Terry Bisson
Author Terry Bisson’s interest in abolitionist John Brown dates from his days as an activist in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In addition to his award-winning science fiction stories and novels, Bisson has written children’s books, comics, screenplays and biographies of Brown, Nat Turner and Mumia Abu Jamal. A native of Kentucky, and a New Yorker for thirty years, Bisson currently lives in California. www.terrybisson.com
In this bracing and provocative alternate history, a Black socialist utopia rises in the Deep South after John Brown’s 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry succeeds.
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