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The Samurai and the Willows

Michael Bishop

First published February 1976
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Urban Nucleus

Notes

The version published in The Door Gunner (2012) and The City and the Cygnets (2019) is extensively revised.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1977 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1977 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Winner
1977 Nebula Award Novella Runner-up

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1976 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1976 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 5
July 1977 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection E. P. Dutton Anthology 135
June 1978 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection Ace Books Anthology 209
January 1979 Catacomb Years Berkley/Putnam Collection 153
February 1980 Catacomb Years Berkley Books Collection 107
February 2012 The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective Subterranean Press Collection 71
February 2012 The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective Subterranean Press Collection 71
July 2013 Catacomb Years Gateway / Orion Collection
August 2019 The City and the Cygnets: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century Kudzu Planet Productions Omnibus 117
August 2019 The City and the Cygnets: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century Kudzu Planet Productions Omnibus |117