Publication: Close Encounters with the Deity

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Publication: Close Encounters with the DeityPublication Record # 7362
Author: Michael Bishop
Date: 1986-08-00
ISBN: 0-931948-96-7 [978-0-931948-96-1]
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Price:
$15.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: vi+306
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: Close Encounters with the Deity by Ralph Masiello [as by Ralph P. Masiello]
Notes:
- "1st printing" stated on the copyright page.
- No statement of publication date, only "Copyright © 1986 by Michael Bishop". Date given for this record from Locus1.
- Published simultaneously in trade paperback. The ISBNs of both editions are stated on the copyright page.
- "Art by Ralph P. Masiello / Design by Paulette Lambert" stated on the back inside flap of the dustjacket.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 86061070
- OCLC/WorldCat: 14048359
- Reginald-3: 18032

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Collection Title: Close Encounters with the Deity • collection by Michael Bishop

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

i • Religion and Science Fiction • [Asimov's Editorials] • (1984) • essay by Isaac Asimov
1 • Close Encounter with the Deity • (1986) • short story by Michael Bishop
15 • Voices • (1986) • novelette by Michael Bishop
43 • A Spy in the Domain of Arnheim • (1981) • novelette by Michael Bishop
63 • Love's Heresy • non-genre • (1979) • short story by Michael Bishop
73 • Storming the Bijou, Mon Amour • (1979) • short story by Michael Bishop
91 • Dogs' Lives • (1984) • novelette by Michael Bishop
115 • A Gift from the GrayLanders • (1985) • novelette by Michael Bishop
139 • A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D. • (1980) • short story by Michael Bishop
155 • Diary of a Dead Man • short story by Michael Bishop
169 • Scrimptalon's Test • (1984) • short story by Michael Bishop and Gerald W. Page
183 • The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. • (1985) • short story by Michael Bishop
201 • Alien Graffiti (A Personal History of Vagrant Intrusions) • (1986) • short story by Michael Bishop
217 • And the Marlin Spoke • (1983) • novelette by Michael Bishop
247 • The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's Testimony) • (1983) • novella by Michael Bishop

Primary Verifications

Verifier	Date	Type	Last User Activity Date
Scott Latham	2007-02-09 20:53:43	Permanent	2015-06-21
Mhhutchins	2009-09-07 21:46:33	Permanent	2022-08-24

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Bleiler Early Years	N/A	Rtrace	2021-09-25 17:52:06
Bleiler Supernatural	N/A	Rtrace	2021-09-25 17:52:06
Bleiler1 (Gernsback)	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Bleiler78	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Clute/Grant	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Clute/Nicholls	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:37
Contento1 (anth/coll)	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Currey	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Locus1	Verified	Scott Latham	2007-02-09 20:53:43
Miller/Contento	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Reginald1	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Reginald3	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38
Tuck	N/A	Bluesman	2011-11-07 13:05:38

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