TVA Baby

TVA Baby

Beginning with a harrowing, high-speed ride through the Upper South (a TVA is a "good ol' boy" with a yankee father and a 12-gauge) and ending in a desperate search through New Orleans graveyards for Darwin's doomsday machine ("Charlie's Angels"), Terry Bisson's newest collection of short stories covers all the territory between-from his droll faux-FAQs done for Britain's Science magazine, to the most seductive of his Playboy fantasies (Private Eye), to an eerie, dreamlike evocation of the 9/11 that might have been ("A Perfect Day"). On the way we meet up with Somali pirates, a perfect-crime appliance (via PayPal), and a visitor from Atlantis who just wants a burger with fries, please.