Count Geigers Blues

Remember me not recommended for public devices. I forgot my password Password Reset. Sign up for a new account. Please select region, state or province. Count Geiger's Blues Michael Bishop. Go to Cart Keep Shopping. Thomas Disch writes "Bishop is determined to write about human goodness without resorting to the mock heroics of formula adventure stories. There are no villains in the book, even among the habilines. The central and absorbing drama of the book is the hero's growing love for the habiline, Helen.

Looming behind this love story is a larger theme, the formation across the entire span of history of the Family of Man, a phrase that becomes, as the novel ripens to its conclusion, no mere liberal piety but a fully realized dramatic affirmation. All others are at least stiff. Some are outright caricatures. The book is not faultless, but it is overall a pleasure to read… Its treatment of anthropology is so effective that the few flaws are easily overlooked.

This book is the work of a talented and serious writer. Bishop followed-up his award-winning science fiction novel with a contemporary novel set in the rural American South. Mary Stevenson "Stevie" Crye is a young widow with two children struggling to take care of her family as a freelance writer. Her typewriter has started to act up, automatically transcribing her nightmares and subsequently her future.

This original edition, as well as the British edition, was photographically illustrated by J. When David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his book Modern Fantasy: Even when it looks like standard mass-produced pop lit, it actually is nudging us toward something more disturbing and hilarious than we're comfortable imagining. It finally is impressive enough to be uneasily recommended.

Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy

Collins, chides the reviewer with the footnote "Ignore Sanders' uneasiness, which obviously stems from his difficulty in pegging the book's genre; Stevie Crye is a marvelous book which transcends genre, as all the best of Bishop does. It's the story of "Adam", one of the last surviving Homo habilis who is discovered in contemporary Georgia. In this thematic companion to his novel No Enemy But Time with an almost inverse conceit , Bishop tackles issues of racial and cultural prejudice, and explores the question of what it means to be human. Locus reviewer Debbie Notkin writes "This is science fiction so precise and so well-thought-out that it reads like history, although little history is so well-written, or cares so much about its characters.

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Delany writes "A wonder-filled novel of ideas—ideas that include questions of race, science, art, and spirituality, among many others. Bishop dramatizes each of these with a panache and a narrative energy that are a delight to read and dazzling to watch.

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Clarke Award in Originally published as The Secret Ascension by Tor Books in but subsequently reprinted with the author's preferred title , this work is an homage to writer Philip K. Dick , a pastiche of his style, and includes an alternate reality version of Dick as a character. The novel is set in a world in which Richard Milrose Nixon, in his fourth term as president, holds fascistic control over America, and the science fiction works of Philip K. Dick remain unpublished, distributed underground as samizdat , while his realist fiction titles are the ones that are celebrated as masterpieces.

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Author and reviewer Orson Scott Card writes that "the climax is not just an inward epiphany for a character… [T]he world changes in wonderful strange ways, and the audience can read the book passionately, with sweating fingers, eager to see what happens next, yet reluctant to leave the present moment. A writer who is already one of the best, taking risks and finding ways to be better. Bishop is a solid, serious writer whose reach in his previous work has always seemed to me to exceed his grasp. Here, he catches some of Dick's fire, especially in the early chapters… Then a lot happens very quickly as in some of Dick's own novels , and the satire, which should hold things together, turns predictable.

But…the ending starring Philip K. Award-winning author Nancy Kress writes "Michael Bishop has pulled off a rare and amazing feat. Unicorn Mountain successfully weaves such traditional fantasy elements as unicorns and Indian lore together with the all-too-contemporary He wrote a novel about constructing a tribe To do it, he had to bring us to know and understand and care about more fully-created characters than most writers produce in a career. Xavier Thaxton, protagonist of Count Geiger's Blues: When he is accidentally exposed to illegally dumped nuclear waste, the radiation exposure turns him into a superhero or, as Bishop has designated, a "stalwart".

Analog reviewer Tom Easton writes about the novel's resolution: The satire he has painstakingly created now teeters on the brink of farce. He quite properly makes the decision to yank it back from that brink, but then he loses the satire. He becomes heavy-handed and obvious. Count Geiger's Blues also goes beyond humor — well beyond, in its remarkable closing chapters. But they build on all that has gone before. In unleashing a startling talent for comedy and a wide-ranging knowledge of pop culture in both its absurdity and its splendor, Michael Bishop has written his best book yet.

It's as if Bishop is running riffs on whatever wacky ideas come to hand, without much plan, holding his characters at arm's length; as if, trying to avoid sententiousness, he has to avoid caring — but in the end can't. The result being a loose, baggy sort of book. Brittle Innings could for most intents and purposes be considered a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

This simple designation only begins to describe this emotionally and creatively complex story. The novel, published in by Bantam Books , attempts to answer the questions: What if the doctor's much maligned creation managed to survive his Arctic pursuit? Author and critic Brian Stableford writes that "no potential reader should allow himself or herself to be put off by the seeming freakishness of its premise… There is not a wasted image or phrase in the text, which is extraordinarily rich and eminently readable from beginning to end.

It is a very fine book indeed…" Concerning its relationship to Shelley's novel, Stableford writes that " Brittle Innings seems to me to be the best sequel imaginable. Bishop's fine prose makes each of these plot lines well worth reading, but they belong in separate novels.

Bishop's first novel for young people "whatever their age" was published in June by the Fairwood Press imprint Kudzu Planet Productions. Ten-year-old Joel-Brock Lollis returns home from a baseball game to discover that his parents and sister have been kidnapped, and proceeds to recruit two employees of the local big-box department store in his quest to rescue his family.

Reviewer Paul Di Filippo writes "Bishop's prodigious powers of invention serve him well here too.

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