Bears Discover Fire

You take that grand conceit, you take that big what if idea, and then you blow it out into, in this case, a whole book, a whole novel.

Something that isn't a whole novel, but is a wonderful version, I think, of the same thing is Terry Bisson's short story, which is also the title of this collection of short stories, Bears Discover Fire.

So Terry Bisson, who is a science fiction writer, but he wanders off the kind of the classic beaten path of science fiction sometimes and gives us other things that are kind of speculative.

In this case, Bears Discover Fire.

Bears Discover Fire.

Like, so it starts out, there's this guy and he's driving with his brother and his nephew and he has a flat tire and he has to pull over on the median.

And he and his brother have kind of a little bit of a rivalry and some tension and they're not, you know, quite comfortable.