Close Encounters with the Deity: Stories

by Michael Lawson Bishop

Book Overview

Stated First Printing in Fine condition. The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Rubs at the outer tips and creasing at the head of its spine. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931948967
• ISBN13: 9780931948961
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent as a collection of theological SF stories

I respectfully disagree with the previous reviewer regarding the utility of this book. While it is not on the same level as "A Canticle for Leibowitz" it does address the concept of God/Deity/Cosmos in a SciFi setting much more closely than most sci-fi writers do. So, yes, each story may not be a Hugo or Nebula award winner, but taken together they certainly fulfill the title's description of "close encounters" with the deity. Did I come away awakened in a spiritual sense? No, but this is science fiction and not Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so it is important to recognize this as fiction with a religious bent to it. In that form, it is a great collection, which I recommend to anyone interested in the genre.