Terry Bisson

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Multi-Author Series List

Star Wars

The Fight to Survive (May-2002)
Crossfire (Apr-2003)

The X-Files - Young Adult

16 - Miracle Man (Nov-2000)

Young Boba Fett

1 - The Fight to Survive (May-2002)
2 - Crossfire (Apr-2003)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Talking Man

    Delighted by the world he dreamed into existence, Talking Man, a godlike immortal, takes up residence in his creation as a Kentucky mechanic, but Dgene, Talking Man's dream-sister, tries to terminate the dream, by the author of "Wyrldmaker"...

  • Fire on the Mountain

    Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry had been successful. Chronicling life in a thriving black nation founded by Brown in t...

  • Wyrldmaker

  • Voyage to the Red Planet

    ""A wonderful story!" -Los Angeles Times "Mars a movie set, and astronauts for extras. Bisson strikes again. This is one trip you don't want to miss." -Lucius Shepard "Bisson makes Mars mysterious and exciting again. Funn"...

  • Necronauts

  • Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

    Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works f...

  • Johnny Mnemonic

    Using a data-storage chip embedded in his brain, Johnny smuggles information, but things go wrong when his employers are murdered, the download code is missing, and gangsters working for the stolen data's owners are in pursuit...

  • Virtuosity

    Sid 6.7, a criminal personality developed for training policemen via virtual reality, manages to escape to the real world, and Parker Barnes, a former policeman convicted of killing his family's murderers, is released from prison to stop him...

  • Pirates of the Universe


    In the shabby, war-torn, depleted Earth of the twenty-first century, Gunther Glenn wants to live in the utopian theme park "Pirates of the Universe." He only needs one more mission as a Space ranger--hunting the enigmatic Peteys, 1200-kilometer v...



  • The Fifth Element

    Dallas Korben, a Manhattan cab driver in the year 5413, is chosen to protect a beautiful woman, the Fifth Element, who has been sent by a group of elders to save the universe from an evil determined to destroy it...

  • Jackals

    Dallas Korben, a Manhattan cab driver in the year 2413, is chosen to protect a beautiful woman, the Fifth Element, who has been sent by a group of elders to save the universe from an evil determined to destroy it. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

  • Alien Resurrection

    The battle is on again, between a reluctantly reincarnated Ripley, and the deadliest aliens ever to hit the big screen! A top-secret military lab in deep space is the scene of a chilling experiment gone awry, as the monsters are reborn inside hijacke...

  • Galaxy Quest

    Twenty years after the end of the "Galaxy Quest" television series, the cast members are mistaken for real space explorers by a group of aliens, and are whisked off into outer space to save them from obliteration...

  • In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories

    In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories is a collection of sixteen fantastic, ironic science fiction tales by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson uses the fantastic genres as do Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison, and like...

  • The 6th Day

    Adam Gibson returns home from work to discover that a clone has replaced him, and finds himself separated from his family and pursued by assassins out to destroy him to preserve their secret as he struggles to reclaim his life and his family....

  • Miracle Man

    The X-Files - Young Adult - 16

    Losing Faith Young Samuel has the gift of healing. With just a touch of his hand, the crippled walk, the blind see, and even the most fatal of cancers are miraculously cured. But when one of his followers suddenly collapses and dies in the pulpi...

  • The Pickup Artist


    From the award-winning author of Pirates of the Universe, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, comes The Pickup Artist--a sharp, witty, and subversive exploration of the future of art, culture, and society. In the tradition of Ray Bradbury'...

  • Be First in the Universe

    Twins Todd and Tessa don’t always think alike, but there’s one thing they both agree on -- Gemini Jack’s is their favorite store in the mall. Where else can you find a remote control that works on people, or a mirror that sees 10 minutes into t...



  • The Fight to Survive

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 1

    BORN TO BE A BOUNTY HUNTER. Boba fett is not like other boys. His father, Jango Fett, is a bounty hunter. His planet, Kamino, is home to an army of clones. He has no friends, no school. The one thing he does have is a future as a bounty hunter. Thi...

  • Crossfire

    Star Wars
    Young Boba Fett - 2

    HIS MOST IMPORTANT ALLY IS HIS GREATEST ENEMY. Boba Fett is alone in the world. His father is dead. He's never had friends. The only thing that keeps him gooing is his desire to survive - and become a bounty hunter. Aurra Sing has taken him to Coun...

  • Greetings

    You’re about to face off with an Ashcroft van, break out from an assisted-dying facility, witness a volunteer crucifixion, endure a Neanderthal eviction, and journey to the end of time on a porch glider. Each of these ten blazingly satiric short st...

  • Numbers Don't Lie

    Everybody should have a friend like Wilson Wu.Rock musician, Volvo mechanic, trial lawyer, camel driver, aeronautics engineer, and entomological meteorologist, Wilson Wu is the man to call if you stumble on, say, a rift in the space-time continuum. H...

  • Planet of Mystery

    Marooned on Venus, Hall and Chang of the first Chinese-American expedition are surprised to find themselves breathing Earth-normal air; and alarmed to find themselves captured by beautiful Amazons mounted on foul-smelling Centaurs. "This can't be rea...

  • Billy's Book

    True crime for kids. Or is it the happy childhood you never had? Thirteen tales. A wry, fantasy children's book to make adults laugh. Reminiscent of such greats as James Thurber and Lemony Snicket. Penned by SF troublemaker Terry Bisson. This is a te...

  • The Left Left Behind

    Sardonic and merciless, this satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise provides a humorous and timely interpretation of the bestselling Left Behind series -- the adventures of those "left behind" to battle the Anti-Christ after all Born-Again Chris...

  • Catch 'Em in the Act

    Lou has a magic box. It makes people do things they normally wouldn’t. And Lou likes to watch....

  • The Cockroach Hat

    When Sam Gregory wakes up to find he has turned into a big cockroach, he is understandably dismayed. Luckily, the condition appears to be a little contagious....

  • TVA Baby

    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 A...



  • Any Day Now

    This tour de force, road movie of a novel is a poignant excursion into the last days of the Beats and the radicalized culture of the 1960s, from Kentucky to New York City and beyond. Written in a voice that is warmhearted and hauntingly original, "An...

  • Almost Home

    Selected for:Year's Best Fantasy 4 by David HartwellThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow"This gentle Golden Age fantasy...may surprise readers." --Kelly Link"Almost Home enters the secret life of c...

  • Dear Abbey

    "This beautiful Dear Abbey ... a story of wonder, a story that ventures far into the future to the end of Time." -- Brian Aldiss (from his introduction to the original edition)Would you sacrifice humanity to save the planet Earth? Cole is an obscure ...

  • The Sixth Day

    Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson's thrilling sci-fi novel The Sixth Day, now a major motion picture starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Rapaport!Cloning humans is illegal -- that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from...

  • Tomorrowing

    For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular “This Month in History” column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events—-four per month—-each set in a totally different...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Terry Bisson has published 34 books.

The next book by Terry Bisson, Tomorrowing, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Terry Bisson, Talking Man, was published in August 1987.

No. Terry Bisson does not write books in series.
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