July 4, 2025By Luke McGowen-Arnold Chicago Review of Books An essay about Black Resistance, Imperfect Utopias, and Terry Bisson's "Fire on the…- June 11, 2020Fabulist Magazine Cover-art detail, "Fire on the Mountain," by Terry Bisson, PM Press. In Terry Bisson’s provocative counterfactual novel “Fire…
May 25, 2020A timely alternative history thought experiment turned novel. By Andrea PetersonPlain Great ProductionsMay 15th, 2020 I recently thought I had…- August 22, 2019Terry Bisson, author of ‘Fire on the Mountain’. Credit: Rudy’s Blog/RudyRucker Ecosocialist Horizons HourSeptember 1st, 2014 Join Ecosocialist Horizons Hour…
- August 19, 2019By Ed RampellHollywood ProgressiveMay 29th, 2019 John Brown is one of American history’s most fascinating characters. The American Spartacus, Brown…
- July 16, 2019By Scott BorchertThe IndypendentNovember 17, 2010 Near the end of Terry Bisson’s utopian novel Fire on the Mountain, one character,…
- July 16, 2019Bisson's Fire on the Mountain: alternate history in which John Brown wins at Harper's Ferry By Cory DoctorowBoingBoingJuly 28, 2010I…
- July 16, 2019By Ron JacobsCounterpunch Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane released an album titled Blows Against the Empire…
- July 16, 2019The Aqueduct Gazette NewsletterWinter 2011(V8) It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova…
- July 16, 2019By Sam J. MillerGuysLitWireAugust 13th, 2014 Maybe you remember John Brown from your history class. An abolitionist, he believed that…
- July 16, 2019Big Pulp Starting with a simple twist to American history—What if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded? What…
- July 16, 2019By Jo WaltonTor.comApril 22nd, 2009 After reading Kindred, I wanted to read something where the slaves were freed, and not…
