Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories

Michael Bishop. Golden Gryphon Press, $24.95 (295pp) ISBN 978-1-930846-16-6

Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories, by Michael Bishop (Blue Kansas Sky), includes uncollected, in many cases revised, tales that run from ""A Tapestry of Little Murders"" (1971) to ""Last Night Out,"" written especially for this volume a week after September 11. In his introduction, Lucius Shepard extols the truth and moral honesty in Bishop's wide-ranging speculative fiction.

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