Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

by Bisson, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780312890353
• ISBN10: 0312890354
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-15
• Publisher: Orb Books

Summary

Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly comic title story, which garnered the field's highest honors, including the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus awards.

Author Biography

Terry Bisson is an American science fiction and fantasy author, born on February 12, 1942, in Owensboro, Kentucky. His many novels include Talking Man (1986), Fire on the Mountain (1988), Voyage to the Red Planet (1990), Pirates of the Universe (1996), and The Pickup Artist (2001). His 1990 short story “Bears Discover Fire” won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and his all-dialogue story “They're Made Out of Meat” is one of the most widely-reprinted SF stories of the last several decades. He has published several volumes of short fiction, including Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories (1993), In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories (2000), and Greetings (2005).

Table of Contents

Bears Discover Fire	p. 11
The Two Janets	p. 24
They're Made Out of Meat	p. 34
Over Flat Mountain	p. 38
Press Ann	p. 55
The Coon Suit	p. 64
George	p. 68
Next	p. 78
Necronauts	p. 88
Are There Any Questions?	p. 121
Two Guys from the Future	p. 127
The Toxic Donut	p. 142
Cancion Autentica De Old Earth	p. 147
Partial People	p. 152
Carl's Lawn and Garden	p. 155
The Message	p. 167
England Underway	p. 172
By Permit Only	p. 199
The Shadow Knows	p. 206
Afterword	p. 251
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