Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories
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From the gentle fantasies that include the wry title story—winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards—to ecological allegories; a horrific novelette about experimental excursions into the realm of death; and a first-contact mini-epic, this collection of short fiction showcases the wide range of Bisson's powerful talent. In every piece, Bisson's characters are just as absurd as their fantastic landscape, yet thoroughly ordinary, recognizable, and authentic. His pack of scientists, artists, rednecks, insurance salesmen, astronauts, truck drivers, owlish British gentlemen, and others will stay with you like your best friends and quirkiest relations.
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Terry Bisson. (2012). Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. ElectricStory.com, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Terry Bisson. 2012. Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. ElectricStory.com, Inc.
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Terry Bisson has had a long, eclectic, and acclaimed career as a writer and publishing entrepreneur. He's scripted radio plays, talk-radio productions, and comic books; written novels and novelizations for both adult and young adult audiences; run a mail-order book service (with Judy Jensen), and published short fiction in many magazines just as prestigious as The New Yorker, thank you very much (check out his website (terrybisson.com); then you'll get it). His honors include the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Theodore Sturgeon, and Phoenix (Best Southern SF Writer) Awards. If you want a proper biography befitting the understated humor of his stories, you'll have to read the one on his website. Bisson is originally from Owensboro, Kentucky, attended school at Grinnell College and University of Louisville, and now makes his home in Oakland, CA, though we hear that Owensboro is becoming a hot town for writers.
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- content: "Bisson's stock in trade is whimsy where, at his best, he combines a splendidly loopy inventiveness with real poignancy, a hard-edged sense of wonder and a grasp of the genuinely alien. The exemplars here: the award-winning title piece, in which bears forgo hibernation in favor of camping out along interstate highway medians, warming themselves at ineptly smoky fires; the funny but affecting long story of alien contact and an aging astronaut ("The Shadow Knows"); a rather untypical life-after-death hair-raiser ("Necronauts"); a quite hysterically bizarre short-short about "Partial People," who are "people" only incompletely seen, or found in boxes, perhaps under benches, lips and eyes stuck under theatre seats like gum; and any number of agreeably batty commentaries featuring giant mountains, aliens, famous writers, computers, hunting, winged children, the environment, race relations, time travel, England, and what-all. About half the entries here are amusing if ephemeral; for the remainder, Bisson's distinctive style and priceless imagination lift his work to an altogether more exalted plane."
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November 1, 1993
When Bisson ( Voyage to the Red Planet ) began to publish short fiction a few years ago, his flair and sharp but homey good humor brought him instant celebrity and won him a Nebula Award for the title story in this, his first collection. Immediately clear from this array of stories is the astonishing range of Bisson's talent. Readers turn from ``Bears Discover Fire,'' a meditative tale that blends the irreconcilable sadness of the loss of a loved one with the weirdness of the very literal title, to the delightfully silly ``They're Made Out of Meat,'' a dialogue between two odd aliens about the nature of life on Earth, to the elegaic ``England Underway,'' in which a bookish Englishman confronts the New World, bringing all of England with him. Leavening even his most serious tales with humor, Bisson can deal with issues frequently blighted by stridency: three stories address environmental concerns with a black humor that enhances rather than mitigates their impact. Bisson's prose is a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision; he is one of science fiction's most promising short story practitioners, proving that in the genre, the short story remains a powerful, viable and evocative form.
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