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Terry Bisson

For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activist journalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative and outspoken authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anarchism, sexuality, creativity, and the future of humanity itself - no topic was taboo. Bisson's prankster spirit also shone through as he quizzed his subjects about what cars they drove, played free association games, and created an atmosphere of two old friends having intimate late-night c...

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Terry Bisson

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 like his father, Jango Fett. But when young Boba Fett finds himself alone in a dangerous galaxy, he must fight for safety—and vengeance. Boba Fett will grow up to be one of the most feared bounty ...

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Terry Bisson

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Spectacular Fiction

It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army.Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened...

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A Tor.Com Original

"Catch 'Em in the Act" is a Tor.Com Original from Terry Bisson, author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short story "Bears Discover Fire."Lou has a magic box. It makes people do things they normally wouldn't. And Lou likes to watch.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Terry Bisson, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson's thrilling sci-fi novel The Sixth Day, now a major motion picture starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Rapaport!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 prot...

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Terry Bisson

Sixteen darkly humorous and subversive science fiction tales from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson.In this collection of ironic and fantastic stories, Terry Bisson showcases his strikingly original voice that transcends genre boundaries. Clever, witty, and occasionally profound, these stories are sure to surprise and entertain.Highlights include:- "macs" ( Winner of the Nebula and Locus Awards): Clones of murderous cri...

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Terry Bisson

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 Boba Fett is caught in the crossfire on Raxus Prime, what he discovers there will change the course of his life.

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Terry Bisson

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Spectacular Fiction

Beginning with a harrowing, high-speed ride through the Upper South (a TVA baby is a good ol’ boy with a Yankee father and a 12-gauge) and ending in a desperate search through New Orleans graveyards for Darwin’s doomsday machine (“Charlie’s Angels”), Terry Bisson’s newest collection of short stories covers all the territory between—from his droll faux-FAQ’s done for Britain’s Science magazine, to the most seductive of his Playboy fantasies (“Private Eye”), to an eerie dre...

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A Tor.Com Original

Terry Bisson, author of the Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning short story "Bears Discover Fire," presents a Tor.Com Original, "The Cockroach Hat: A Literary Love Story."When Sam Gregory wakes up to find he has turned into a big cockroach, he is understandably dismayed. Luckily, the condition appears to be a little contagious.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Terry Bisson

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A Tor.Com Original

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson presents TVA Baby, A Tor.Com Original short story.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.

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Eric Miller, John DeChancie, Bond Elam, Terry Bisson, Lisa Morton, Kate Jonez, Del Howison, Michael Bailey, Edward M. Erdelac, Janet J. Holden, Jeff Seeman, Gary Phillips, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Sean Patrick Traver, Lucio Rodriguez, Carla Robinson, Paul Carlson

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18 Wheels

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit "18 wheels of Horror - a Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors."From the back cover: An alien fuel additive shows just how fast a big rig can go... A disembodied driver wages war on self-driving trucks... A haul through time takes an unexpected turn... Reality shatters for a t...

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Terry Bisson, Nalo Hopkinson, Rudy Rucker, Peter Coyote

In-depth, intense, insightful.For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activist journalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative and outspoken authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anarchism, sexuality, creativity, and the future of humanity itself—no topic was taboo. Bisson's prankster spirit also shone through as he quizzed his subjects about what cars they drove, played free association games, and created an atmos...