Transfigurations (novel)

Transfigurations is a novel by Michael Bishop published in 1979.

Plot summary

Transfigurations is a novel in which an anthropologist studies the Asadi, a culturally and technologically primitive alien race.[1]

Reception

Greg Costikyan reviewed Transfigurations in Ares Magazine #8 and commented that "Despite its narrative flaws, Transfigurations is exceptionally well written, and Bishop is a writer whose work deserves close attention."[1]

Kirkus Reviews states "Some intriguing speculations about behavior -- but Bishop's usually engaging curiosity blends poorly here with the traditional furniture of outer-space fiction."[2]

Reviews
  • Review by Tom Easton (1980) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1980
  • Review by Charles N. Brown (1980) in Locus, #230 February 1980
  • Review by John Clute (1980) in Foundation, #19 June 1980
  • Review by Joseph Nicholas (1980) in Vector 98
  • Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1981) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1981
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gollark: Isn't honey basically just orange sugary stuff?
gollark: You just need unreasonable amounts of slaves.
gollark: But then you need even MORE slaves to harvest and manage the plants.
gollark: Even if you can live entirely on those, it would be unhealthy and thus worsen the slaves, and producing that at the necessary scales would still be polluting.

References
  1. Costikyan, Greg (May 1981). "Books". Ares Magazine. Simulations Publications, Inc. (8): 34.
  2. "TRANSFIGURATIONS by Michael Bishop". Kirkus Reviews. October 29, 1979.
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