Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson, who was for many years a Kentuckian living in New York City, is now a New Yorker living in California. In addition to his Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction, he has written bios of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Nat Turner. He is also the host of a popular San Francisco reading series (SFinSF) and the Editor of PM’s new Outspoken Authors pocketbook series.

Photo (c) Rosalie Winard

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Praise

“Bisson’s work is a fresh, imaginative attempt to confront some of the problems of our time. It is the Bissons of the field upon whom the future if science fiction depends.”—Washington Post Book World

“With his sharp accuracy and sharp humor, he seems to me the Mark Twain of science fiction.” —Kim Stanley Robinson

“Terry Bisson is one of the sharpest short story writers in science fiction today.”  —Sacramento Book Review

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Praise

“History revisioned, turned inside out … Bisson’s wild and wonderful imagination has taken some strange turns to  arrive at such a destination.”
–Madison Smartt Bell, Anisfield-Wolf Award winner and author of Devil’s Dream

“You don’t forget Bisson’s characters, even well after you’ve finished his books. His Fire on the Mountain does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle did for World War Two.”
–George Alec Effinger, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for Shrödinger’s Kitten, and author of the Marîd Audran trilogy.

“A talent for evoking the joyful, vertiginous experiences of a world at fundamental turning points.” —Publishers Weekly

“Few works have moved me as deeply, as thoroughly, as Terry Bisson’s Fire on the Mountain… With this single poignant story, Bisson molds a world as sweet as banana cream pies, and as briny as hot tears.”
–Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row prisoner and author of Live From Death Row, from the Introduction.

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Praise

“Bisson is a national treasure!”
–John Crowley, author of Little Big

“Bisson can charm your toes off!”
—The Washington Post

“Bisson’s prose is a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision; he is one of science fiction’s most promising short story practitioners, proving that in the genre, the short story remains a powerful, viable and evocative form.”
–Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Book Events

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Reviews

• When John Brown Won
• What if John Brown won?
• TVA Baby on Rain Taxi
• The Left Left Behind: Sacramento Book Review
• The Left Left Behind: A Review
• The Left Left Behind: A Book Legion Review
• Terry Bisson: Personal Alternate History
• Science Fiction and Politics
• Outspoken Authors in Short Takes
• John Brown’s Story Lies A-Mouldering on the Page
• Fire on the Mountain: Tor.com review
• Fire on the Mountain: Alternate history with a political flavor
• Fire on the Mountain: A Review
• Fire on the Mountain on GuysLitWire
• Fire on the Mountain in Big Pulp
• BoingBoing sees a ‘Fire on the Mountain’
• “If you enjoy concise writing and mordant humor, you’ll enjoy TVA Baby.”

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Interviews

• Terry Bisson on Bookwaves discussing Any Day Now
• Ecosocialist Horizons Hour—Fire on the Mountain
• Watch David Gilbert on a Panel with Monifa Bandele, Terry Bisson, Kenyon Farrow, Matt Meyer, and More
• Galileo’s Dream: A Q & A with Kim Stanley Robinson
• Audio of Robinson and Bisson SF in SF Panel
• Kim Stanley Robinson Reading The Lucky Strike in SF in SF
• Video: Kim Stanley Robinson, Gary Phillips, and Terry Bisson @ CounterPULSE 10/13/2010

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