Unicorn Mountain

"Full of the dangerous stuff of life, death, and love [and written] with toughness and compassion and, most miraculous of all, with great joy."

     —Michael Swanwick, author of The Dragons of Babel

"Wonderful characters, a thoroughly satisfying plot, an attractive balance between humor and pathos, and plenty of fascinating twists and turns: Bishop's finest work, and unequivocably recommended."

     —Kirkus Reviews

“Bishop documents the pathos and tragedy of the AIDS epidemic on both literal and metaphorical fronts, pulling off both feats with compassion and integrity. His characters are so real that you can see the shadows they cast, and their intersecting stories are as compelling as they are moving.”

     —Lewis Shiner, author of Glimpses and Outside the Gates of Eden

“Michael Bishop has pulled off a rare and amazing feat. Unicorn Mountain successfully weaves such traditional fantasy elements as unicorns and Indian lore together with the all-too-contemporary. . . . Bishop’s characters and situations are completely real, gritty as unpaid bills and unmet human obligations—while also shimmering with the mystery behind the grit, the unseen behind the seen. This is a breathtaking book.” 

     —Nancy Kress, author of Sea Change

“A courageous book.  Bishop is at the top of his form.”

     —Greg Bear, author of Darwin’s Radio

“In Unicorn Mountain, Michael Bishop dresses the everyday world in a sense of wonder, and he makes the miraculous as real as Marlin Perkins narrating a Wild Kingdom segment about a unicorn roundup. Nobody is better than Bishop at mixing the grittily real and the utterly fantastic.”

     —George Alec Effinger, author of When Gravity Falls