Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Bears http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:22:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pursued by a Bear by Hannah Wolf Bowen http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pursued-by-a-bear-by-hannah-wolf-bowen/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pursued-by-a-bear-by-hannah-wolf-bowen/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:47:10 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1465 Title: Pursued by a Bear

Author: Hannah Wolf Bowen

Length: short story

First Publication: Strange Horizons, 2005

What the Story is About:

He was there, later, when they took the last bear from the wild. He followed her until she fell, tranquilizer dart bright against her shaggy coat. He watched the rangers winch her dead-weight body into the cage. He stood with right hand grasping left wrist, tracing the map of scars.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pursued-by-a-bear-by-hannah-wolf-bowen/feed/ 0 The Extinction of Ursus Theodorus by Ted Kosmatka http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-extinction-of-ursus-theodorus-by-ted-kosmatka/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-extinction-of-ursus-theodorus-by-ted-kosmatka/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:31:21 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1161 Title: The Extinction of Ursus Theodorus

Author: Ted Kosmatka

Length: short story

First Publication: Deep Outside, 2000

What the Story is About: “From behind chromed bars I watch her enter the lab. She is so beautiful to me. Tall, fair skinned, and bipedal, she is everything that I am not, but still she loves me.” Reprinted as “The Last Teddy”.

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Author: Theodora Goss

Length: short story

First Publication: Strange Horizons, 2003

What the Story is About: A fantasy story about the real reason bears make good marriage material.

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Author: Terry Bisson

Length: short story

First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, 1990

Awards: 1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, 1991 Asimov’s Reader’s Award, 1991 Locus Magazine Award, 1991 The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1991

What the Story is About: This is not hard science fiction in the least, but it’s an excellent story in which bears have indeed discovered fire and are camping on highway medians. That’s not really what the story is about – family relationships and growing old – but it provides the framework.

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