Michael Bishop es un aclamado autor estadounidense de ciencia ficción y fantasía, cuyo extenso cuerpo de obra se distingue por su profunda exploración de la psicología humana y los temas sociales. Su escritura a menudo trasciende los límites del género, mezclando narrativas introspectivas con elementos futuristas y fantásticos. Con frecuencia se adentra en dilemas morales y complejas relaciones interpersonales en entornos poco convencionales. La habilidad de Bishop para crear personajes perspicaces y mundos evocadores solidifica su estatus como una voz significativa en la ficción especulativa moderna.
"Unicorn Mountain, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel, includes ranching in Colorado, Ute Indian lore, a Denver-based advertising firm, Swing Era music, an old Bendix TV set that transmits signals from an askew parallel Earth, and, last but no less disquieting, transdimensional migrations of living unicorns."--Publisher marketing
After accidental contact with radioactive waste, Xavier Thaxton, an art critic for a great metropolitan newspaper and an avowed enemy of popular culture, is gradually forced to assume the role of a comic book superhero.
Joshua Kampa is torn between two worlds - the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the 20th-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a temporal crossroads where he must decide whether the past or the future will be his present.
Now a dozen years old, the award-winning collection continues to provide dozens of the best stories of the year, including work by renowned veterans and exciting newcomers, including Stephen Baxter, Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Michael F. Flyn, Lisa Goldstein, Jose Haldemnan, Katherine Kerr, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, Mary Rosenblum.
Dva známé dobrodružné romány zpracované netradičním způsobem. Dobře pojatý příběh bojovníka, který neohroženě se svými kamarády brání obyvatelstvo a chce zpátky co náleží. Je zde zápletka se ženou, do které se zamiloval, ale ona byla z bohaté rodiny a on chudý.
