Left Left Behind

Hugo and Nebula award-winner Terry 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 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 United States, 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 Behinda sardonic, merciless, tasteless, take-no-prisoners satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise that spares no onepredatory 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, and 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 through the mind and work, the history and politics of our Outspoken Author. Surprises are promised.