Book description
Xavier Thaxton is the arts editor of a great metropolitan newspaper,
and is a man whose aesthetic values are of only the highest calibre.
But after an accidental dip in a radioactive swimming hole, Xavier
finds his life changing as he is forced, step by step, despite all he
can do, to assume the mantle and manner of a comic book superhero, and
to be a living icon of the pop culture he has spent his life detesting.
Michael Bishop (1945 - )
Michael Bishop was born in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. After receiving an
MA in English from the University of Georgia, Bishop taught at the USAF
Academy Preparatory School in Colorado, but soon began placing his short
stories with the likes of Galaxy Science Fiction
, If
and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
. His first novel, A Funeral For The Eyes Of Fire
, brought comparisons with Ursula Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr and
received a Nebula nomination. It was followed by a number of critically
acclaimed works including BSFA Award-nominated Transfigurations,
Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated Ancient Of Days, and No
Enemy But Time, for which he won the Nebula Award for Best
Novel. Michael Bishop lives in Georgia, where he is
writer-in-residence at LaGrange College.
