Terry Bisson: 21 books

In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories is the new collection of sixteen fantastic, ironic tales by Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson uses the fantastic genres as do Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison, and like them, he is one of the strikingly original voices in short fiction today, with an audience that...

"This beautiful Dear Abbey ... a story of wonder, a story that ventures far into the future to the end of Time." —Brian Aldiss (from his introduction to the original edition)     Would you sacrifice humanity to save the planet Earth? Cole is an obscure professor...

"A terrific read ... Bisson blew me away!" —Bibliophile Stalker   Marooned on Venus, Hall and Chang of the first Chinese-American expedition are surprised to find themselves breathing Earth-normal air; and alarmed to find themselves captured by beautiful amazons mounted on foul-smelling...

"A wonderful story!" —Los Angeles Times "Mars a movie set, and astronauts for extras. Bisson strikes again. This is one trip you don't want to miss." —Lucius Shepard "Bisson makes Mars mysterious and exciting again. Funny, inventive and smart, the best kind of SF adventure!"...

A World Fantasy Award nominee "A genuinely fresh imagination at work!"  —Michael Moorcock "Any novel that encompasses John Deere tractors, tobacco planting in the South, wizards at the end of Time, a six-mile wide Mississippi Canyon, singing magic, and a '62 Chrysler racing...

Selected for: "Year's Best Fantasy 4," by David Hartwell "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection," by Ellen Datlow     Troy has a secret. And a problem. The secret is a flying machine, made of plywood and wire...

Lou has a magic box. It makes people do things they normally wouldn't. And Lou likes to watch. Terry Bisson's 1990 short story "Bears Discover Fire" won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and his all-dialogue story "They're Made Out of Meat" is one of the most widely-reprinted...

"A laugh-out-loud fantastic tale. Mordantly funny, fast-moving and sharp." —Bookpage "Science Fiction needs humor, and it is plentiful in this zany, seriocomic variation on Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451." —Publishers Weekly "Masterfully ironic!" —Philadelphia Enquirer There...

A New York Times Notable Book for 1996. "It is the Bissons of the field ... upon whom the future of science fiction depends." —Washington Post Book World "What's not to like? Laconic, corrosive future satire with a real space hero and vacuum jellyfish aliens that embody the strong...

Cloning humans is illegal—that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must now destroy him to protect their...

How many guys carry a parasail in their carry-on? And how many guys carry a key for every kind of car in their carry-on? Just one, and he's a TVA baby, and he sure knows a lake from a river. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 and ends in an isolated hippy commune under threat of revolution, provides a transcendent commentary on America then and now.

In this second volume in the Boba Fett series, while the Clone Wars rage throughout the galaxy, bounty hunter Aurra Sing takes Boba Fett to Count Dooku's lair on toxic planet Raxus Prime. Boba Fett thinks Dooku will help him become a bounty hunter...but Dooku has other plans, as do the Jedi. And when...

The Boba Fett series starts here! This adventure, which takes place between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, follows Boba Fett as a teenager. On his home planet of Kamino, he has no friends, no school. The one thing he does have is a future as a bounty hunter...