Терри Биссон - The Left Left Behind

“England Underway” (1993)

“The Message” (1993)

“George” (1993)

“By Permit Only” (1993)

“The Toxic Donut” (1993)

“The Hole in the Hole” (1994)

“Dead Man’s Curve” (1994)

“Partial People” (1994)

“Tell Them They Are Full of Shit, And They Should Fuck Off” (1994)

“The Joe Show” (1994)

“There Are No Dead” (1995)

“10:07:24” (1995)

“The Edge of the Universe” (1996)

“‘Hawk’ Debate Heats Up” (1996)

“In the Upper Room” (1996)

“The Player” (1997)

“An Office Romance” (1997)

“Get Me to the Church on Time” (1998)

“Incident at Oak Ridge” (1998)

“First Fire” (1998)

“Smoother” (1999)

“macs” (1999) —Nebula, Locus, Gran Prix de l’Imaginaire awards

“Pleasantville Monster Project” (1999)

“Not This Virginia” (1999)

“He Loved Lucy” (2000)

“A View From the Bridge” (2001)

“Charlie’s Angels” (2001)

“The Old Rugged Cross” (2001)

“The Hugo Nominee” (2002)

“Openclose” (2002)

“I Saw the Light” (2002)

“Come Dance with Me” (2003)

“Almost Home” (2003)

“Greetings” (2003)

“Scout’s Honor” (2004)

“Death’s Door” (2004)

“Super 8” (2004)

“Billy and the Ants” (2005)

“A Special Day” (2006)

“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (2006)

“Billy and the Bulldozer” (2005)

“Billy and the Fairy” (2006)

“Billy and the Unicorn” (2006)

“Bil/ly and the Circus Girl” (2006)

“Billy and the Talking Plant” (2006)

“Billy and the Magic Midget” (2006)

“Pirates of the Somali Coast” (2007)

“BYOB FAQ” (2007)

“Billy and the Wizard” (2007)

“Billy and the Spacemen” (2008)

“Captain Ordinary” (2008)

“Billy and the Flying Saucer” (2008)

“Catch ‘Em in the Act” (2008)

“Private Eye” (2008)

“Stamps” (2008)

“Billy and the Pond Vikings” (2009)

“Billy and the Time Skateboard” (2009)

“Billy in Dinosaur City” (2009)

“Billy and the Witch” (2009)

“Corona Centurion™ FAQ” (2009)

“TVA Baby” (2009)

“Farewell Atlantis” (2009)

A product of the New Left as well as the Old South, Terry Bisson has written for newspapers and magazines, film and stage, kids’ books and comics, and worked as an editor and an auto mechanic. His alternate history of John Brown’s raid, Fire on the Mountain , has just been republished by PM.

It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army.

Long unavailable in the US, published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.

“You don’t forget Bisson’s characters, even well after you’ve finished his books. His Fire on the Mountain does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle did for World War Two.”

“A talent for evoking the joyful, vertiginous experiences of a world at fundamental turning points.”

Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive (read “radical”) of today’s top rank SF authors. His bestselling “Mars Trilogy” tells the epic story of planet, and the revolution that the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. His latest novel, Galileo’s Dream , is a stunning combination of historical drama and far-flung space opera, in which the ten dimensions of the universe itself are rewoven to ensnare history’s most notorious torturers.

The Lucky Strike , the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM’s new Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until something goes wonderfully wrong.

Plus: A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions , in which Robinson dramatically deconstructs “alternate history” to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima that day.

As with all Outspoken Author books, there is a deep interview and autobiography: at length, in-depth, no-holds-barred and all-bets off: an extended tour though the mind and work, the history and politics of our Outspoken Author. Surprises are promised.

The explosion of wealth and development in downtown L.A. is a thing of wonder. But regardless of how big and shiny our buildings get, we should not forget the ones this wealth and development has overlooked and pushed out. This is the context for Phillips’ novella The Underbelly , as a semi-homeless Vietnam vet named Magrady searches for a wheelchair-bound friend gone missing from Skid Row—a friend who might be working a dangerous scheme against major players. Magrady’s journey is a solo sortie in which the flashback-prone protagonist must deal with the impact of gentrification; take-no-prisoners community organizers; an unflinching cop from his past in Vietnam; an elderly sexpot out for his bones; a lusted-after magical skull; chronic-lovin’ knuckleheads; and the perils of chili cheese fries at midnight. Combining action, humor and a street level gritty POV, Underbelly is illustrated with photos and drawings.

Plus: a rollicking interview wherein Phillips riffs on Ghetto Lit, politics, noir and the proletariat, the good negroes and bad knee-grows of pop culture, Redd Foxx and Lord Buckley, and wrestles with the future of books in the age of want.

When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the American Indian Movement protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage.