Terry Bisson, one of the most world\u2019s most popular authors of science fiction and fantasy, has died. He was 81.Bisson was perhaps best known for his 1990 short story Bears Discover Fire. He also wrote the well-respected They\u2019re Made Out of Meat. No cause of death has been determined.<\/p>\n
Bisson was born on February 12, 1942 and grew up in Kentucky, which ultimately became the setting for \u201cBears Discovers Fire,\u201d which won the Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon, and Locus award for that year.<\/p>\n
Bisson\u2019s first novel, Wylrdmaker, was published in 1981. He went on to publish several additional novels, with the last one, Any Day Now, coming out in 2012. He also wrote several books set in popular franchises\u2014such as 2002\u2019s Star Wars: Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive and the novelizations of The Fifth Element and Galaxy Quest. He also wrote a series of NASCAR children\u2019s books under the pen name T.B. Calhoun.<\/p>\n
Bisson was primarily known, however, for his short stories, and for writing Locus magazine\u2019s \u201cThis Month in History\u201d series, the latter of which ran for over two decades. In \u201cThis Month in History\u201d, he would write two-to-three sentence entries about an event happening at some specific date in the future. Over the years he wrote over a thousand future histories. His work and his life was also chronicled in an October 2023 profile in The New Yorker.<\/p>\n
In 1962 he married Deirde Holst and had two sons and a daughter with her. They divorced in 1966 and went on to live in New York and then in various communes before returning to New York in 1975, where he served as editor and copy chief at Berkley and Ace until 1985. During that time he married Judy Jensen, with whom he raised two daughters and a son. The couple moved to San Francisco in 2002, where he started the reading series \u201cSF in SF.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bisson his survived by his wife, Judy, as well as his children and grandchildren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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