Appearing in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan 2006 (or thereabouts)--

PLANET OF MYSTERY

A novella about the first landing on Venus that will probably run in two issues.

Biography of the world-renowned journalist/death row political prisoner. Order it here .

"Opens an important window on the life of a brilliant and uncompromising dissident." --Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine.

"A powerful book--I couldn't put it down." --Sister Helen Prejean, author,Dead Man Walking.

"To read this book is to gain deep insights into the issues of race and poverty." --Howard Zinn

"A book that will inspire action--and life." --Chuck D

" This book moves as fast as a street-corner game...Bisson does a masterful job of defining the character of one of America's most profound journalists--a man the Pennsylvania judiciary is trying to murder--and exploring history's influences on him. Read these lines. Read between them, too, before it's too late. --Peter Coyote

Mumia is a first rate revolutionary journalist, a wicked satirist, an eclectic humanist scholar, and a friend to all who love justice. TB strongly recommends Mumia's own books: LIVE FROM DEATH ROW, DEATH BLOSSOMS, and his newest, WE WANT FREEDOM

TRADIN' PAINT (Scholastic, Dec 2001) Stock car racing legends and newcomers for young readers.

BOBA FETT: The Fight to Survive (Scholastic, April 2002) The Bounty Hunter's troubled youth.

BOBA FETT: Crossfire (Scholastic, 2002) More of the same.

BE FIRST IN THE UNIVERSE (Dell, 2000) with Stephanie Spinner. Kids meet alien at the mall.

EXPIRATION DATE: NEVER (Dell, 2002) also with Stephanie. Kids foil evil twins with help of mall alien.

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"a wild ride!"

--F&SF

PIRATES OF THE UNIVERSE (Tor paperback)

"The Most Reviewed SF Novel of 1996"

A New York Times "Notable Book" for 1996

"Surprising and compelling ... a stylish exploration of the dream-infested psyche of Gunther Ryder, who hunts extraterrestrials for a living, suffers from real and virtual sexual frustration, and discovers (to his and our satisfaction) that you can go home again." --NY TIMES

"A work of cunning sublety and complexity ...brilliant." --LOCUS

"Another gem from one of SF's leading innovators."--BOOKLIST

(Autographed hardcover available, $10 postpaid--email the author)

Don't miss ROGER ZELAZNY'S NINE PRINCES IN AMBER and GUNS OF AVALON, adapted by Terry Bisson for Byron Preiss and DC Comics. And here's a brief Appreciation of Roger Zelazny, my way of thanking him for his work.

Be sure and check out "They're Made out of Meat" is on permanent display as part of the Are We Alone? exhibit at THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION, San Jose, California.

GREETINGS & Other Stories is out from Tachyon. It contains three novellas and a bunch of short stories and

This Month in History compiled and edited by TB appears in Locus every month. "Those who don't know the future are doomed to repeat it."--D. Trump. An expansion and continuation of a feature that began in Eileen Gunn's Infinite Matrix e-zine.

Don't miss "Billy and the Ants" in the new (Oct/Nov) F&SF. "Read it to your kids. Not your ants." E.O. Wilson.

Check out the new AMAZON SHORTS. Mine's a one-act play about Einstein and some friends.

American Rebels edited by Jack Newfield and Mark Jacobson, has an essay by me on Edward Abbey. The follow-up 'bad guys' volume, American Monsters has my piece on evangelist Billy Graham.

... FREE STORIES courtesy of Free Speculative Fiction Online.

THE PICKUP ARTIST There's too much stuff. So thousands of CDs, novels, movies, paintings must be deleted every year to make room for new art. That was Hank's job. Until me met the girl in the bluebird sweater--

"Not only wit but a nice clean prose. I read it from cover to cover, and I didn't even have to." --Marc Norman, Oscar-winning author of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

"There are no solids. There are no things."

--R. Buckminster Fuller

Two Interviews:

Everything you never wanted to know,

but were always afraid not to ask.

SF Weekly Interview : with Nick Gevers for SF Weekly.

Find out the truth about all those lies!

non fiction

R.A. Lafferty (1914-2002) eulogy.

Introduction to Edgar Rice Burroughs, THE MOON MAID, Univ of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Written for AUTOMOTIVE NEWS millennial issue--Detroit, We Have a Problem

The Case of Mumia Abu Jamal

Intro to THE PERPETUITY BLUES, a major new story collection by Neal Barrett, Jr.

A Canticle for Miller: how I met St. Leibowitz & the Wild Horse Woman but not Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Seven Ways to Beat Writer's Block and How I Made Them Work for Me

The Primal Ooze, Clark Dimond, and the Kitchen Sink

The Black Panthers

Hawk Debate Heats Up

Bluegrass on the Banks of the Ohio

SF and the Post-Apollo Blues

Voyage to the Red Continent

This short poem CRAZY DUCK was written in 1963 when I was living in Louisville. First published in the Village Voice, it is considered by knowledgeable critics to be one of the top duck poems to come out of the 60s.

Owensboro Hall of Fame

Not so very long ago a science fiction writer was inducted into the Owensboro, Kentucky, Hall of Fame, along with such superstars as Darrel Waltrip, Johnny Depp, Cliff Hagan and Bill Monroe. Strong company for a lowly scribbler, and a great honor indeed.

Coming from Tachyon in September, the long-awaited--

Numbers Don't Lie is a "fix-up," a short novel formed from three long stories that appeared in Asimov's: The Hole in the Hole, The Edge of the Universe and Get Me to the Church on Time. First English-language hard copy publication. It stars math wizard Wilson Wu and his rather elementary watson, Irv (the perv). Based on actual incidents!

"A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." Rudy Rucker

An ursine classic, BEARS DISCOVER FIRE (the collection), now available from ElectricStory in Microsoft Reader and Rocketbook formats.

IN THE UPPER ROOM and Other Likely Stories (Tor)

"One of the field's truly distinct voices!" --Locus

"Cutting edge SF!" --Publishers Weekly

"Generously endowed with sharp wit, dead-on dialogue and the storytelling gifts of a born raconteur." --SF Weekly

"Rousing entertainment, underwear, equations, entities and all." --Kirkus

"Bisson's imaginative take-offs on string and chaos theories and the vagaries of cyberspace are as shrewd as they are playful. Witty stories with a timeless sweetness and allure. Speculative fiction that transcends its genre. A good choice for Douglas Adams fans." --Booklist

"Multiple dimensions, and every single one of them includes lingerie." --SF Site

SAINT LEIBOWITZ AND THE WILD HORSE WOMAN

By Walter M. Miller, Jr. (Bantam)

I completed the book after Miller's death--see story in "Articles" or access it HERE. This is a very different book than CANTICLE--a mature, wry, almost Tolstoyan exploration of the conflict between Spirit and Flesh played out on the High Plains of North America (circa 2800) and in the soul of one persistent and bright if not terribly wise young monk.

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video scripts

Oak Ridge, written as an original screenplay for F&SF, won me a 1998 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Screenwriting and Playwriting.

Press Ann was a 1993 Hugo nominee.

The less said about TPMP, the better.

Press Ann

Incident At Oak Ridge

The Pleasantville Monster Project

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stage plays

Adapted from my own short stories. There's another one on Amazon Shorts.

Next

Two Guys From the Future

They're Made Out of Meat

The Toxic Donut

The Joe Show

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radio drama

The SciFi Channel's Seeing Ear Theater features several adaptations of TB stories ( "They're Made out of Meat," "Next," and "The Toxic Donut") and also two collaborations with Brian Smith--"The Flat Edge of the Earth" and "Orson the Alien."

"The Toxic Donut" is performed by film star Peter Coyote. TB worked with Peter on his powerful 60s memoir, SLEEPING WHERE I FALL, a book that ranks with Malcolm Cowley's EXILE'S RETURN as a sensitive and revealing portrait of a generation in revolt.