Science Fiction
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
BEYOND FANTASY FICTION. (Ten issues, all published).
New York: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, 1953-1955. Small octavo, ten issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. This was to be a companion to Galaxy Science Fiction, in the tradition of Unknown. Author's include Damon Knight, Frank Robinson, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Algis Budrys, Zenna Henderson, Jerome Bixby, Philip Jose Farmer, Fredric Brown, and others. It could not duplicate the audience of Campbell's Unknown which failed due to WWII paper shortages. This magazine's content was not broad based fantasy fiction, while it did publish quality fiction, it stayed away from traditional fantasy and popular sword and sorcery. It also got lost in the SF digest magazine boom. The covers of the first two issues are by Richard Powers. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 137-142.
THE METALLIC MUSE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and dated inscription by Biggle on the front free end paper. Collection of stories which all relate to the arts.
SILENCE IS DEADLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Jan Darzek novel. "This further chapter in the adventures of Jan Darzek and the Galactic Synthesis Council (see The Darkening Universe, 1975) also resurrects an idea treated by Biggle as a short story twenty years ago. The scene is the planet of Kamm, populated by a pre-industrial human civilization with two oddities: the natives are all stone-deaf, and they maintain a singularly cruel religion designed to propitiate a mythical ""Winged Beast"" of dreadful powers. There is indeed a Darwinian relationship between these two facts and the inexplicable rumors of the Kammians' possessing a death-ray weapon. If you don't immediately discern it, it's because Biggle has done a nice job of suspenseful camouflage; he also has a lot of fun setting up his silent planet from the point of view (or ear) of troubleshooter Darzek. Not really memorable, but ingenious and pleasant." - Kirkus Reviews, 18 November, 1977.
THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES SEVEN.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1973]. Octavo, cloth.cloth backed boards. Second edition. Collects seven stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison and Joanna Russ, and essay by Thomas D. Clareson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
MONUMENT.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Review copy.
TIN WOODMAN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel based on short story of the same title nominated for the 1977 Nebula award.
NEBULA AWARDS 24: SFWA'S CHOICES FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 1988.
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1990]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects fiction by James Morrow, Jane Yolen, George Alec Effinger, Jack McDevitt, Neal Barrett, Jr., Gene Wolfe, Connie Willis and others and nonfiction by Ian Watson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-544.
BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. "Atmospheric SF, including such standouts as the title story and 'The White Otters of Childhood.' Bishop is one of the more stylish and intellectual writers of American SF ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 44. "Infatuated with strangeness." - Brian Stableford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. "Atmospheric SF, including such standouts as the title story and 'The White Otters of Childhood.' Bishop is one of the more stylish and intellectual writers of American SF ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 44. "Infatuated with strangeness." - Brian Stableford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. "Atmospheric SF, including such standouts as the title story and 'The White Otters of Childhood.' Bishop is one of the more stylish and intellectual writers of American SF ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 44. "Infatuated with strangeness." - Brian Stableford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. "Atmospheric SF, including such standouts as the title story and 'The White Otters of Childhood.' Bishop is one of the more stylish and intellectual writers of American SF ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 44. "Infatuated with strangeness." - Brian Stableford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DEITY ...
[Atlanta, Georgia]: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., [1986]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of fourteen stories with introduction by Isaac Asimov. "Sophisticated, playful SF and fantasy stories on metaphysical, even mystical, themes. High spots include 'A Gift from the Graylanders' and 'Alien Graffiti.'" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 71. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-61.
COUNT GEIGER'S BLUES.
New York: Tor, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
EMPHATICALLY NOT SF, ALMOST.
Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies copies signed by Bishop. Collects nine stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Fifteen.
A FUNERAL FOR THE EYES OF FIRE.
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. 1026 copies printed of which this is one of 750 trade copies. The author's first novel. Text follows revised version published as EYES OF FIRE by Pocket Books in 1980. The Kerosina edition adds new introduction by Bishop and an afterword, "Treading on the Sublime: A Funeral For the Eyes of Fire" by Ian Watson.
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
NO ENEMY BUT TIME.
New York: Timescape/Simon and Schuster, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 1982 Nebula award winner. "Brilliant and memorable, written with great conviction." - Anatomy of Wonder 4-63.
NO ENEMY BUT TIME.
New York: Timescape Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Winner of the 1982 Nebula Award for best novel. "Brilliant and memorable, written with great conviction." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-51. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-125.
ONE WINTER IN EDEN.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve short stories including the Nebula award winner, "The Quickening." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-49.
ONE WINTER IN EDEN.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3596 copies printed. Bishop's second collection of short fiction. Collects twelve short stories including the Nebula award winner, "The Quickening." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
THE SECRET ASCENSION: PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS.
[New York]: Tor, [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In a horrid alternative timeline, America won the Vietnam War and the dictatorial Richard M. Nixon is still president in the 1980s. The novelist Phil Dick (who, in our world, died in 1982) attempts to rectify this. A tour de force in which Bishop plays with Dick's favorite reality-changing themes." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 318. Bishop "has created an homage that avoids the trap of pastiche, a novel that succeeds in its own right as a witty alternate history." - Michael A. Morrison, SF & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1988. Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist, 1989. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-126.
STOLEN FACES.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
STOLEN FACES.
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1977]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition.