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Michael Bishop è senz’altro uno degli autori più completi e maturi della fantascienza degli anni settanta-ottanta, come testimoniano opere ricche di forza narrativa e di brillanti ritratti di culture aliene quali e . Qui lo vediamo all’opera nella descrizione di un’altra società di un futuro non molto lontano, costituita da «anziani» che si riuniscono in matrimoni di gruppo sponsorizzati dal governo. Il loro mondo e le loro strutture sociali sono affascinanti, ma sono proprio i personaggi, ognuno un essere umano magnificamente dipinto, che cattureranno la vostra attenzione e la vostra simpatia.

John Monegal, a.k.a. Joshua Kampa, is torn between two worlds—the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a temporal crossroads where he must decide whether the past or the future will be his present.

LITERARY AWARDS: Nebula Award for Best Novel (1982), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (1983), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1983).

Frankenstein meets Field of Dreams in this nostalgic, gracefully written but fundamentally flawed baseball novel. Set in a sleepy Georgia town during WW II, this coming-of-age saga is based on the real-life story of Danny Boles, a major league scout who died of throat cancer in 1989. The fictional Boles leaves his rural Oklahoma digs to become shortstop for the Hightower Hellbenders, vaulting the Class C team into a pennant race in the process. Veteran writer Bishop (No Enemy but Time) delivers smooth and polished baseball prose and does some nice tricks with sports colloquialisms. He also tackles gritty issues such as the origins-in sexual abuse-of Boles's stuttering, the ravages of war and the rampant racism that plagued the sport. More problematic is Boles's huge teammate, slugging first baseman Henry "Jumbo" Cerval, who bears a suspicious resemblance to the gargantuan outcome of Victor Frankenstein's grand experiment. In the beginning, Bishop presents Cerval as a literate, likable freak. As the season unfolds, Cerval is revealed as the original monster, having escaped and survived for almost a century in the frozen North. Bishop milks the ludicrous premise for an intriguingly macabre ending, but the real problem is that Henry is far more interesting as a flawed human than as a scientific creation. That flaw aside, Brittle Innings should prove an engaging read for both sports buffs and fiction fans.