Терри Биссон - The Left Left Behind

Plus: “Writing During World War Three,” a politically un-correct take on multiculturalism from an SF point-of-view; and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.

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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards

Theodore Sturgeon award

Locus award

Phoenix award

Gran Prix de l’Imaginaire

“Bisson walks in the footsteps of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut.”

“Bisson looks at things from unique and persnickety angles… with a cockeyed clarity that transfigures either the world or our own nearsighted take on it, if not both.”

“It is the Bissons of the field upon whom the future of science fiction depends.”

“A major talent… a skillful writer and storyteller.”

“A knack for capturing a reality that’s never as simple as we would like to believe.”

“One of SFs most promising short story practitioners!”

1. The Left Left Behind

Terry Bisson

2. The Lucky Strike

Kim Stanley Robinson

3. The Underbelly

Gary Phillips

4. Mammoths of the Great Plains

Eleanor Arnason

Terry Bisson © 2009

This edition © 2009 PM Press

First published:

“The Left Left Behind: Let Their People Go!”

Postscripts #15 , PS Publishing, September 2008.

“Special Relativity “

Amazon Shorts , 2006.

ISBN: 978-1-60486-086-3

LCCN: 2009901392

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Cover: John Yates/Stealworks.com

Inside design: Josh MacPhee/Justseeds.org