Terry Bisson

"10:07:24" © Absolute Magnitude, Win 1995 In The Upper Room, 2000 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "Bears Discover Fire" © IASFM, Aug 1990 Bears Discover Fire, 1994 --short story : 1991 Hugo W --short story : 1991 Nebula W --short story : 1991 World Fantasy --winner : 1991 Sturgeon W --short story : 1991 Locus W --short story : 1991 Asimov's Reader Poll W --short story : 1991 HOMer --short story : 1991 SF Chronicle W --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Charlie's Angels" © Sci Fiction, Aug 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus /15 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award "Dead Man's Curve" © IASFM, Jun 1994 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 1995 Hugo --short story : 1995 Locus /3 --short story : 1995 Asimov's Reader Poll /5 --short story : 1995 SF Chronicle /3 --/ cool time sf story ---------------------------------------------- "The Edge Of The Universe" (Brooklyn/ Wilson Wu series) © IASFM, Aug 1996 In The Upper Room, 2000 Numbers Don't Lie, 2004 --novelette : 1997 Locus /2 --novelette : 1997 Asimov's Reader Poll /7 --/ fourth place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ humour award New addition to the honorable list of science-fictional nutty geniuses (remember Henry Kuttner's drunk professor, or some truly weird Ray Cummings "haunts of the laboratory" ?) - car mechanic / mathematician extraordinaire Wilson Wu saves the expanding universe from shrinking in this hilarious novella (complete with multi-level mathematical formulas). Add to it a "kosher" Brooklyn environment, wacky physics that just might be true, cosmological cataclysms that threaten the very fabric of our existence - and drink this soup slowly (it's hot) and perhaps with a pint of Guinness. I never expected the good old pulp humor to be resurrected with such vitality and aplomb - and enjoyed every sip of it. review: 18-Jul-06 (read in 2005) ---------------------------------------------- "First Fire" © Science Fiction Age, Sep 1998 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 1999 Locus /8 --short story : 1999 SF Age Poll W --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "Get Me To The Church On Time" © IASFM, May 1998 In The Upper Room, 2000 --novella : 1999 Hugo --novella : 1999 Locus /7 --novella : 1999 Asimov's Reader Poll /7 --/ third place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ humour award "He Loved Lucy" (also as "Lucy") © Playboy, Mar 2000 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus /10 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea: lovestruck AI --/ style award --/ humour award --/ rare find "I Saw The Light" © Sci Fiction, Sep 2002 --short story : 2003 Locus /17 --/ cool sf story "In the Upper Room" © Playboy, Apr 1996 In The Upper Room, 2000 --novelette : 1997 Locus /24 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "In The Upper Room & Other Stories" (coll) © 2000, Tor Books --collection : 2001 Locus /16 --/ fourth place sf collection --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award "Incident At Oak Ridge" © F&SF, Jul 1998 In The Upper Room, 2000 --/ fourth place time sf story --/ wonder award "The Joe Show" © Playboy, Aug 1994 In The Upper Room, 2000 --novelette : 1995 Locus /22 --/ cool sf story "Lucy" (also as "He Loved Lucy") © Playboy, Mar 2000 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus /10 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea: lovestruck AI --/ style award --/ humour award --/ rare find "macs" © F&SF, Nov 1999 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 2000 Hugo --shortlist : 2000 Sturgeon --short story : 2000 Locus W --short story : 2001 Nebula W --Translated Short Story : 2001 Imaginaire W --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Meat The Press" © Infinite Matrix, Feb 2003 "Not This Virginia" © Southern Exposure, Sum 1999 In The Upper Room, 2000 "An Office Romance" © Playboy, Feb 1997 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 1998 Locus /15 --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ emotion award "Over Flat Mountain" © 1990, OMNI Bears Discover Fire, 1994 --short story : 1991 Locus /23 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award "The Player" © F&SF, Oct 1997 In The Upper Room, 2000 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Press Ann" © IASFM, Aug 1991 Bears Discover Fire, 1994 --short story : 1992 Locus /5 --short story : 1992 Hugo --short story : 1992 Asimov's Reader Poll --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "Smoother" © F&SF, Jan 1999 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 2000 Locus /15 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Super Eight" © Sci Fiction, Dec 2004 --/ cool f story ---------------------------------------------- "Talking Man" (nv) © 1986, Arbor House --novel : 1987 World Fantasy --fantasy novel : 1987 Locus /27 --/ fourth place f novel --/ wonder award --/ style award One of the best post-modern fantasy novels. Here is the piece of review from "Publishers Weekly", could not say it better: "Having dreamt this world into being, the wizard called "Talking Man" falls in love with what he has made and retires there. He lives in a house trailer on a Kentucky hillside close by his junkyard, and he only uses magic on the rare occasions he can't fix a car the other way. He'd be there still if his jealous codreamer Dgene hadn't decided to undo his creation and return this world to nothingness. When Talking Man lights out to stop her, he gives chase into a West that changes around them. The geography shimmers and melts, catfish big as boats are pulled from the Mississippi, the moon crumbles into luminous rings and refugees from burning cities choke the highways. A novel of the new South with a liberal dose of the old, fantastic and gothic, a road novel leading to the city at the end of time, a postmodern apocalypse you can drive to in a '62 Chrysler New Yorker... this is a charming, literate, laconic tale, deceptively brief, teasingly allusive and very entertaining." review: 09-Jul-06 (read in 2003) ---------------------------------------------- "Tell Them They Are..." © Crank! 1994 In The Upper Room, 2000 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award --/ shock value "There Are No Dead" © OMNI, Jan 1995 In The Upper Room, 2000 --short story : 1996 Locus /9 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ emotion award "They're Made Out Of Meat" © OMNI, 1991 Bears Discover Fire, 1994 --short story : 1992 Nebula --/ cool sf story --/ shock value "Voyage To The Red Planet" (nv) © 1980, Avon Books --sf novel : 1991 Locus /5 --/ cool sf novel --/ humour award ----------------------------------------------

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