Catacomb Years

	Catacomb Years ''Catacomb Years'' is a novel by Michael Bishop published in 1979. Plot summary ''Catacomb Years'' is a novel that deals with an oppressive society and those who must live in it. Reception Spider Robinson's comments on the book's structure: "Plainly ishopintended the Domed City to be a metaphor for something or other…and it probably worked just fine in some of those individual novelettes, where an emotionally involving story made you overlook a shaky premise. But the "novel" has no emotional continuity... There are a few marvelous stories in this book, and one superb one The Samurai and the Willows" but they are ruined by a setting which exposes their worst weaknesses." Robinson, Spider. "The Reference Library." '' Analog: Science Fiction/Science Fact''. New York: Condé Nast Publications. June 1979: 174. Robert Frazier strongly disagrees: "''Catacomb Years'' is not a rough sculpture with visible seams and weak welds; it is a polished puzzle entity a la Miguel Berrocal."F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Catacomb Years ''Catacomb Years'' is a novel by Michael Bishop published in 1979. Plot summary ''Catacomb Years'' is a novel that deals with an oppressive society and those who must live in it. Reception Spider Robinson's comments on the book's structure: "Plainly ishopintended the Domed City to be a metaphor for something or other…and it probably worked just fine in some of those individual novelettes, where an emotionally involving story made you overlook a shaky premise. But the "novel" has no emotional continuity... There are a few marvelous stories in this book, and one superb one The Samurai and the Willows" but they are ruined by a setting which exposes their worst weaknesses." Robinson, Spider. "The Reference Library." '' Analog: Science Fiction/Science Fact''. New York: Condé Nast Publications. June 1979: 174. Robert Frazier strongly disagrees: "''Catacomb Years'' is not a rough sculpture with visible seams and weak welds; it is a polished puzzle entity a la Miguel Berrocal."F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Michael Bishop (author) Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer. Over four decades and in more than thirty books, he has created what has been called a "body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature."Cox, F. Brett and Andy Duncan, eds., ''Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic'', New York: Tor Books, 2004: 223 Biography Bishop was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Leotis ("Lee") Bishop (born 1920 in Frys Mill, Poinsett County, Arkansas) and Maxine ("Mac") Elaine Matison (born 1920 in Ashland, Nebraska). His parents met in the summer of 1942 when his father, a recent enlistee of the Air Force, was stationed in Lincoln. Bishop's childhood was the peripatetic life of a military brat. He went to kindergarten in Tokyo, Japan, and he spent his senior year of high school in Seville, Spain. His parents divorced in 1951, and Bishop spent summers wherever his father happened to be based.Bishop, Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Spider Robinson Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian list of science fiction authors, science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978. Early life and education Robinson was born in the Bronx, New York City; his father was a salesman. He was an avid reader of science fiction, and it was his early childhood exposure to the Heinlein juveniles, juvenile novels of Robert Heinlein that later influenced him to become a writer. He attended a Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary; this was followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the Stony Brook University, State University of New York at Stony Brook in the 1960s, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. While at Stony Brook, Spider entertained at campus coffeehouses and gatherings, strumming his guitar and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Science Fiction/Science Fact Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]