Title: Unicorn Mountain
Title Record # 943
Author: Michael Bishop
Date: 1988-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Michael Bishop
Date: 1988-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Arbor House first edition: "Unicorn Mountain is the story of four people whose lives are transformed by a band of unicorns. Each one of them is enmeshed in the grinding anxieties of daily life. Libby Quarrels is a divorced rancher in the Colorado mountains, just getting by, and unsure about how to react to the fact that she sometimes sees unicorns up in the high valley; Bo Gavin is an Atlanta adman who is gay and has AIDS, who has no one to turn to until Libby takes him in; Sam Coldpony, a Ute Indian and Libby's ranch hand, is estranged from his wife and daughter and has an uncomfortable feeling that he deserves supernatural punishment; Paisley Coldpony, Sam's daughter, is literally haunted by her mother, a recent suicide, and feels the call to become the true shaman of her tribe - a big burden for a teenager in a small-town high school. And then there are the unicorns.
Sam and Libby have seen them, but sometimes they just aren't there. And while Libby is off fetching Bo in Atlanta, Sam sees one die - and vanish. But Bo begins to receive television channels from another world, and sees a show, hosted by Marlin Perkins, on a deadly equine disease among the unicorns. And it becomes evident that someone has to do something here, in this world, to save the unicorns, before everything becomes so direly messed up that the situation is totally out of control: because Bo is dying, a vengeful ghost is after Sam, Paisley is looking for the father who abandoned her, and Libby, holding everything together by hard work and will power, is definitely losing her grip.
But this is a book in which magic works, in such a way as to change everything for the better. And in the end Unicorn Mountain is about salvation even when the odds are against you."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 1988 Lambda | Gay Men's Mystery/Science Fiction |
Win | 1989 Mythopoeic | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award |
4 | 1989 Locus | Best Fantasy Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Unicorn Mountain | 1988-06-00 | Michael Bishop | Arbor House / William Morrow | 0-87795-953-6 | $18.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 367 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Bryn Barnard | |
Unicorn Mountain | 1988-11-00 | Michael Bishop | Arbor House / William Morrow / SFBC | 14230 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
x+ 406 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Bryn Barnard | |
Unicorn Mountain | 1989-07-00 | Michael Bishop | Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions) | 0-553-27904-1 | $4.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 418 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | John Jinks | |
Unicorn Mountain | 1989-08-00 | Michael Bishop | Grafton | 0-246-13465-8 | £7.95?£: UK pound |
x+ 348 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Steve Crisp | |
Unicorn Mountain | 1989-08-00 | Michael Bishop | Grafton | 0-246-13462-3 | £12.95?£: UK pound |
x+ 348 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Steve Crisp | |
Unicorn Mountain | 1990-08-00 | Michael Bishop | Grafton | 0-586-20617-5 | £4.50?£: UK pound |
495 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Steve Crisp | |
Die Einhorn-Berge | 1991-04-00 | Michael Bishop | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4788) | 3-453-04511-4 | DM 16.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
510 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Dieter Rottermund | |
Unicorn Mountain | 2000-07-00 | Michael Bishop | ElectricStory.com | 1-930815-21-2 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Catska Ench , Cory Ench | ||
Unicorn Mountain | 2000-07-00 | Michael Bishop | ElectricStory.com | 1-930815-20-4 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Catska Ench , Cory Ench | ||
Unicorn Mountain | 2000-07-00 | Michael Bishop | ElectricStory.com | 1-930815-44-1 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Catska Ench , Cory Ench | ||
Unicorn Mountain: A Novel of an Alternative 1985 in the History of the United States | 2020-07-14 | Michael Bishop | Kudzu Planet Productions | 978-1-933846-94-1 | $18.99?$: US dollar |
349 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Unicorn Mountain: A Novel of an Alternative 1985 in the History of the United States | 2020-07-14 | Michael Bishop | Kudzu Planet Productions | $5.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by Tom Whitmore (1988) in Locus, #327 April 1988
- Review by Orson Scott Card (1988) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1988
- Review [French] by Patrick Marcel (1988) in Yellow Submarine, #57
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1988) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1988
- Review by Martha Soukup (1988) in IAFA Newsletter, Summer 1988
- Review by Dwight Brown (1988) in Nova Express, Summer 1988
- Review by Lenny Bailes (1989) in Science Fiction Eye, #5, July 1989
- Review [French] by Pascal J. Thomas (1989) in A&A, #126-127
- Review by Andrew Andrews [as by Andrew M. Andrews] (1989) in Thrust, #33, Spring 1989
- Review by Gwyneth Jones (1989) in Foundation, #44 Winter 1988/89
- Review by John Clute (1990) in Interzone, #33 January-February 1990
- Review by Helen McNabb (1990) in Vector 154
- Review by Brendan Wignall (1990) in Paperback Inferno, #87
- Review by Elaine Cochrane (1992) in SF Commentary, #71/72
- Review by Joe Sanders (1998) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1998
- Review by Charles de Lint (2001) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001