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Terry Bisson


Numbers Don't Lie

Numbers Don't Lie

Wilson Wu and Irving

Terry Bisson

Now you can get Terry Bisson's three Wilson Wu novelettes in one place, including the Hugo-nominated "Get Me to the Church on Time". Wilson's been a rock musician, an engineer, and a pastry chef; he graduated law school and passed the bar on the first try. Drawn into adventure by his friend Irv, another lawyer with a talent for stumbling on strange phenomena, Wilson crunches the numbers. Together they find a junkyard dedicated to Volvos that conceals a rift in the space-time continuum, and a beaded seat cushion in a vacant lot that heralds the premature collapse of the universe. And when an airport baggage claim works like clockwork...? Check out the math (Bisson has scrupulously illustrated the stories with formulas, all of which have been reviewed for "elegance" by famed mathematician Rudy Rucker), and discover for yourself that NUMBERS DON'T LIE.

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The Hole in the Hole

The Hole in the Hole

Wilson Wu and Irving: Book 1

Terry Bisson

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1994, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld, June 2015. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelth Annual Collection (1995), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009), edited by Mike Ashley. It is included in the collection Numbers Don't Lie (2001).

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

Get Me to the Church on Time

Get Me to the Church on Time

Wilson Wu and Irving: Book 3

Terry Bisson

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998. The story is included in the collections In the Upper Room: And Other Likely Stories (2000) and Numbers Don't Lie (2001).

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