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Bears Discover Fire", the title story in this eagerly awaited collection, is one of the most acclaimed science fiction stories of the Nineties. "Particularly delightful", raved The Christian Science Monitor, while Newsday called it "the finest story in the Dozois (Best of the Year) volume". Michael Swanwick, the Nebula Award-winning author of Stations of the Tide, pronounced it "one of the best genre stories of the decade, and an encouraging o...

Tomorrowing collects twenty years of Terry Bisson’s “This Month in History” columns for the science fiction magazine Locus, in which he imagines memorable events, each set in a totally different, imaginary yet possible, inevitable yet avoidable future.

Tomorrowing collects twenty years of Terry Bisson’s “This Month in History” columns for the science fiction magazine Locus, in which he imagines memorable events, each set in a totally different, imaginary yet possible, inevitable yet avoidable future.

The last years of the Christianization of Europe, the Viking Warriors from Scandinavian Countries were finally Christianized. With this their terrible killings, lootings, and taking slaves ended. They started trading in peace. Captain Leif was at the end of his sailing career and with his four children, he promised his wife he'd stop his sailing-trading expeditions. But he decided that he needed one more trip to cement his family's finances.So...

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Los iconos de un ordenador tienen un lÝo amoroso escapßndose entre tareas, un paleont3/4logo del siglo XXI asiste a los ·ltimos dÝas de los neandertales.

This timely collection of short stories leaves nothing in popular culture unscathed--from meetings with Somali pirates and a theory that Paypal is a criminal enterprise to an eerie reimagining of the 9/11 events and a visitor from Atlantis's search for a burger and fries. Additional stories include faux FAQs originally written for Britain's "Science "magazine and a seductive fantasy piece for "Playboy." Opening with a harrowing, high-speed rid...

Publishers Weekly" has called Bisson's prose "a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision, " and John Crowley hails Bisson as a "national treasure!" "Any Day Now" is truly a literary tour de force. It is a poignant excursion into the last days of the Beats and the emerging radicalized culture of the sixties from Kentucky to New York City and daringly unique. This road movie of a novel, which begins as a fifties coming-of-age story a...

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<, div>, Fearless, irreverent, and surprisingly optimistic short stories fill this collection from a science fiction veteran known for taking readers on a wild ride. The surreal adventures this time around include an escape from an assisted-death facility in "Greetings, " a mystical journey to the end of time and back in "Dear Abbey, " and "Almost Home, " the story of a fantastical ride in an old-fashioned aeroplane.<, br>, <, /div>,

Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful. Chronicling life in a thriving black nation founded by Brown in the former southeastern United States, this dramatic story opens 100 years later, just as Nova Africa is poised to celebrate its first landing of a spacecraft on Mars. The prosperous black state will soon be te...

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Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What...

Terry Bisson took the science fiction field by storm in the 1980s with brilliant novels such as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. Now, this new collection of short stories by Bisson brings together 19 of his finest works--including the darkly comic title story--many of which have garnered the field's highest honors, including the Hugo.

What do early "Star Trek" episodes have to say about race? Is post-apocalyptic literature about the dangers of technology mere entertainment, or a harbinger of things to come? This entertaining, enlightening collection brings together scholars and science fiction writers to discuss these questions and more. The essays examine how science fiction informs and inspires scientific research while breakthroughs in modern science spur authors on to m...

Fiction. The Left Behind novels (about the so-called "Rapture" in which all the born-agains ascend straight to heaven) are among the bestselling Christian books in the US, describing in lurid detail the adventures of those "left behind" to battle the Anti-Christ. Put Bisson and the Born-Agains together, and what do you get? THE LEFT LEFT BEHIND--a sardonic, merciless, tasteless, take-no-prisoners satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise tha...