Catacomb Years
''Catacomb Years'' is a novel by Michael Bishop published in 1979. Plot summary ''Catacomb Years'' is a novel about an oppressive society and the people who are force to live there. 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 Berroc ...
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