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Close Encounters with the Deity
| Author: | Michael Bishop |
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Peachtree Publishers, 1986 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Through the means of what he calls "speculative fiction", Michael Bishop examines the various links between man and the supernatural by exploring the relationships and conflicts between mortals and deities of other worlds, in other times and within other cultures. His scope isn't limited to alien environments, however. Bishop's talent for transforming the commonplace into the fantastic often reaches into our own backyards, and the results are astounding:
- A father's love for his son and the influence of the evangelist's strange teachings prompt a desperate and violent act.
- In a surreal world of unceasing movies where the inhabitants serve constantly as an audience, one man seeks to confront he ultimate power which controls their lives.
- A young boy's talent for ventriloquism results in an irresistible summons from an all-powerful source.
- A Midwestern farmer's compelling visions draw him to the oceanic god of an unusual cult.
- Mysterious airborne hieroglyphics become a young scientist's obsession.
With these and other stories, Michael Bishop weaves a colourful tapestry of character, theme and circumstance which attests to his position as on of the best in the field.
Table of Contents:
- Religion and Science Fiction - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
- Close Encounter With the Deity - (1986) - shortstory
- Voices - (1986) - novelette
- A Spy in the Domain of Arnheim - (1981) - novelette
- Love's Heresy - (1979) - shortstory
- Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour - (1979) - shortstory
- Dogs' Lives - (1984) - novelette
- A Gift from the GrayLanders - (1985) - novelette
- A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D. - (1980) - shortstory
- Diary of a Dead Man - shortstory
- Scrimptalon's Test - (1984) - shortstory by Michael Bishop and Gerald W. Page
- The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. - (1985) - shortstory
- Alien Graffiti (A Personal History of Vagrant Intrusions) - (1986) - shortstory
- And the Marlin Spoke - (1983) - novelette
- The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's Testimony) - (1983) - novella
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