Life Regarded As a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats

First published	September 1991
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

Synopsis

Someone is trying to interrogate him, so his mind jumps between memories, most of them involving cats. There's a jigsaw puzzle with a picture of cats. Cats friends and family owned. A cat skeleton in a biology class. But that's not what the interrogator wants.

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Awards

Year	Award	Category	Status
1992	Locus Poll Award	Best Novelette	Nominee/Finalist
1993	Nebula Award	Short Story	Nominee/Finalist

Publications (13)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
September 1991	Omni, September 1991	Omni Publications International Ltd.	MAGAZINE	60
December 1991	Magicats II	Ace Books	Anthology	13
1993	Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993	ClariNet Communications Corp.	Anthology	\|5.41
April 1994	Nebula Awards 28	Harvest / Harcourt Brace	Anthology	207
April 1994	Nebula Awards 28	Harcourt Brace	Anthology	207
August 1996	At the City Limits of Fate	Edgewood Press	Collection	209
February 2010	Tails of Wonder and Imagination	Night Shade Books	Anthology
February 2010	Tails of Wonder and Imagination	Night Shade Books	Anthology	123
February 2012	The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective	Subterranean Press	Collection	333
February 2012	The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective	Subterranean Press	Collection	333
March 2013	Magicats II	Baen Books	Anthology
October 2013	At the City Limits of Fate	Gateway / Orion	Collection	\|209
June 2022	Tails of Wonder and Imagination	Night Shade Books	Anthology