Farewell to Terry Bisson, sf author whose "Bears Discover Fire" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1990 & the Hugo the following year, who died Jan. 10 at age 81. Along with a 3-decade career as a writer of short fiction & novels, he also edited Web of Horror, the short-lived (3 issues in 1969 & 1970) competitor to Warren's Creepy & Eerie that gave a start to the soon-to-be-illustrious likes of Bernie Wrightson, Frank Brunner & Mike Kaluta.
(He also remained an unrepentant communist until his death, having been involved with the far-left likes of the May 19th Communisit Organization & The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in the '80s. I find that intriguing, not only because of my own political leanings but also because my focus as a grad-school fellow in U.S. history at Arizona State in the early '80s was post-Depression America in general & the New Left in particular.)
(He also remained an unrepentant communist until his death, having been involved with the far-left likes of the May 19th Communisit Organization & The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in the '80s. I find that intriguing, not only because of my own political leanings but also because my focus as a grad-school fellow in U.S. history at Arizona State in the early '80s was post-Depression America in general & the New Left in particular.)
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