"When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mindor an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or the Rapture of the Nerds”? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing scientific speculations.This far-reaching anthology traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances ..."
"The latest volume of the prestigious anthology seriesThe Nebula Awards Showcase volumes, which have been published since 1966, collect the year's Nebula Award-nominated and winning stories and poems, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. This year's volume includes the winners of the Andre Norton, Dwarf Star, Rhysling, and Solstice Awards, as well as the Nebula winners, and features:"How Inter ..."
"The tourist shops of Prague sell dozens of items commemorating Franz Kafka. You can drink a latte in the Café Kafka, add sugar to it from a packet with Kafka’s face on it, and then light your cigarette from a box of Kafka matches. Franz Kafka died in obscurity in 1924, publishing only a handful of bizarre stories in little-known literary magazines. Yet today he persists in our collective imaginations. Even those who have never read any ..."
"Step right up to Nebula, Hugo, and Locus-Award winner James Patrick Kelly's thrilling new novella King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats. Here is an amazing spectacle of action, politics, love, and adventure to thrill the senses."
"Hugo and Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly may offer the “Promise of Space,” but he delivers so much more. The sixteen stories included in this collection demonstrate the versatility of the author as a visionary and science fiction as a genre. Exploring Directed Intelligence, space opera, and shared sensory perception, he paints vivid pictures of startling futures and fantastic landscapes. And while Kelly pushes the boundaries of ..."
Burn(1st Edition) by JamesPatrickKelly Hardcover, 178 Pages, Published 2005 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-892391-27-8, ISBN: 1-892391-27-9
"Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet Beekman's Pea, renamed it Walden, and created a utopia in which members renounce the technologies of human civilization. Marginalized by these newcomers, the planet's original inhabitants are resisting the colony's dominance by sett ..."
Rewired(1st Edition) The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology by JamesPatrickKelly, John Kessel Paperback, 425 Pages, Published 2007 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-892391-53-7, ISBN: 1-892391-53-8
"Cyberpunk is dead. The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out shades. Once radical, cyberpunk is now nothing more than a brand. Time to stop flipping the channel. These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook paradise, and the queen of England attack ..."
"Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our August 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by James Patrick Kelly ("The Rose Witch"), Caroline M. Yoachim ("Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion"), Kat Howard ("The Saint of the Sidewalks"), and Joseph Tomaras ("Bonfires in Anacosta"). Classic stories ..."
Freedom Beach(Reprint) by JamesPatrickKelly Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1986 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-4300-1, ISBN: 0-8125-4300-9
"Shaun Reed awakens to find himself in a strange world where he experiences dreams of his past and unexplained episodes of fantasy"
" This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow."
Sir Edward Newenham, MP, 1734-1814 Defender of the Protestant Constitution (Hardback) by JamesPatrickKelly Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Four Courts Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85182-752-7, ISBN: 1-85182-752-8
"The 16 stories in this collection run the gamut from cyber adventure and a ghostly haunting to chemically modified romance and a time travel mission to save the world. The Hugo Award winner, “10(to the 16th) to 1,” tells the story of a boy in the 1960s who gets caught up in a spirited adventure that becomes a desperate attempt to prevent a nuclear holocaust. In “The Cruelest Month,” a grieving mother is haunted both by the past and a gh ..."
Think Like a Dinosaur(1st Edition) And Other Stories by JamesPatrickKelly Hardcover, 275 Pages, Published 1997 by Golden Gryphon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9655901-9-8, ISBN: 0-9655901-9-4
"This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a twenty-year career and includes a dazzling array of work from hard science fiction to Twilight Zone-ish fantasies to stark futuristic horror.Thus the grim fable "Pogrom" presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the aging boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed proletariat who must support them. The landmark no ..."
Wildlife(1st Edition) Signed by JamesPatrickKelly, John Kessel Hardcover, 299 Pages, Published 1994 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85578-9, ISBN: 0-312-85578-8
"One woman's personal story shows how the life-styles of the rich and famous begin to permanently alter the social order when it becomes possible for people to purchase eternal life and super intelligence."
Look into the Sun(1st Edition) by JamesPatrickKelly Hardcover, 281 Pages, Published 1989 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-93148-3, ISBN: 0-312-93148-4
"The author explores the reality of searching for humanity in an alien society and what it means to suffer alienation"
"This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative fiction, this literary collection reveals that the lines between genres have already been obscured. Don DeLillo’s Human Moments in World War ..."
"If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers and radiates silently from our computer screens. Slipstream, poised between literature and popular culture, embraces the dissonanc ..."
Field Artillery Materiel Notes on the Development, Use and Care of Modern Field Artillery Equipment (Classic Reprint) by JamesPatrickKelly Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2019 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-333-21947-5, ISBN: 1-333-21947-4
"Excerpt from Field Artillery Materiel: Notes on the Development, Use and Care of Modern Field Artillery EquipmentTO complete his instruction in materiel he should know the use and care Of Fire Control equipment, Signal equipment, and the small arms used in the field artillery, pistol, auto matic rifle and machine gun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbo ..."
Grace's Family A Tor. com Original by JamesPatrickKelly 32 Pages, Published 2018 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-19883-9, ISBN: 1-250-19883-6
"Forever. And on board those ships, the intrepid explorers who give it all meaning. Grace's Family by James Patrick Kelly is a Tor.com Original short story."
Burn by JamesPatrickKelly 178 Pages, Published 2018 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-61696-259-3, ISBN: 1-61696-259-3
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