Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson

Terry Ballantine Bisson (born February 12, 1942, Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

A distinctive characteristic of many of Bisson's short stories is that they consist "only" of dialogue, with a total absence of bridging text such as "he said". The reader is encouraged to visualize the characters, the setting and situation without the aid of any descriptive narration. A notable example of Bisson's "dialogue only" technique is his 1991 story "They're Made Out of Meat". This story consists entirely of a discussion between two alien intelligences discussing whether it would be wise to grant the human race membership in some sort of galactic federation. The aliens (whose physiologies are never disclosed) ultimately decide that humans, being entirely organic creatures, are simply too disgusting to be accepted. Shortly after its original publication, this story was reprinted in the "Readings" section of "Harper's" magazine: an extremely rare honor for a science-fiction story.

Bisson has also written several novels, including "Fire on the Mountain" (Avon, 1988), "Voyage to the Red Planet" (Morrow, 1990), "Pirates of the Universe" (Tor, 1996), and "The Pickup Artist" (Tor, 2001). In 1996, he wrote two three-part comic book adaptations of "Nine Princes in Amber" and "The Guns of Avalon", the first two books in Roger Zelazny's " Amber" series. Bisson also finished the writing of Walter Miller's novel "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman", the sequel to the classic "A Canticle for Leibowitz", which was left unfinished at Miller's death.

In the 1960s, early in his career, Bisson collaborated on several comic book stories with Clark Dimond, and he edited Major Publications' black-and-white horror-comics magazine "Web of Horror", leaving before the fourth issue. Artist Bernie Wrightson, with whom he worked, recalled [http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/04wrightson.html] , "That was done by a guy named Richard Sproul out in Long Island. His company ... put out "Cracked" magazine.... A fellow named Terry Bisson tracked down me, Mike Kaluta and Jeff Jones and presented us with a proposal to do this black-and-white horror magazine in competition with "Creepy"... Bisson (who was writing blurb copy for romance magazines when I first met him) left after the third issue under very mysterious circumstances — and the running of the whole magazine, for some reason, fell into [writer-artist] Bruce Jones' and my laps (and I can't remember if Terry said, 'Here, you guys take over the editorial', or if we volunteered)".

Bisson graduated from the University of Louisville in 1964. As of 2005, he lives in Oakland, California.

References

* [http://www.terrybisson.com/ Terry Bisson official site]
* [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/misc/tb.htm Infinity Plus: Bisson profile] (with link to short story "England Underway")
* [http://www.michaelswanwick.com/nonfic/bisson.html 1996 Philcon program book: Bisson profile]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/09/Bisson.html "Locus" (Sept. 2000): Bisson article]
* [http://www.iblist.com/author5800.htm Internet Book List: Bisson profile]
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External links

* [http://zelazny.corrupt.net/ambcomics.html The Chronicles of Amber] Adapted by Terry Bisson
* [http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT] a Nebula nominee by Terry Bisson. From OMNI, April 1991


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