Blooded on Arachne explained

Blooded on Arachne
Author:	Michael Bishop
Illustrator:	GlennRay Tutor
Cover Artist:	Ron Walotsky
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Science fiction short stories, poetry
Publisher:	Arkham House
Release Date:	January 1982
Media Type:	Print (hardback)
Pages:	xiii, 338 pp
Isbn:	0-87054-093-9
Oclc:	7596853

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.

Contents

1. Preface
2. "Among the Hominids at Olduvai" (poem)
3. "Blooded on Arachne"
4. "Cathadonian Odyssey"
5. "Effigies"
6. "The House of Compassionate Sharers"
7. "In Chinistrex Fortronza the People are Machines"
8. "Leaps of Faith"
9. "On the Street of the Serpents" (novella)
10. "Piñon Fall"
11. "Rogue Tomato"
12. "Spacemen and Gypsies"
13. "The White Otters of Childhood" (novella)
14. "For the Lady of a Physicist" (poem)

Reprints

New York: Timescape/Pocket (paperback), January 1983.

References

• Book: Jaffery, Sheldon . Sheldon Jaffery

. Sheldon Jaffery . The Arkham House Companion . Mercer Island, WA . Starmont House, Inc.. 127–129 . 1989 . 1-55742-005-X.

• Book: Chalker, Jack L. . Jack L. Chalker

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd.. 54 . 1998.

• Book: Joshi, S.T. . S.T. Joshi

. S.T. Joshi . Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography . Sauk City, WI . Arkham House. 149–150 . 1999 . 0-87054-176-5.

• Book: Nielsen, Leon . Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide . Jefferson, NC and London . McFarland & Company, Inc.. 128 . 2004 . 0-7864-1785-4.

External links

• Michael Bishop official website