Greetings: & Other Stories - Hardcover

Bisson, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892391244 ISBN 13: 9781892391247

Publisher: Tachyon Publications, 2005

Synopsis

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 stories will leave you exhausted, outraged, and eager for the next ride. Often compared to Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, and James Morrow, Terry Bisson spins out radically irreverent tales.

About this title

About the Author:

Terry Bisson is the author of Talking Man, Fire on the Mountain, The Pickup Artist, and Any Day Now. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire awards. He is best known for his short fiction, which has been collected in Bears Discover Fire, In the Upper Room, Greetings, and TVA Baby. Terry is the editor of the Outspoken Authors Series published by PM Press. In conjunction with Tachyon Publications, Bisson hosts the monthly SF in SF reading series in San Francisco.

Review:

In Bisson’s third story collection, the veteran satirist’s prodigious wit and inventiveness demonstrate why some of his peers regard him as a national treasure.... Bisson’s distinctive minimalist style leaves plenty of room for disarming social satire that keeps one amused and pleasantly provoked.”
Booklist

Bisson fans are bound to savor this strong story collection from the Hugo and Nebula Award winner, but it should be particularly revelatory to new readers in search of crisp black comedy and satire. The lighthearted I Saw the Light’ turns the classic alien contact story (with props from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001) upside down, while the terse Openclose’ offers a glimpse into one future sponsored by the Office of Homeland Security. Capital punishment and religious education feed a surreal media circus in The Old Rugged Cross.’ In the title story, legally ordered assisted suicide is supposed to help maintain world population, but no one from suicides to the accidentally maimed and the hacked-up victims of genocide can find peace while stuck waiting at Death’s Door.’ The haunting Scout’s Honor’ and the gently elegiac Almost Home’ balance the bleak chills. The volume closes with the striking Dear Abbey,’ about a desperate attempt to save the Earth from ecological disaster by traveling to the end of time.”
Publishers Weekly

One of SF’s leading innovators.”
Booklist

Every word he writes is worth reading, even though a lot of them are the same ones.”
John Crowley

About this edition

• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1892391244
• ISBN 13: 9781892391247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384