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Bears Discover Fire is a 1990 Hugo Award-winning short story by Terry Bisson. It follows an ordinary man going about his life shortly after bears discover fire. The focus of the story is mostly on the narrator and his nephew and mother.
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Bears Discover Fire is a 1990 Hugo Award-winning short story by Terry Bisson.Creator/TerryBisson. It follows an ordinary man going about his life shortly after bears discover fire. The focus of the story is mostly on the narrator and his nephew and mother.
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* [[spoiler: InferredHolocaust]]: The events at the end of the story suggest that [[spoiler: the humans and bears won't get along peacefully for long]].
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* [[spoiler: InferredHolocaust]]: The events at the end of the story suggest that [[spoiler: the humans and bears won't get along peacefully for long]]. %%InvokedTrope
* ItCanThink: Humanity is shocked when they learn that bears have discovered how to make fire. When the narrator sees this later on, he learns that they're in the early stages of this knowledge (the branches they use make more smoke than flame).
* ItCanThink: Humanity is shocked when they learn that bears have discovered how to make fire. When the narrator sees this later on, he learns that they're in the early stages of this knowledge (the branches they use make more smoke than flame).
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* TitleDrop: Early on in the story.
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* TitleDrop: Early on in the story.story, the first time one of the characters sees the titular event, he nonchalantly notes, "Well, I guess bears discovered fire."
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* BearsAreBadNews: Averted. The bears are not ''nice,'' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not ''nice,'' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: [[spoiler: The narrator's mixed emotions over his mother's death at the end of the story.]]
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* MostWritersAreHuman: The fact that bears have discovered fire is the central point to the story, but the focus is still on the human characters. Otherwise averted. The bears of the story are given few human characteristics.
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* [[spoiler: InferredHolocaust]]: The events at the end of the story suggest that [[spoiler: the humans and bears won't get along peacefully for long]].
* MostWritersAreHuman: The fact that bears have discovered fire is the central point to the story, but the focus is still on the human characters. Otherwiseaverted. The averted, as the bears of the story are given few human characteristics.
* MostWritersAreHuman: The fact that bears have discovered fire is the central point to the story, but the focus is still on the human characters. Otherwise
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not ''nice,'' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not ''nice,'' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.bears.
* MostWritersAreHuman: The fact that bears have discovered fire is the central point to the story, but the focus is still on the human characters. Otherwise averted. The bears of the story are given few human characteristics.
* TitleDrop: Early on in the story.
* MostWritersAreHuman: The fact that bears have discovered fire is the central point to the story, but the focus is still on the human characters. Otherwise averted. The bears of the story are given few human characteristics.
* TitleDrop: Early on in the story.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not 'nice,' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not 'nice,' ''nice,'' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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* CreepyUnlce: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.
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* CreepyUnlce: CreepyUncle: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.
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* CreepyUnlce: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.
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* CreepyUnlce: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.parents.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not 'nice,' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted. The bears are not 'nice,' but they aren't mean either. They're just bears.
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Bears Discover Fire is a 1990 Hugo Award-winning short story by Terry Bisson. It follows an ordinary man going about his life shortly after bears discover fire. The focus of the story is mostly on the narrator and his nephew and mother.
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Bears Discover Fire is a 1990 Hugo Award-winning short story by Terry Bisson. It follows an ordinary man going about his life shortly after bears discover fire. The focus of the story is mostly on the narrator and his nephew and mother.mother.
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!!!Story provides examples of:
*CreepyUnlce: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.
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!!!Story provides examples of:
*CreepyUnlce: Entirely averted. The narrator is arguably a better parent to his nephew than his nephew's real parents.
