ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“The Sacerdotal Owl” copyright © 2003 by Michael Bishop; first published by KaCSFFS Press in 13 Horrors, edited by Brian A. Hopkins; reprinted in Weird Tales, edited by George Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer, March-April 2004.
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees copyright © 1976 by Michael Bishop first appeared in a considerably different version from Harper & Row, March 1976; reprinted as Beneath the Shattered Moons by DAW Books, June 1977; reprinted in a Tor Double Novel with James Tiptree, Jr.’s The Color of Neanderthal Eyes by Tom Doherty Associates, January 1990.
“To the Land of Snow” copyright © 2012 by Michael Bishop; first published by Baen Books as “Twenty Lights to ‘The Land of Snow’ ” in Going Interstellar, edited by Les Johnson and Jack McDevitt, June 2012; reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, by St. Martin’s Griffin, edited by Gardner R. Dozois, July 2013.
“The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis; or, The Astrogator’s Testimony” copyright © 1983 by Davis Publications for Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine, edited by Shawna McCarthy, November 1983; reprinted in author’s collection Close Encounters with the Deity, from Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., August 1986; the version herein contains a host of revisions that make it the author’s preferred text of this particular “long tale.” But the same, in different degrees, holds true for each featured story here.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to reprint lines from “You, Andrew Marvell” from Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish.