Transfigurations by Michael Bishop - ISBN: 9780575093096
Paperback
Alien rituals, a lost father, and a terrifying, devolved truth.

Transfigurations

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    14 January 2014

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Summary

In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels.

Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, ‘Death and Designation Among the Asadi’ has shown how their life-style has apparently degenerated from a level of complex technological sophistication and devolved to a primal simplicity. Long after his disappearance in the forest, his daughte…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575093096
ISBN-10:0575093099
Author:Michael Bishop
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:14 January 2014
Weight:234g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Series:S.F. MASTERWORKS
About The Author

Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. After receiving an MA in English from the University of Georgia, Bishop taught at the USAF Academy Preparatory School in Colorado, but soon began placing his short stories with the likes of GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, IF and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. His first novel, A FUNERAL FOR THE EYES OF FIRE, brought comparisons with Ursula Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr and received a NEBULA nomination. It was followed by a number of critically acclaimed works including BSFA AWARD-nominated TRANSFIGURATIONS, ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-nominated ANCIENT OF DAYS, and NO ENEMY BUT TIME, for which he won the NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL. Michael Bishop lives in Georgia, where he is writer-in-residence at LaGrange College.

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