 261 • James Morrow and Towing Jehovah • (1994) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 275 • James Morrow's Antidote X: Speculative Satire and "The Eternal Footman" • (2000) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 284 • The Education of Brian W. Aldiss • (1999) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman)
- 291 • "Sitting in the Sun in the Waist-High Grass" • (2001) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 297 • An Interview • (2001) • interview of Gardner Dozois • interview by Michael Bishop
- 303 • In Praise of Hollyhocks • essay by Michael Bishop
- 309 • A Speculation of SF Writers • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1980) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 322 • All That Glitters Is Not Golding... or Bishop Either • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1985) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 334 • James Tiptree, Jr. Is Raccoona Sheldon Is Alice B. Sheldon Is Alli Is ... • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1992) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 346 • Saluting Pamela Sargent • (1987) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Foreword (The Best of Pamela Sargent))
- 355 • The Once and Future Andy Duncan • (2000) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Foreword: The Once and Future Andy Duncan)
- 364 • Voice and Virtue: Celebrating Jack McDevitt • (2003) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Celebrating Jack McDevitt)
- 373 • Ink and Inspiration Among the Soft Sciences • (1981) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 380 • Lucy in the Mud with Footprints • (1981) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind)
- 384 • The Boy in the Bush • (1982) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 388 • Mysteries of the Rift Valley • (1984) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Disclosing the Past)
- 393 • The Fate of the Primate • (1989) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey Into Primate Worlds)
- 396 • Prospectus for a Novel of Human Prehistory, or The Origins of "No Enemy But Time" • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1985) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 407 • Primates in Love • (1987) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of The Female of the Species)
- 410 • Geniuses in One Another's Pockets • (1981) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Neighboring Lives)
- 413 • Two by J. G. Ballard • essay by Michael Bishop
- 413 • Review: Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 415 • Review: The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard • (1988) • review by Michael Bishop
- 419 • Two by Philip K. Dick • essay by Michael Bishop
- 419 • Review: In Milton Lumky Territory by Philip K. Dick • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 419 • Review: The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike by Philip K. Dick • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 423 • A Jeremiad, Three Reviews, and a Postscript • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1986) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 428 • Review: Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 430 • Review: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 433 • Review: Contact by Carl Sagan • (1985) • review by Michael Bishop
- 438 • Inconvenient Invitations • (1991) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 441 • Review: Mister Touch by Malcolm Bosse • (1991) • review by Michael Bishop
- 445 • Review: Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd • (1991) • review by Michael Bishop
- 449 • Watching the Elephant Vanish • (1994) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of The Elephant Vanishes)
- 454 • A Near-Future Southern, An Off-Trail Western • essay by Michael Bishop
- 454 • Review: Land O'Goshen by Charles McNair • (1995) • review by Michael Bishop
- 459 • A Larger Sky • (1995) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 459 • Review: The Norton Book of Ghost Stories by Brad Leithauser • (1995) • review by Michael Bishop
- 459 • Review: Seaward by Brad Leithauser • (1995) • review by Michael Bishop
- 468 • An American Wordsmith in Atlantis • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Atlantis: Three Tales 1996)
- 474 • Touring the Republic of Pain • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Ingenious Pain 1999)
- 478 • Encounter of a Wee Kind • (1978) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 487 • Military Brat: A Memoir • (1997) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 519 • First Novel, Seventh Novel: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire • [Pitching Pennies Against the Starboard Bulkhead] • (1988) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 534 • My Private Civil War • (1993) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Preface: A Confederacy of the Dead)
- 541 • Three Tributes • essay by Michael Bishop
- 541 • Paul Di Filippo: Picasso of the Mails • (2002) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Salt-Water Taffy and the Pompatics or A Few Words About Paul Di Filippo)
- 544 • David Hartwell: "Rescue Me!" • (2001) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of David Hartwell)
- 546 • Howard Waldrop: Howard's Generosity • (2003) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of Howard's Generosity)
- 550 • Cleansing the Eye of the Heart • (2001) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 553 • Ghost of a Chance • (2003) • essay by Michael Bishop (variant of My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances)
- 558 • Nine Prescriptions for My Funeral • (1997) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 567 • Writing SF As If It Mattered • (2002) • essay by Michael Bishop
- 571 • Tiny Bells • (2002) • short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
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