TVA Baby, it's a collection of short stories. I'd never read much of his stuff beyond They're Made Out of Meat (which is in every nook and cranny of the net, but now you have the 'official' link to the story, go read it). He always struck me as a faster-witted, funnier version of Phillip K. Dick. And as it turns out, that was a fair assessment in more ways than one: compare Fire on the Mountain (John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry is successful and alternate history ensues) to Dick's The Man in the High Castle (Allies lose WWII; again, alternate history ensues). Anyway, a couple of stories into TVA Baby I'm having a great time.
Dream Team: Quentin Tarantino makes a rapid-fire vignette movie from several Bisson short-short stories. I can just hear the dialog in They're Made Out of Meat being bounced between Jackson and Travolta. (Jackson speaks first. I double-dog dare you to read the story now, with those two voices stuck in your head.)
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