Talking Man

Talking Man
	1987 Avon Books edition
Author	Terry Bisson
Publisher	Arbor House (Hardback, 1986) ; Avon Books (Paperback, 1987)
Publication place	United States
Pages	192 (hardback)
ISBN	978-0-87795-813-0 (Hardback, U.S.) ; 978-0380751419 (Paperback, U.S.)

Talking Man is a 1986 fantasy novel by American author Terry Bisson. The book tells the story of a Kentucky mechanic called "Talking Man". Talking Man is a wizard who creates his own world.¹

Reception

Orson Scott Card rated Talking Man as one of the best SF books of 1986, saying "Bisson brings off his story of a Kentucky junkyard wizard with panache."²

Dave Langford reviewed Talking Man for White Dwarf #95, and stated that "quest to save the world from having never been involves a demented car-chase from Kentucky to the North Pole: enjoyably offbeat."³

References

Talking Man at Fantastic Fiction
"Books to Look For", F&SF, May 1987
Langford, Dave (November 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 95. Games Workshop. p. 12.

External links

Terry Bisson: the author's own website Archived April 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
Review by Jo Walton
Extract from Publishers Weekly review

[1] Talking Man at Fantastic Fiction

[2] "Books to Look For", F&SF, May 1987

[WD95-3] Langford, Dave (November 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 95. Games Workshop. p. 12.

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