Terry Bisson is an American science fiction and fantasy author, primarily celebrated for his masterful short stories. His work often delves into the boundaries of human experience and technological advancement with a distinctive, subtly absurd touch. Bisson's style is marked by its conciseness and remarkable ability to provoke profound contemplation on the nature of reality.
Tomorrowing collects twenty years of Terry Bisson’s “This Month in History” columns for the science fiction magazine Locus, in which he imagines memorable events, each set in a totally different, imaginary yet possible, inevitable yet avoidable future.
While Logan was in the Marvel Universe, the Wastelands fell even further into armageddon. Welcome to your new future, True Believers! And when Logan slaughtered the Hulk Gang, he spared its youngest member... but every burnout, sporto and motorhead in the Wastelands wants the kid dead - or under their control!
The writing's been on the wall for months now... Old Man Logan is dying. And he ain't going to get better this time. Sick from the Adamantium coating his skeleton, Logan's search for a cure has led to nothing but dead ends. But for once, he's actually trying to leave this world with some unfinished business. Can Logan take his last breath without slaughtering the X-Men again? Not if Mysterio has anything to say about it! Collects Dead Man Logan 1-5.
Publishers Weekly has called Bisson's prose "a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision," and John Crowley hails Bisson as a "national treasure!" Any Day Now is truly a literary tour de force. 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.
The controversial novel, once banned in the US, which tells the tale of what had happended if the civil war had been started by the abolitionists, not the slave owners.
Exploring surreal and adventurous themes, this collection features short stories that blend science fiction with humor and optimism. Notable tales include a daring escape from an assisted-death facility, a mystical journey through time, and a whimsical ride in a vintage airplane. Each story showcases the author's signature style, inviting readers to experience wild and imaginative escapades.
Young Boba, the one clone that bounty hunter Jango Fett is raising himself, grows up without a mother or friends, learning many hard lessons about life and survival which he will have to put to the test when he least expects it.
Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of an anti-energy, anti-life. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light. Every five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find. The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century. The film stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich. The Fifth Element is written directed by Luc Besson, the visually innovative director of La Femme Nikita and The Professional.
Johnny is a courier. He carries data, uploaded into his brain through a jack implanted in his skull. And so Johnny's troubles begin. The data is stolen, and to get it back the owners have hired the Yakuzza who intend to get hold of Johnny. But all they really need is his cryogenically frozen head.
