100-430: Philip Lawson may refer to: Philip Lawson (author) , pseudonym of Michael Bishop in collaboration with Paul Di Filippo Philip Lawson (composer) , composer, arranger and baritone singer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
200-540: A background check . It also held that any regulation of firearms in the United States is presumed unconstitutional unless the state can prove it is rooted in the country's text, history, and tradition. In United States v. Rahimi (2024), this test was refined as the Court upheld federal laws restricting gun rights from those accused of domestic violence and said that lower courts should not seek exact comparisons when reviewing
300-792: A criminal background check system maintained by the FBI . In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was signed into law under the presidency of Bill Clinton , which included the Federal Assault Weapons Ban , effectively banned the manufacturing, selling, and possession of specific military-style assault weapons such as AR-15 style rifles and banned high-capacity ammunition magazines that held over 10 rounds. Banned arms that were previously legally possessed were grandfathered . The ban expired in September 2004. In 2003,
400-474: A "caricature" and a "stock character of a madman." Locus reviewer Tom Whitmore calls the book "a masterful pastiche" and "…the closest thing to a classic Dick sf novel anyone has ever done." Gerald Jonas in The New York Times writes "Mr. Bishop is a solid, serious writer whose reach (in his previous work) has always seemed to me to exceed his grasp. Here, he catches some of Dick's fire, especially in
500-512: A Christian. Michael and Jeri, former counselor at Rosemont Elementary School, had two grandchildren, Annabel and Joel, by their daughter Stephanie. On April 16, 2007, their son Jamie , a lecturer in German and I.T. Studies, became one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting . Bishop and his wife subsequently advocated for stricter gun laws in the United States . Bishop died from cancer at
600-504: A Flower Could Eclipse" (1970), his second published story, Bishop began a series of stories set in the Urban Nucleus of Atlanta, one of several domed cities in his future history. Over the next decade he would write seven stories of varying length and one novel to fill in the century-long chronology. Some of the stories first appeared in such prestigious anthology series as Damon Knight's Orbit and Terry Carr's Universe . Four of
700-405: A character. The novel is set in a world in which Richard Milrose Nixon, in his fourth term as president, holds fascistic control over America, and the science fiction works of Philip K. Dick remain unpublished, distributed underground as samizdat , while his realist fiction titles are the ones that are celebrated as masterpieces . Author and reviewer Orson Scott Card writes that "the climax
800-728: A daughter, Stephanie was born in 1973. Bishop left teaching in 1974 to become a full-time writer. In those early years of freelance writing, he would occasionally work as a substitute teacher in the public schools and as a stringer for the Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus . In 1996, Bishop became writer-in-residence at LaGrange College located near his home (built in the 1890s) in Pine Mountain, Georgia . Bishop taught creative-writing courses and an occasional January interim-term course. He held this position until Spring 2012. Bishop identified as
900-415: A few of the flavorful images and metaphors with which I salted the text. But I also recognize the fumble-fingeredness and immaturity of that initial version." Very few publications (mostly fanzines ) took enough notice to review the new version. ( Pocket Books even used the artwork of the original publisher's edition.) In one of the rare reviews, Robert Frazier writes "In almost every detail, Eyes of Fire
1000-640: A film and bought the rights outright in 1995. (To date, no film has been made.) Bishop published fifteen solo novels, three collaborative novels , and more than 150 pieces of short fiction, most of which have been gathered into eleven collections. A major career retrospective collection, The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy was published in February 2012 by Subterranean Press . His stories have appeared in such publications as Playboy , Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine ,
1100-433: A fully realized dramatic affirmation." In one of the few mixed reviews, Tom Easton writes that "Kampa [the protagonist] is the only character who does come alive. All others are at least stiff. Some are outright caricatures. The book is not faultless, but it is overall a pleasure to read… Its treatment of anthropology is so effective that the few flaws are easily overlooked." Editor and critic David Pringle writes that
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#17330863085501200-683: A hospice facility in LaGrange, Georgia , on November 13, 2023, one day after his 78th birthday. Bishop was twice awarded the Nebula : in 1981 for " The Quickening " ( Best Novelette ) and in 1982 for No Enemy But Time ( Best Novel ). He also received four Locus Awards and his work has been nominated for numerous Hugo Awards . In July 2009, "The Pile" was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story of 2008. In 1993, 20th Century Fox optioned his novel Brittle Innings for
1300-713: A master's degree in English in 1968. In 1969, he married Jeri Ellis Whitaker of Columbus, Georgia. He taught English (including a course in science fiction) at the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968 to 1972. After his service career, he taught composition and English literature at the University of Georgia in Athens . A son, Jamie , was born in 1971, and
1400-450: A new tone from Bishop, and he demonstrates a talent for it…But it seems to me Bishop doesn't really want to write comedy. It's as if Bishop is running riffs on whatever wacky ideas come to hand, without much plan, holding his characters at arm's length; as if, trying to avoid sententiousness, he has to avoid caring – but in the end can't. The result being a loose, baggy sort of book." Bishop's first novel for young people "whatever their age"
1500-440: A new treatment of a somewhat familiar theme, but crafted into a strange shape and told with such fineness of presence and such impressive language that it hardly matters what the book is about." Reviewer Keith L. Justice writes "If Bishop never published another word of fiction, he would still have to be considered a milestone writer in the development of contemporary sf… Writers such as Le Guin , Tiptree , and Bishop are developing
1600-476: A panache and a narrative energy that are a delight to read and dazzling to watch." Ancient of Days was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1988. Originally published as The Secret Ascension by Tor Books in 1987 (but subsequently reprinted with the author's preferred title), this work is an homage to writer Philip K. Dick , a pastiche of his style, and includes an alternate reality version of Dick as
1700-550: A perfect modern fable. A fable about America and her values. For what is being torn down stone by stone is a world spoiled by the trite commercial values of American culture." It's the story of an ordinary American man who awakes to find himself in Seville , Spain. He soon discovers that the population of the whole world has been scattered, creating a potent stew of race, ethnicity, culture and language. A major theme throughout much of Bishop's work (and especially so in his short fiction)
1800-630: A rancher in the Colorado mountains. An excerpt, "The Calling of Paisley Coldpony", was published in Asimov's Science Fiction in January 1988. Nancy Kress wrote "Michael Bishop has pulled off a rare and amazing feat. Unicorn Mountain successfully weaves such traditional fantasy elements as unicorns and Indian lore together with the all-too-contemporary..." Orson Scott Card wrote "The triumph of this, Bishop's most artistically whole and successful novel to date,
1900-616: A recent enlistee of the Army Air Corps, 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 entered the University of Georgia in 1963, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1967, before going on to complete
2000-553: A reference to Bishop's short story collections, Nick Gevers writes "These volumes, combining the sublimely exotic and the drawlingly familiar, satirical humour and timeless tragedy, constitute one of the finest short fiction oeuvres in SF's history.". Author, critic and sometime collaborator, Paul Di Filippo writes Since his first short-story sale in 1970, Michael Bishop has revealed a questing spiritual intelligence uniquely concerned with moral conundrums. While his works are often full of both
2100-668: A right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside." However, the Tenth Circuit Court ruled in 2013 that it does not, saying, "In light of our nation's extensive practice of restricting citizen's freedom to carry firearms in a concealed manner, we hold that this activity does not fall within the scope of the Second Amendment's protections." More recently, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled in its 2016 decision Peruta v. San Diego County that
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#17330863085502200-469: A storyline immured in the particular and haunted by the exotic." In this sophisticated twist on the traditional time-travel story, a modern-day African-American man is recruited by the military for his special ability to "dream" himself into the Pleistocene era where he becomes involved with a tribe of habilines . Thomas Disch writes "Bishop is determined to write about human goodness without resorting to
2300-526: A timeline. Bishop's critically acclaimed novel, the Nebula Award winning No Enemy But Time , was published in 1982 by Simon & Schuster under David Hartwell 's editorship and the Timescape imprint. John Clute writes that the novel "intensified the movement of [Bishop's] imagination to a local habitat, and for the first time introduced a protagonist of sufficient racial (and mental) complexity to carry
2400-403: A whole new generation of artistry." In Stolen Faces (published by Harper & Row in 1977), a recently demoted commissioner has been reassigned to a colony planet to govern a compound which isolates the sufferers of a leprosy-like disease. Ian Watson writes that the novel is "about deceit, maskedness and discovery of self-truth…a harsh, arctic tale by contrast with [ And Strange at Ecbatan
2500-406: Is a humane, trickster kaleidoscope questioning a genre and a market, and fiction, and reality too – yet exquisitely spiced with human reality – and delivering the eerie chill of the occult and the illicit, curdling the blood but also warming the heart." Bishop's 1983 Locus Award -winning novella "Her Habiline Husband" forms the first third of Ancient of Days , published in 1985 by Arbor House. It
2600-405: Is crafted intelligently… It is not the type of sf that pushes to the heights of wonder. Instead it is a probing, disturbing, moving reflection on humanity… Bishop's skill is at plumbing to the depths, and his basic tool is a two-way glass. [Other novels this year] will have to go a long distance to surpass this effort." When British author Ian Watson read Bishop's A Little Knowledge (1977), he
2700-470: Is crafted with a precision that becomes obvious only as the novel progresses." The Hugo - and Nebula -nominated novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" forms the first part of Transfigurations , a novel published in 1979 by Berkley Putnam . The story continues when the daughter of the anthropologist who studied the Asadi, a hominid-like race on the planet Bosk'veld, investigates his disappearance. In
2800-461: Is modulated by a variety of state and federal statutes . These laws generally regulate the manufacture, trade, possession, transfer, record keeping, transport, and destruction of firearms , ammunition , and firearms accessories. They are enforced by state, local and the federal agencies which include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The private right to keep and bear arms
2900-434: Is not just an inward epiphany for a character… [T]he world changes in wonderful strange ways, and the audience can read the book passionately, with sweating fingers, eager to see what happens next, yet reluctant to leave the present moment. Imagine: A writer who is already one of the best, taking risks and finding ways to be better." Card does take Bishop to task for the author's characterization of Richard Nixon , calling it
3000-456: Is nudging us toward something more disturbing and hilarious than we're comfortable imagining. It finally is impressive enough to be uneasily recommended." Sanders' editor, Robert A. Collins, chides the reviewer with the footnote "Ignore Sanders' uneasiness, which obviously stems from his difficulty in pegging the book's genre; Stevie Crye is a marvelous book which transcends genre, as all the best of Bishop does." Author Ian Watson writes "Here
3100-540: Is on his sleeve, [manages] in Unicorn Mountain to generate a moving tale out of ecological disaster here and in another world, AIDS, the death of cultures, the death of species, and the slow sea-changing of America into themeparks." The novel won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award , and was shortlisted for the 1989 Locus Award. Xavier Thaxton, protagonist of Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy ( Tor Books , 1992),
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3200-427: Is original and intelligently worked-out, and the storyline sustains the fascination of the reader throughout. Nevertheless, it seems to me to fall slightly behind the standard set by recent solo works by either of the two authors." He concludes that the "book is worth reading, but it is not an outstanding work in either author's canon." This is Michael Bishop's last novel-length work of other worlds fiction. With "If
3300-684: Is protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution . This protection became legally explicit when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that the Amendment defined and protected an individual right, unconnected with militia service. A subsequent holding in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) ruled that the Second Amendment is incorporated by
3400-459: Is set in the same far future as his Hugo - and Nebula -nominated novella "The White Otters of Childhood." There are two surviving races, both genetically engineered by a third, the Parfects, who also manipulate the ongoing struggle between them. Richard A. Lupoff praised the novel lavishly, calling it "An eccentric, accomplished performance; and impressive and admirable one . . . a delightful book,
3500-501: Is so well-written, or cares so much about its characters." Bernard Goodman of Fantasy Review believes that "Bishop's theme of evil inherent in humanity echoes William Golding ," and that the novel "in some ways…parallels Golding's Lord of the Flies ." Author Samuel R. Delany writes "A wonder-filled novel of ideas—ideas that include questions of race, science, art, and spirituality, among many others. Bishop dramatizes each of these with
3600-603: Is sometimes guilty, in the first respect, of a certain over-writing – underlying exotic venue by exotic diction – though the two become more organically integrated as his work progresses; and in the second respect of what one might call an over-scrupulousness on the part of his characters and his perceived attitude to them… These, however, are merely the consequence of aspiration and conscience; and as more of Bishop's work has appeared – and his reputation has grown – he has shown…a more coherent melding of exotic vision, ethics and style." When Bishop's first novel, A Funeral for
3700-432: Is that he set out to do something that is nearly impossible in fiction: He wrote a novel about constructing a tribe...To do it, he had to bring us to know and understand and care about more fully-created characters than most writers produce in a career." John Clute's assessment emphasized another theme of the work: "Michael Bishop, whose voice is like a shout from the bottom of the well of the enormous South, and whose heart
3800-406: Is the fine arts editor for a newspaper in the fictional Southern metropolis of Salonika (a satirical/alternate reality version of contemporary Atlanta ) with a particularly low opinion of pop culture. When he is accidentally exposed to illegally dumped nuclear waste, the radiation exposure turns him into a superhero (or, as Bishop designated, a "stalwart"). Analog reviewer Tom Easton writes about
3900-583: Is the role of religion in the daily lives of human beings. When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it. He wrote "…we had a remarkable story that considered, quite fearlessly, an important idea, and we felt that most readers would recognize its legitimacy – if not at once, then upon mature reflection." When Bishop's story "Dogs' Lives"
4000-469: Is the story of "Adam", one of the last surviving Homo habilis , who is discovered in contemporary Georgia. In this thematic companion to his novel No Enemy But Time (with an almost inverse conceit), Bishop tackles issues of racial and cultural prejudice, and explores the question of what it means to be human. Locus reviewer Debbie Notkin writes "This is science fiction so precise and so well-thought-out that it reads like history, although little history
4100-590: The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer , Omni Magazine , and the New York Review of Science Fiction . A collection of his nonfiction, A Reverie for Mister Ray , was published in 2005 by PS Publishing . Bishop and British author Ian Watson collaborated on a novel set in the universe of one of Bishop's earlier works. He also wrote two mystery novels with Paul Di Filippo , under the joint pseudonym Philip Lawson . Bishop's collaboration with Steven Utley ,
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4200-877: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , the Missouri Review , the Indiana Review , the Chattahoochee Review , the Georgia Review , Omni , and Interzone . His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Bishop edited seven anthologies, including the Locus Award -winning Light Years and Dark and A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ , published by Thunder's Mouth Press in 2007. His latest anthology, Passing for Human ,
4300-559: The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and thereby applies to state and local laws. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022) the Court struck down New York's may-issue policy of being required to show "proper cause" to be granted a concealed carry license, but allowed states to enforce "shall-issue" permitting where applicants must satisfy certain objective criteria such as passing
4400-565: The Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA) (1986), passed under the Ronald Reagan administration , enacted protections for gun owners. It prohibited a national registry of dealer records, limited ATF inspections to conduct annual inspections (unless multiple infractions have been observed), allowed licensed dealers to sell firearms at "gun shows" in their state, and loosened regulations on the sale and transfer of ammunition. However,
4500-410: The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution , which protects the right to keep and bear arms . The exceptions are California, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York. In New York, however, the statutory civil rights laws contain a provision virtually identical to the Second Amendment. Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court held in McDonald v. Chicago (2010) that the protections of
4600-690: The Tiahrt Amendment proposed by Kansas Representative, Todd Tiahrt , limited the ATF to only release information from its firearms trace database to only law enforcement agencies or a prosecutors in connection with a criminal investigation. In 2005, The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was signed into law under the presidency of George W. Bush . This act protected gun manufacturers from being named in federal or state civil suits by those who were victims of crimes involving guns made by that company. In 2008,
4700-483: The US Sentencing Commission , approximately 5,000 to 6,000 prohibited persons are convicted of unlawfully receiving or possessing a firearm each year. In 2017, over 25.2 million background checks were performed. Under United States law, any company or gunsmith which in the course of its business manufactures firearms of finished frames and receivers, or modifies firearms for resale, must be licensed as
4800-517: The 1977 DeepSouthCon , the 1978 Philcon , the 1992 Readercon , the 1992 World Fantasy Convention , the 1999 World Horror Convention , the 2005 Norwescon , the 2009 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, and Special Guest at the 2010 ArmadilloCon . He was also one of the organizers of the three Slipstreaming in the Arts conferences (1997–2001). In 2001, he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from LaGrange College . In May 2013, he
4900-407: The Amendment or state analogues. The Court's opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. The four dissenting justices argued that
5000-618: The Asadi" and "The White Otters of Childhood" appeared on the shortlist ballots for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. The 1974 gonzo novella "On the Street of the Serpents" (including a character named "Michael Bishop") first appeared in an anthology of original stories. It would eventually lead to a contract for his first novel from Ballantine Books , the anthology's publisher. Six of Bishop's first eight novels are set on other worlds (the other two are
5100-535: The Cygnets with an introduction by Kelly Robson , revised chronology and interstitial material, and a new afterword by the author. The only novel-length work in the UrNu sequence, A Little Knowledge , was published in 1977 by Berkley/Putnam . Chronologically, its events fall just before the last story in the series, "Death Rehearsals". The alien Cygnusians that first appeared in the novella "Allegiances" have been brought into
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#17330863085505200-511: The Eyes of Fire , was published by Ballantine Books in 1975, critics Alexei and Cory Panshin wrote that the novel "shows an interest in the anthropological comparable to Ursula K. Le Guin and a sense of the alien comparable to James Tiptree, Jr. But it is an individual work, Bishop's own and no one else's. A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire is highly imperfect. It is a pied mirror, everywhere reflecting brilliantly bright, everywhere cloudy. It leads
5300-482: The FFA, regulated “destructive devices” (such as bombs, mines, grenades, and other explosives), expanded the definition of machine gun , required the serialization of manufactured or imported guns, banned importing military-style weapons, and imposed a 21 age minimum on the purchasing of handguns from FFLs. The GCA also prohibited the selling of firearms to felons and the mentally ill. In 1986, contrary to prior gun legislation,
5400-598: The FOPA also prohibited civilian ownership or transfer of machine guns made after May 19, 1986, and redefined " silencer " to include silencer parts. In 1993, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act , named after a White House press secretary who was disabled during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan , was signed into law under the presidency of Bill Clinton . This act required that background checks must be conducted on gun purchases and established
5500-634: The National Firearms Act of 1934, deeming that such a weapon has no reasonable relationship with the efficiency of a well-regulated militia. In 1968, following the spree of political assassinations including: the assassination of John F. Kennedy , the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy , and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr , President Lyndon B. Johnson , pushed Congress for the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA). It repealed and replaced
5600-632: The Nebula Award, the novel was nominated for both the John W. Campbell Memorial and British Science Fiction Awards. Bishop followed-up his award-winning science fiction novel with a contemporary novel set in the rural American South. Mary Stevenson ("Stevie") Crye is a young widow with two children struggling to take care of her family as a freelance writer. Her typewriter has started to act up, automatically transcribing her nightmares and subsequently her future. The only American edition of Who Made Stevie Crye?
5700-534: The Second Amendment does not guarantee the right of gun owners to carry concealed firearms in public. The following are eligible to possess and own firearms within the United States, though further restrictions apply: Each state has its own laws regarding who is allowed to own or possess firearms, and there are various state and federal permitting and background check requirements. Controversy continues over which classes of people, such as convicted felons, people with severe or violent mental illness, and people on
5800-557: The Second Amendment protects "the right of law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home." However, in delivering the majority opinion, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote on the Second Amendment not being an unlimited right: Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under
5900-590: The Second Amendment protects the right to carry guns in public for self-defense in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen in 2022. Previously, federal appeals courts had issued conflicting rulings on this point. For example, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in 2012 that it does, saying, "The Supreme Court has decided that the amendment confers
6000-456: The Second Amendment to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one's home apply against state governments and their political subdivisions. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , the Supreme Court ruled that states could not require "proper cause" or a "special need" when issuing a license for concealed carry. Important events regarding gun legislation occurred in
6100-554: The Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home" and that "the State ’s may-issue licensing regime violates the Constitution." The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . While there have been contentious debates on the nature of this right, there
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#17330863085506200-410: The Supreme Court ruled in the case District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment is an "individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia" and struck down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban. But the Supreme Court also stated "that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and that guns and gun ownership would continue to be regulated." In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in
6300-566: The Trees ] where the terrain may be stark but there is a mannered elegance in the tone of voice; it is a tale executed in an argot-ritualistic style." Critic Richard Delap writes "There is an abundance of exploitable elements in Bishop's story, so it is astonishing to see how the author keeps them under strict rein, always with a highly keyed visual sense but also with a literary flair that says more by implication than by direct description. The writing itself
6400-598: The UK by Gollancz (1981) and in the US by Ace Books (1982), a Japanese linguist, crewmember of the research starship Heavenbridge , arrives on the home planet of the Kybers (so-called because they're seemingly made of flesh and metal.) She soon learns that the planet's sun will shortly go nova. Brian Stableford writes that the novel when compared with other recent sf collaborations "is a very solid and rewarding piece of work. Its basic premise
6500-476: The case McDonald v. Chicago that the Second Amendment is incorporated and thus applies against the states. In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in the case Caetano v. Massachusetts that "the Second Amendment extends, prima facie , to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding". In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen "that
6600-500: The data they are meant to make transparent is perhaps the strongest part of this extremely dense and carefully thought-through novel." Theodore Sturgeon writes "Michael Bishop's Transfigurations is as complex, as carefully thought-out, and as compelling an sf novel as you'll find anywhere, ever." Transfigurations was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1980. In 1980, Bishop
6700-468: The domed city of Atlanta, causing quite a stir when one of them converts to the state sponsored religion. Mary S. Weinkauf writes "…this is a cleverly done book with many elements of previously admired sf…although it is maneuvered by too carefully contrived coincidences and leaves some questions at the end… [It] is a book to think about long after you put it down." Richard Delap writes that "characters…scurry through this shifting maze as if they are buffeted by
6800-402: The early chapters… Then a lot happens very quickly (as in some of Dick's own novels), and the satire, which should hold things together, turns predictable. But…the ending (starring Philip K. Dick ) approaches sublimity." The novel was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989. In this novel, published by Arbor House/William Morrow in 1988, a man dying of AIDS is taken in by his cousin,
6900-627: The eyes inward, and ultimately reveals nothing clearly. Even so, it is the most impressive first novel so far seen in the Seventies." They go on to declare that "Bishop is one of the new and still rare breed of science fiction writer attempting to produce art without rejecting the pulp vigor that is science fiction's continuing strengths." The novel was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1975. Bishop's second novel (and first hardcover publication) takes its title from Archibald MacLeish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell". Published by Harper & Row in 1976, it
7000-468: The federal no-fly list , should be excluded. Laws in these areas vary considerably, and enforcement is in flux. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits certain classes of people from buying, selling, using, owning, receiving, shipping, carrying, possessing or exchanging any firearm or ammunition. Those prohibited include any individual who: These categories are listed on ATF Form 4473 – Firearms Transaction Record background check form. According to
7100-406: The ferocious satire of Dante's Inferno . Count Geiger's Blues also goes beyond humor – well beyond, in its remarkable closing chapters. But they build on all that has gone before. In unleashing a startling talent for comedy and a wide-ranging knowledge of pop culture in both its absurdity and its splendor, Michael Bishop has written his best book yet." John Kessel writes "Comedy is certainly
7200-705: The following years. In 1791, the United States Bill of Rights were ratified, which included the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution which stated that "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." In 1934, the National Firearms Act (NFA) was signed into law under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration in an effort to curb prohibition-era violence. Between 1920 and 1933
7300-403: The genre's finest and most meticulous short-story writers, Bishop boasts six collections to date that function as treasure troves of both science fiction and fantasy. (A seventh lives up to its title, Emphatically Not SF, Almost , by hosting only mainstream tales.) "The Quickening", Bishop's Nebula Award –winning novelette of 1981, is, according to Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove "…perhaps,
7400-449: The historical tradition but rather look at similar analogues and general principles. Most federal gun laws are found in the following acts: Fugitives , those convicted of a felony with a sentence exceeding one year, past or present, and those who were involuntarily admitted to a mental facility are prohibited from purchasing a firearm; unless rights restored. Forty-five states have a provision in their state constitutions similar to
7500-416: The homicide rate in the United States had been rising year-over-year as an example of the unintended consequences of passing Prohibition into law, and the concomitant violence associated with making illegal a widely in- demand product. The NFA is considered to be the first federal legislation to enforce gun control in the United States, imposing a $ 200 tax, equivalent to approximately $ 3,942 in 2022, on
7600-419: The journal Foundation , John Clute writes that the novel is "a fever of explanation. Hypothesis builds on hypothesis [as more and more data is added to the original observations], and much of the resulting construction is beautifully crafted, almost hallucinatory it is so plausible. But of course these explanations are never enough – and the intellectual tact by which Bishop makes them almost but not quite fit
7700-452: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip_Lawson&oldid=1091887804 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Philip Lawson (author) Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023)
7800-486: The majority had broken prior precedent on the Second Amendment, and took the position that the amendment refers to an individual right, but only in the context of militia service. In McDonald , the Supreme Court ruled that, because of the incorporation of the Bill of Rights , the guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applies to state and local gun control laws and not just federal laws. The Supreme Court ruled that
7900-495: The manufacture and transfer of Title II weapons . It also mandated the registration of machine guns , short-barreled rifles and shotguns, heavy weapons, explosive ordnance, suppressors , and disguised or improvised firearms . When Prohibition was ultimately repealed in 1933, and the monopoly on alcohol maintained by organized crime was ended, there was a significant decline in the homicide rate. In fact, "...homicides continued to diminish each year for eleven years straight [after
8000-460: The mock heroics of formula adventure stories. There are no villains in the book, even among the habilines. The central and absorbing drama of the book is the hero's growing love for the habiline, Helen. Looming behind this love story is a larger theme, the formation across the entire span of history of the Family of Man, a phrase that becomes, as the novel ripens to its conclusion, no mere liberal piety but
8100-496: The novel "is narrated in an oddly detached, quizzical and dryly humorous manner… The paleo-anthropological details are superbly imagined, the African landscapes beautifully described, yet the final effect is one of coolness, distance… Michael Bishop's prose style is learned, witty, Latinate, although salted with deliberately-placed colloquialisms and low jokes. This book is the work of a talented and serious writer." In addition to winning
8200-449: The novel's resolution: "This is where Bishop falters. The satire he has painstakingly created now teeters on the brink of farce. He quite properly makes the decision to yank it back from that brink, but then he loses the satire. He becomes heavy-handed and obvious." Faren Miller disagrees: "The most ambitious comic books are no longer merely comic – may even incorporate tragedy in a critique of modern life as savage and acute, in its way, as
8300-403: The part of his UrNu sequence of stories.) Critic and author John Clute writes that "…his early stories and novels display considerable intellectual complexity, and do not shirk the downbeat implications of their anthropological treatment of aliens and alienating milieux…" In his major essay on these early novels, author Ian Watson writes "Michael Bishop is both an exoticist and a moralist. He
8400-523: The repeal of Prohibition]." In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA) into law, requiring that all gun-related businesses must have a federal firearms license (FFL). In 1939, through the court case United States v. Miller , the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Congress could regulate interstate selling sawed-off shotguns through
8500-468: The short story "The City Quiet as Death", was published in June 2009 on Tor.com. Bishop wrote introductions to books by Philip K. Dick , Theodore Sturgeon , James Tiptree, Jr. , Pamela Sargent , Gardner Dozois , Lucius Shepard , Mary Shelley , Andy Duncan , Paul Di Filippo , Bruce Holland Rogers , and Rhys Hughes . Bishop was Guest of Honor at more than a dozen science fiction conventions including
8600-529: The social and political activities of this future world rather than by an author plotting to reach a predestined conclusion. A Little Knowledge is a lively, thought-provoking novel that will exercise your brain." All of the previously published stories in Bishop's UrNu sequence, along with a new novella, "Death Rehearsals", are contained in Catacomb Years , a fix-up published in 1979 by Berkley/Putnam . Bishop also wrote new connecting material and provided
8700-438: The stories would subsequently be chosen for best-of-the-year anthologies. (N.B.: According to the author's website A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire and Under Heaven's Bridge are only tangentially connected to the series and thus not part of the sequence proper. ) In 2019, all of the works in this series, including two short stories, a novelette, four novellas, and a novel, were revised, sequenced, and published as The City and
8800-433: The subgenre of anthropological science fiction, consists of two short stories and two novels published in the late 1970s. While Galaxy Science Fiction and If magazines were publishing his science-fiction stories, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction became Bishop's venue for his fantasy/horror stories. This early period is also noted for a number of high-profile novellas: in 1973 "Death and Designation Among
8900-486: The tale, including an ongoing dialogue between Joel-Brock and his future self. The bulk of the book takes place in the Sporangium [the underground world beneath the department store], and there's always a new miracle or horror around the bend. While the marvels are unpredictable and chaotic, they also exhibit the consistency and inner logic of the best dream worlds." In his introduction to an interview with Michael Bishop, in
9000-476: The widescreen spectacles associated with science fiction and the subtle frissons typical of more earthbound fantasy, his focus remains on the engagement of characters with ethical quandaries any reader might encounter in his or her daily life. . . While only occasionally delving into explicitly religious themes, Bishop's personal Christian faith—wide enough to embrace references to Buddhism, Sufism and other creeds—shines through in every tale. . . Acknowledged as one of
9100-442: The writer and his or her creation…" and concluded that the novel is "…a gripping and intelligent tale of the supernatural by an author who is adept at avoiding most of the clichés of the horror genre." In his mixed review of the novel, Joe Sanders writes "Sometimes vivid, sometimes prosaic; sometimes involving but often affectless, this is not a novel to like casually. Even when it looks like standard mass-produced pop lit, it actually
9200-461: Was a lack of clear federal court rulings defining the right until the two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010). An individual right to own a gun for personal use was affirmed in Heller , which overturned a handgun ban in the federal District of Columbia . In the Heller decision, the court's majority opinion said that
9300-473: Was an American author. Over five decades and in more than thirty books, he created what has been called a "body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature." Michael Lawson Bishop was born on November 12, 1945, in Lincoln, Nebraska , the son of Leotis "Lee" Bishop and Maxine ("Mac") Elaine Matison. His parents met in the summer of 1942 when his father,
9400-462: Was co-edited with Steven Utley and published by PS Publishing in 2009. In addition to his fiction, Bishop published poetry (gathered in two collections) and won the 1979 Rhysling Award for his poem "For the Lady of a Physicist." He also had essays and reviews published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ,
9500-475: Was given the unusual opportunity by editor David Hartwell to rewrite his first novel. This completely revised version (or, as Bishop called it, wholesale reimagining ) was published by Pocket Books as Eyes of Fire . In his introduction to the British hardcover edition of the revised work, Bishop writes "…I still feel affection for the original version of A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire , its callow narrator, and
9600-408: Was published in 1984 by the highly esteemed specialty publisher Arkham House under the editorship of Jim Turner. This original edition, as well as the British edition, was photographically illustrated by J. K. Potter. When David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his book Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels , he described the novel as "a playful metafiction about the real and the fictitious, about
9700-501: Was published in June 2016 by the Fairwood Press imprint Kudzu Planet Productions. Ten-year-old Joel-Brock Lollis returns home from a baseball game to discover that his parents and sister have been kidnapped, and proceeds to recruit two employees of the local big-box department store in his quest to rescue his family. Reviewer Paul Di Filippo writes "Bishop's prodigious powers of invention serve him well here too. There are many angles to
9800-598: Was reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1985 , it became one of only a handful of genre stories to appear in the prestigious anthology series. The story might have languished in limbo, had the author not pulled its submission to Harlan Ellison 's never-published anthology The Last Dangerous Visions . Gun laws in the United States In the United States , the right to keep and bear arms
9900-408: Was so fascinated with the alien Cygnusians that he wrote to inquire whether Bishop had plans to write a story about the aliens' home planet. Thus began what Bishop calls "the first ever transatlantic science fiction collaboration", with all correspondence sent by post. Although often labeled as the third book in the series, it is not truly part of the main UrNu sequence. In this novel, published in
10000-523: Was the Guest of Honor at Italcon 39, the Italian national convention of fantastic literature. Michael Bishop's first published professional fiction sale was the short story "Piñon Fall" to Galaxy Science Fiction in 1970. It was shortly followed by "If a Flower Could Eclipse", the first story in his Urnu sequence , Bishop's longest and most significant series of related stories. His shorter series, Glaktik Komm, in
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