At the City Limits of Fate [Paperback]

Michael Bishop (Author)

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From Library Journal

Nebula Award winner and Hugo and World Fantasy Awards nominee Bishop offers his first full-length collection of stories in ten years. These 15 works previously appeared in Omni, Asimov's The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and other magazines and anthologies between 1981 and 1996.
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From Kirkus Reviews

Bishop's latest collection (One Winter in Eden, 1984, etc.) brings together 15 tales, 198696, drawn from a wide variety of periodicals and anthologies, many with a strong mainstream/experimental flavor. Best is the title piece, a splendid tongue-in-cheek fantasy about a Japanese-style ritual suicide in a Deep South town. ``God's Hour'' posits a weekly hour of TV direct from the deity--and if you don't watch, you go to hell. A dying St. Augustine is lectured on advanced Chinese cosmology by his long- lost son, and on evolution by an African tribesman, in ``For This Do I Remember Carthage.'' And Judas gets a thoroughgoing workout in ``I, Iscariot.'' Other ideas range from Crucifixion ironies, butterflies, snakehandling, jukeboxes, death, and cats to chaos theory, ghosts, and conversations with God. Chilly, intellectual, extended metaphorical ruminations for the most part, with the emotions only rarely engaged: for minority tastes only. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Edgewood Pr (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962906662
• ISBN-13: 978-0962906664
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,335,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Required college reading material, April 25, 2001

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This review is from: At the City Limits of Fate (Paperback)

Having to read Bishop's book as a required piece of literature in my 1102 English class at North Georgia College and State University did not make me feel as though I would enjoy reading the book. However, as I read it, I decided that even if it had not been required, I think I would have read this book anyways. It was actually very good! I loved the fact that so much of the book was set in the South and that it was based on things that I could actually relate to. My favorite of the short stories was probably "Among the Handlers", I had actually seen things on the news about people who handled snakes as a part of their religion and it was a very engrossing story. If only all of the other required reading I had to do at school was this interesting!