Numbers Don't Lie

by Terry Bisson and TurtleMe

Book Overview

Everybody should have a friend like Wilson Wu. Rock musician, Volvo mechanic, trial lawyer, camel driver, aeronautics engineer, and entomological meteorologist, Wilson Wu is the man to call if you stumble on, say, a rift in the space-time continuum. He'll do the math. You handle the financial transactions, especially with the guy who runs the junkyard. Gently witty, seductive, and intoxicating as Kentucky whiskey in Park Slope, Numbers Don't Lie takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892391325
• ISBN13: 9781892391322
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Another fine book by Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson is a very entertaining author. I've enjoyed all of his books and stories, and look forward to more.

Convoluted, splendidly-silly tall tales. 4.6 stars

This is a collection of the three Wilson Wu stories (first published in Asimov's, 1994-98), gathered into a nice little fixup 'novel'. The first, "The Hole in the Hole" introduces Wu and his Brooklyn pal Irving, as they search for an all-Volvo junkyard -- which, the author notes, really exists (or did) in the real Hole in darkest Brooklyn. Presumably the real Frankie's lacks the periodic incongruent neotopological adjacency (aka the lunar tire-dump) that is the centerpiece of this convoluted and very entertaining tall tale.. Which you may well have already seen -- it was a Hugo nominee, and has been reprinted several times. The other two stories aren't quite up to HOLE -- but they're still pretty darned good. Recommended. The author's website, terrybisson[dot]com, is well worth a visit, and has several free stories, if you're new to Bisson. Happy reading-- Peter D. Tillman

Renews your sense of wonder

This was the type of book that drew me into science fiction in the first place. It ranks up there with Heinlein's juveniles. And I mean that as high praise. The only thing juvenile about that famous series of novels was that they avoided sex and extreme violence.