1990 - 03/1990 Meeting
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TERRY BISSON
His official site is: http://www.terrybisson.com/
Novels:
Dear Abby
Fire on the Montain
The Pickup Artist
Pirates of the Universe
Talking Man
Voyage to the Red Planet
Wyrldmaker
Novelizations:
Alien Resurrection
The Fifth Element
Galaxy Quest
Johnny Mnemonic
Jonny Quest: Attack of the Evil Cyber-God (as Brad Quentin)
Jonny Quest: Demon of the Deep (as Brad Quentin)
Jonny Quest: Peril in the Peaks (as Brad Quentin)
Star Wars: Boba Fett: Crossfire
Star Wars: Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
The Sixth Day
Virtuosity
The X-Files: Miracle Man
Collections:
Bears Discover Fire and other Stories
Greetings
In the Upper Room and other Likely Stories
Numbers Don't Lie
Collaborations::
Be First in the Universe (with Stephanie Spinner)
Car Talk with Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers (with Tom and Ray Magliozzi)
Expiration Date: Never (with Stephanie Spinner)
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (posthumous with Walter Miller Jr)
MEETING SUMMARY:
Meeting Date: March 10, 1990.
Meeting Site: Yeager Domicile, Paramus, New Jersey.
Official Attendance: 31.
Meeting Program: Talk by Science Fiction Writer.
Notes:
Meeting Memories:
Newsletter Account:
The following account is reprinted with permission from THE STARSHP EXPRESS Copyright 1990 Philip De Parto:
The Yeager family once again allowed us to hold a winter meeting at their home in Paramus. This is the fourth year we have done so and each meeting is more popular than the one before it. I suspect that next year's will be even bigger because this was a real good meeting. . . .
Our guest speaker was writer Terry Bisson. Mr Bisson has written four science fiction novels: TALKING MAN, WYRLDMAKER, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, and VOYAGE TO THE RED PLANET; this last book is scheduled for publication in July. He has also written two biographies, edited a book of writings by "political prisoners in the United States," and is at work on a collaborative effort with two men who have a radio show. Later this year he will have stories appearing in OMNI and ASIMOV'S.
Although he has lived in New York for ten years, Terry Bisson's stories are heavily influenced by his southern roots. TALKING MAN and FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN are set in the south, and he writes about the region with the same sort of authenticity that Simak had for the midwest. Among his other interests are automobiles which he worked into TALLKING MAN and radical left politics which influenced FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN.
In addition to the usual personal and literary background, Terry read from two of his books. The first was from TALKING MAN and was set in a southern bar and its parking lot. The second was from when the spaceship in VOYAGE TO THE RED PLANET slingshots around Venus. He is not a spellbinding reader in the same sense that Ellison, for example, is, but he was able to raise enough interest that he sold 25 books at the meeting, and I know that at least one person bought a couple at Lunacon.
Robert and Douglas Yeager gave the usual tour of the house before the start of the meeting. For those of you who have never been there, every room in this large bric-a-brac filled house has its own them. In one room, for example, the decor is Spanish. In another, south seas island.
Roberta Rogow had a table set up for her fanzines and made a few sales. She also mentioned that she had joined SFWA (the Science Fiction Writers of America) and had turned in the manuscript for her fan-slang book to her publisher. Nancy Cucci has had a story accepted pending re-write for a Sharon Jarvis anthology. Newcomer Charles Gannon has written extensively in the gaming field, so I introduced him to resident games expert Bill Molendyk.
Among the people I saw amusing themselves around the pool table were Robert Yeager, Charles Garofalo, and William Benthake. Fifteen month old Nancy Cucci Pietruska was the life of the party as usual, taking the opportunity to delve into any unattended pocketbook. Little Nicky Higgins was kept upstairs most of the night. The only downside was that no one would go out for a diner run.