Terry Bisson
(b.1942)
Other Bisson links:
Terry Bisson story showcase
Bio:
Born in Owensboro, Kentucky. Owned and operated a left-wing mail-order book service,
Jacobin Books, from 1985 to 1990 with his wife Judy Jensen. Writes novelizations,
comic adaptations, young adult novels, non-fiction, etc.
Currenty completing Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman,
the long-awaited posthumous sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz,
for the estate of
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Got this in my mail today;
Eastern New Mexico University is pleased to announce that science fiction
authors Nancy Kress and Terry Bisson will join Dr. Jack Williamson for the
1998 Williamson Lectureship on February 25. This year's theme, "Designer
Genes and Brave New Worlds," will showcase science fiction's treatment of
biotechnology and cultural evolution. Reservations are required for the
noon luncheon and may be made by calling (505) 562-2677 or (505) 562-2636
or by email at bundyg@golden.enmu.edu.
The 7 p.m. panel discussion is free.
Bibliography:
- Bears Discover Fire & Other Stories
- January 1995, St Martins Press Paperback Reprint Edition ISBN:0-312-89035-4
(
Amazon.com ordering info)
- Short story collection
- 1993, Tor
- The Fifth Element
-
Movie tie-in
- May 1997, Harper Mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-061-05838-6
(
Amazon.com ordering info)
- Fire on the Mountain
- 1988, Morrow
- A Green River Girlhood
- Western
- with Elizabeth Ballantine Johnson
- 1993
- Johnny Mnemonic
-
Movie tie-in, adapted from
William Gibson's
script.
- June 1995, Pocket Books Movie Tie in Edition Mass Market
Paperback ISBN:0-671-52300-7
(
Amazon.com ordering info)
- Pirates of the Universe
- 1996, Tor
- Talking Man
- 1987, Arbor House
- Virtuosity: A Novel
- August 1995, Pocket Books Paperback Movie Tie in Edition ISBN:0-671-53752-0
- Voyage to the Red Planet
- June 1990, William Morrow & Company Hardcover (1st Ed.) ISBN:0-688-09495-3
- September 1991, Avon Paperback Reprint Edition ISBN:0-380-75574-2
- Review
- Wyrldmaker
- 1981, Pocket
- August 1988, Avon Paperback ISBN:0-380-75359-6
- 10:07:24
- Spring 1995, Absolute Magnitude
- "Bears Discover Fire"
- Short story
- 1990 Nebula winner
- 1991 Hugo winner
-
"Dead Man's Curve"
- June 1994 IASFM
- 1995 Nebula nominee
- "England Underway"
- Novelette
- 1993 Nebula nominee
- "The Edge of the Universe"
- August 1996, IASFM
- "macs"
- Nebula (2000, Short story)
- October/November 1999, Fantasy & Science Fiction
- May 2000, In the Upper Room and Other Likely
Stories>
- "Necronauts"
- July 1993, Playboy
- 1994 Nebula nominee
- "Press Ann"
- August 1991, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
- 1992 Hugo nominee
- Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber
- comic, adapted by Terry Bisson
- DC Comics
- "Tell them they are all full of shit and they should fuck off"
- Fall 1995, CRANK
-
"There Are No Dead"
- January 1995, OMNI
-
"They're Made out of Meat"
- April 1991, OMNI
- 1991 Nebula nominee