The author, Terry Bisson, is now in his 70s and has bowel cancer. :-(

This recent New Yorker profile and interview is a great read.

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Terry Bisson’s History of the Future

For more than two decades, one of pulp sci-fi’s masters has delivered headlines from a time line defined by the absurd.

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https://archive.ph/k0RRI#selection-573.0-577.119