Terry Bisson

Beginning with a harrowing, high-speed ride through the Upper South (a TVA baby is a good ol' boy with a Yankee father and a 12-gauge) and ending in a desperate search through New Orleans graveyards for Darwin's doomsday machine ("Charlie's Angels"), Terry Bisson's newest collection of short stories covers all the territory between-from his droll faux-FAQ's done for Britain's Science magazine, to the most seductive of his Playboy fantasies ("Private...

Hugo and Nebula award-winner Terry Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of "Bears Discover Fire" to the alienated aliens of "They're Made Out of Meat." He is also a 1960's New Left vet with a history of activism and an intact (if battered) radical ideology. The Left Behind novels (about the so-called "Rapture" in which all the born-agains ascend straight to heaven) are among the bestselling Christian...

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. Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...

In this second volume in the Boba Fett series, while the Clone Wars rage throughout the galaxy, bounty hunter Aurra Sing takes Boba Fett to Count Dooku's lair on toxic planet Raxus Prime. Boba Fett thinks Dooku will help him become a bounty hunter...but Dooku has other plans, as do the Jedi. And when Boba Fett is caught in the crossfire on Raxus Prime, what he discovers there will change the course of his life.

The Boba Fett series starts here! This adventure, which takes place between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, follows Boba Fett as a teenager. On his home planet of Kamino, he has no friends, no school. The one thing he does have is a future as a bounty hunter like his father, Jango Fett. But when young Boba Fett finds himself alone in a dangerous galaxy, he must fight for safety-and vengeance. Boba Fett will grow...

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.

When Boba Fett finds himself an orphan at age ten, he becomes a bounty hunter in order to survive alone, but the Jedi and Count Dooku have other plans for his young life.