The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: **Signed / Limited**

Bishop, Michael; Hutchins, Michael edited by

ISBN 10: 1596063742 / ISBN 13: 9781596063747

Published by Subterranean Press, Burton, 2012

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Signed Limited Edition - this special signed edition is limited to 250 numbered this is copy 2. Signed by Michael Bishop on special limitation page. Also has a Sketch from Lee Moyer on limitation page. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: **Signed / Limited**
• Publisher: Subterranean Press, Burton
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596063742
• ISBN 13: 9781596063747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Moyer, Lee
• Edition: First Subterranean Press Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

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In the course of a distinguished career now entering its fifth decade, Michael Bishop has amassed a large body of fiction notable for its intellectual range, narrative sophistication, and sheer stylistic elegance. This massive new retrospective, The Door Gunner (and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy), amply celebrates that career, offering one example after another of Bishop's unique - and characteristic - virtuosity.This generous volume contains a preface by Bishop scholar Michael H. Hutchins, a shrewd and sympathetic introduction by Jack McDevitt, detailed - and highly readable - story notes, and twenty-five stories and novellas, many never before collected, all of them newly revised for this definitive collection. The contents proceed in chronological order, beginning with Bishop's first professional story sale, Piñon Fall, and ending with The City Quiet as Death, a recent collaboration with Steven Utley. Along the way, readers will rediscover a number of bona fide Bishop classics ( Blooded on Arachne, the Nebula Award-winning The Quickening ), together with a varied assortment of equally memorable tales. These include the wonderfully titled - and mordantly funny - The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia, Help Me, Rondo, a moving account of the last days of disfigured character actor Rondo Hatton, The Angst, I Kid You Not, of God, a whimsically serious reflection on violence and the sense of divine dread that permeates the universe, and Miriam, a beautifully concise re-imagining of the central spiritual drama of Western Civilization.Not one of these stories fails to delight, illuminate, educate, and amuse. Together, they constitute a landmark volume that readers will return to again and again, finding something new to appreciate every time out. The Door Gunner (and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy) is that rarest of accomplishments: a book that matters, that speaks clearly and from the heart about significant things. It deserves - and will doubtless achieve - a place on the permanent shelf.