Weird Fiction discussion

If we discuss authors of weird fiction with the surname Bishop, the first author that would come to anyone's mind would be K.J. Bishop of The Etched City fame. But let me introduce you to someone you may have just thought of as a science fiction author, but who writes in a wide variety of genres, including weird fiction.

Born in November of 1945, Bishop's first short story sale was "Piñon Fall", which was published in the October-November 1970 issue of Galaxy Magazine. The story is about three immigrant children who while out wandering in the arroyo stumble across a strange entity lying in the snow. The being is warm, but seems not to be breathing, has blue lips, eyes like a grasshopper or fly, and orange dust by its wings. They decide to aid the creature.

Most readers at the time may have considered this story science fiction, but we are told nothing of this being's origins or purpose. No. There is no advanced science anywhere in this story. We are squarely in the realm of weird fiction. I really enjoyed it and recommend it highly. It's on pages 89-99, right before the Heinlein story, and can be read as a PDF for free here if you're interested: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/G....

Does anyone by chance know of a longer weird fiction work Michael Bishop wrote that can be nominated for a group read poll?

I only read his one sci fi book, the Nebula award winning No enemy but time. it is an outstanding work, which unfortunately gets downvoted a lot by people with limited vocabularies. I would be totally up for a weird book of his.

I haven't read a longer work by Michael Bishop. I read his short story "Collaborating" which appeared in The Year's Best Horror Stories VII https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

From my review: "My vote for second best story is "Collaborating" by Michael Bishop. It could be questioned whether this story could properly be classified as horror. But I give slack on boundary cases, especially if it is a good story. The story is told from what could be called the double first person point of view. The narrators are two heads on one body. Michael Bishop gets a lot of mileage out of this premise. The narrators talk about their life--for example, if their body succumbs to a disease, they both die. They are media celebrities. They even had a romantic relationship with a woman. Witty banter between the two heads."