This is a very strange book. It reads like a hybrid of Frankenstein and Ball Four with only a fraction of those books' talents. To be fair, it DID keep me engaged. Bishop clearly knows the game of baseball and creates a highly believable baseball world in the American south during World War II. H...
finally got around to reading this after first discovering it on the jones and newman 100 best horror stories of all time list about ten years ago.great list, by the way... led me to The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories, and The Ce...
Originally published on my blog here in October 2002.After the death of Philip K. Dick, Michael Bishop seemed to be the author most willing to follow in his footsteps. He has written a direct tribute (Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alass) but, more importantly, has taken on the question more central to ...
The novel is based on an excellent novella, Death and Designation among the Asadi, a runner-up for the 1973 Hugo Award, narrowly beaten out by Gene Wolfe’s The Death of Doctor Island. It’s anthropological sf, a strange sort of sub-niche. The mc goes on a journey to an alien planet and lives among...