"History revisioned, turned inside out... Bisson's wild and wonderful imagination has taken some strange turns to arrive at such a destination."
-Madison Smartt Bell, Anisfield-Wolf Award winner and author of Devil's Dream

"You don't forget Bisson's characters, even well after you've finished his books. His Fire on the Mountain does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle did for World War Two."
̦George Alec Effinger, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for Schröouml;dinger's Kitten, and author of the Marîd Audran trilogy.

"A talent for evoking the joyful, vertiginous experiences of a world at fundamental turning points."
--Publishers Weekly

"Few works have moved me as deeply, as thoroughly, as Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain... With this single poignant story, Bisson molds a world as sweet as banana cream pies, and as briny as hot tears."
--Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row prisoner and author of Live From Death Row, from the Introduction.