"Michael Bishop's Urban Nucleus concept was one of the great extrapolative achievements of science fiction in the 1970s. In the novel A Little Knowledge and the accompanying story cycle Catacomb Years, he gave it vivid life. Now, forty years later, he has drawn both books together in revised and re-imagined versions to provide modern readers with a single unified text of this vast vision of the near future." --Robert Silverberg, SFWA Grand Master
The City and the Cygnets ranks with the best of literary science fiction, on the level of Cloud Atlas or Life after Life. ... A Bishop book to savor." --Louise Marley, author of The Terrorists of Irustan
"Bishop [writes] in exquisitely crafted prose and with profound insight, compassion, and wisdom . . . If you've never read Bishop's work before, I envy you what you're about to experience." --F. Brett Cox, author of The End of All Our Exploring: Stories
Not all writers can sustain decades of excellence. But Mike can. Mike has. Mike does. This is not a simple book. But it's a profoundly satisfying one. Satisfying in the answers it gives, and in the questions it asks that will never, ever be resolved." --Kelly Robson, author of Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
