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...

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...

"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.

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.

A brilliant collection by SF master Terry BissonBears Discover Fire is the first short-story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction writer of the decade, the author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Terry Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly comic title story, which garnered some of the field's highest honors, including the Hugo, Nebula, T...

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...

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...

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...

It's the only alternate universe. Just the one.Thanks to "bluegene", life is long. But out Route 42 near Goshen, it's also kind of dull. Just the thing to encourage an expedition into the only actual other universe, the place where…but that would be telling.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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...

True crime for kids. Or is it the happy childhood you never had? Thirteen tales. A wry, fantasy children's book to make adults laugh. Reminiscent of such greats as James Thurber and Lemony Snicket. Penned by SF troublemaker Terry Bisson, and illustrated by transreal cyberpunk Rudy Rucker. Also available in paperback as an all-text "Billy's Book," and an illustrated large-format "Billy's Picture Book."

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.