Blooded on Arachne
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Blooded on Arachne is a collection of science fiction
stories by American
author Michael Bishop
. It was published in 1982
by Arkham House
in an edition of 4,081 copies. The volume, Bishop's first short fiction collection, contains two novellas as well as two poems.
Science fiction
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stories by American
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author Michael Bishop
Michael Bishop (author)
Michael Lawson Bishop is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy literature....
. It was published in 1982
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by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
in an edition of 4,081 copies. The volume, Bishop's first short fiction collection, contains two novellas as well as two poems.
Contents
- Preface
- "Among the Hominids at Olduvai" (poem)
- "Blooded on Arachne"
- "Cathadonian Odyssey"
- "Effigies"
- "The House of Compassionate Sharers"
- "In Chinistrex Fortronza the People are Machines"
- "Leaps of Faith"
- "On the Street of the Serpents" (novella)
- "Piñon Fall"
- "Rogue Tomato"
- "Spacemen and Gypsies"
- "The White Otters of Childhood" (novella)
- "For the Lady of a Physicist" (poem)