Kim Stanley Robinson and Terry Bisson will read and discuss their bodies of work

Start: Oct 20 2009 7:30 pm

Pegasus Books Downtown is pleased to welcome Hugo and Nebula award-winning authors, Kim Stanley Robinson who will read from The Lucky Strike and Terry Bisson who will read from The Left Left Behind, both issued as part of the Outspoken Author series from PM Press. Join us for a memorable evening.

PM Press honors Kim Stanley Robinson as part of its Outspoken Author series by re-issuing The Lucky Strike. This Outspoken Author book also includes a detailed interview and autobiography of the mind and work, history and politics of Kim Stanley Robinson.

PM Press has released The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson as part of its Outspoken Author series. Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of “Bears Discover Fire” to the alienated aliens of “They’re Made Out of Meat.” He is also a 1960’s New Left vet with a history of activism and an intact (if battered) radical ideology.

The Left Left Behind (Paperback)

By Terry Bisson

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9781604860863
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Published: PM Press, 10/2009

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The Left Behind novels (about the so-called “Rapture” in which all the born-agains ascend straight to heaven) are among the bestselling Christian books in the US, describing in lurid detail the adventures of those “left behind” to battle the Anti-Christ. Put Bisson and the Born-Agains together, and what do you get? The Left Left Behind--a sardonic, merciless, tasteless, take-no-prisoners satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise that spares no one--predatory preachers, goth lingerie, Pacifica radio, Indian casinos, gangsta rap, and even “art cars” at Burning Man.

Plus: "Special Relativity," a one-act drama that answers the question: When Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, J. Edgar Hoover are raised from the dead at an anti-Bush rally, which one wears the dress? As with all Outspoken Author books, there is a deep interview and autobiography: at length, in-depth, no-holds-barred and all-bets off: an extended tour though the mind and work, the history and politics of our Outspoken Author. Surprises are promised.

The Lucky Strike (Paperback)

By Kim Stanley Robinson

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9781604860856
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: PM Press, 10/2009

Other Editions of this Title

Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive of today’s top rank science fiction authors. The Lucky Strike, the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM’s new Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. Until something goes wonderfully wrong …

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars Trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica—for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program. He lives in Davis, California.

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