Other recommended books by Terry Bisson

Talking Man (1986): A remarkable fantasy novel about a wizard from the end of time living in trailer at his junkyard in Kentucky tobacco country, his 16-year-old daughter Crystal, and his struggles with his sister, Dgene. Along the way, Bisson gives us a rapidly changing landscape, one of the all-time great traffic jams and a car chase to the North Pole.
Voyage to the Red Planet (1990): This Bisson novel was among the first in the proliferation of recent books about the first voyage to Mars. But in Bisson's madly privatized future, the journey wasn't sponsored by any government -- it was funded by a Hollywood producer of really bad horror films who wanted to make the first movie there.
Bears Discover Fire (1993): The highlight of this short story collection is the title story, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Bisson's short stories display a wider literary range than his novels, though there are a few weak ones. Among the other strong stories are Over Flat Mountain, about a trucker hauling a cargo over the Appalachians, which have risen to over 120,000 feet; The Shadow Knows, an excellent first-contact story; and Cancion Autentica de Old Earth, about as perfect a science fiction story as can be told in five pages.

Other Bisson books, which I haven't read, include Wyrldmaker, Fire on the Mountain, and the novelization for Johnny Mnemonic. -- Clint