Michael Bishop
18 Quotations from Michael Bishop
| chrononaut n. | 1982 No Enemy But Time 78 One of the older females had a vessel so expertly woven that I wondered if some unsung chrononaut had dropped back in time to give it to her, whereupon I realized that her "basket" was in fact a weaverbird nest that she or her husband had stolen from an acacia tree. |
| croggle v. | 1988 Unicorn Mountain (1989) xxxii. 379 Carrie Plourde’s response…croggled Libby. |
| Ellisonian adj. | 1981 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 49/2 Stylistically, these tales run the gamut from Lovecraftian ultraviolet….to Ellisonian anguish. |
| fix-up n. | 1990 More Than a Masterpiece? in Quantum — Science Fiction & Fantasy Review Spring 6/1 First, it became a ‘novel’ by a route often pursued by genre science fiction writers in those days, namely, the route of the ‘fix-up.’ |
| genre science fiction n. | 1990 More Than a Masterpiece? in Quantum — Science Fiction & Fantasy Review Spring 6/1 First, it became a ‘novel’ by a route often pursued by genre science fiction writers in those days, namely, the route of the ‘fix-up.’ |
| gyrobus n. | 1984 With a Little Help from Her Friends in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb. 7/2 The boarded an orange gyrobus in the parking lot and departed the hatchery. |
| hooman n. | 1973 Death & Designation Among Asadi in Worlds of If Feb. 26/2 Look, Chaney, you don’t have to insist on 100% nonassociation with us. You’ve been gone almost two months. A conversation or two with genuine hoo-man beans won’t destroy your precious ethnography. Let us drop you a radio. You can use it in the evenings. If you want it, send up a flare tomorrow night before all three moons have risen and I’ll copter it out to the drop point the next day. |
| light-speed n. 2 | 1990 in Thrust (#35) Winter 23/3 Stith has given us hyperspace where lightspeed is a tad over 22 miles per hour, and levels of reality where characters literally see themselves coming and going. |
| multiverse n. 2 | 1979 Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 53 This beam blazed in the darkness like a sun, a great white hole emptying a multiverse of backwards images into the visions of the Pittites. |
| nanotechnological adj. | 1987 Secret Ascension 327 Loan conferred with the operators ‘feeding’ the vats, then introduced his guests to one of the molecular programmers who had laid out the agenda for tonight’s nanotechnological miracles. |
| neural adj. | 1976 And Strange at Ecbatan i. x. 61 The ones who have roles always require surgical adaptation, electrode implanting, cybernetic neural grafting. |
| planet-wide adv. | 1996 The Procedure in Science Fiction Age July 39/2 The summoner on my bedtable had keys for food, research aid, and the referencing of millions of sites, activities, and services planetwide. |
| science-fictionality n. | 2002 in N.Y. Review of Science Fiction Dec. 7/1 I found her denial of the science-fictionality of The Sparrow not only off-putting but as obtuse as the cluelessness of the novel’s priest. |
| science fictiony adj. | 1982 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 54/1 You’ve already mentioned Marge Piercy’s poems, albeit in a semi-smart-alecky fashion, and I thought you might say something about these so that if Disch ever discovers my true identity, he won’t reduce me to caricature in some future column. Besides, several of his poems are decidedly science-fictiony. |
| space force n. | 2004 Angst of God in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 93 Counselor Ztang…let slip that a virulent fungal smut had almost derailed his aspirations to enter the ztun space force. |
| starfaring adj. | 1990 More Than a Masterpiece? in Quantum — Science Fiction & Fantasy Review Spring 5/2 But Childhood’s End concludes with the elevation of terrestrial humanity to a kind of star-faring group spirit, and the grandiosity of this ending, given the somewhat simpler evolutionary mechanics posited in More Than Human, made me see Sturgeon’s as the more likely—or, anyway, the more immediate—scenario. |
| time traveller n. | 1984 Viewpoint in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr. 52/1 ‘The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door….’ A traditional SF writer would conclude this story by opening that door to reveal 1) the last woman on Earth, or 2) a time traveler from the past, or [etc.]. |
| worldbuilder n. | 1993 Books in Science Fiction Age Jan. 15/1 Once you step Inside the Funhouse…you will see that the world-builders are just as weird as the worlds they build. |