No Enemy But Time

Michael Lawson Bishop (1945-2023) was an American science fiction and fantasy author known for over 30 books spanning five decades, including notable works like the Nebula-winning novel No Enemy But Time (1982) and novelette "The Quickening" (1981), as well as Brittle Innings, Unicorn Mountain, and Transfigurations. He received two Nebula Awards, four Locus Awards, a Mythopoeic Award, and a Shirley Jackson Award, among numerous Hugo nominations, for his anthropologically rich explorations of alien cultures and human ethics.