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Books by John Kessel
  | | Pride and Prometheus(Reprint) by John Kessel Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2018 by Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8148-9, ISBN: 1-4814-8148-7 |
 | | The Moon and the Other(Reprint) by John Kessel Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2017 by Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8145-8, ISBN: 1-4814-8145-2 "A Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selection of 2017 “Charming, sexy.” —The Washington Post John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people live in underground cities below the moo ..." |
 | | The Secret History of Science Fiction by T. Coraghessan Boyle, John Kessel, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, James Patrick Kelly, Don Delillo, Karen Joy Fowler Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2009 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-892391-93-3, ISBN: 1-892391-93-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Rewired(1st Edition) The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology by James Patrick Kelly, 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 ..." |
 | | The Baum Plan for Financial Independence(1st Edition) and Other Stories by John Kessel Paperback, 315 Pages, Published 2008 by Small Beer Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-50-8, ISBN: 1-931520-50-X ""Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. A long-awaited collection of fourteen stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O’Connor. Kessel, whose story "A Clean Escape" was filmed as part of A ..." |
 | | Digital Rapture The Singularity Anthology by John Kessel, James Patrick Kelly, Charles Stross, Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil Phd, Ray Kurzweil, Cory Doctorow Paperback, 431 Pages, Published 2012 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-61696-070-4, ISBN: 1-61696-070-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Kafkaesque(Illustrated) Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by John Kessel, James Patrick Kelly, Tachyon Publications Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2011 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-61696-049-0, ISBN: 1-61696-049-3 "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 ..." |
 | | Pride and Prometheus(1st Edition) by John Kessel Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2018 by Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8147-2, ISBN: 1-4814-8147-9 "“Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful.” —Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves Pride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic Victor Frankenstein and befriends his monstrous Creature in this clever fusion of two popular classics.Threatened with destruction unless he fashions a wife for hi ..." |
 | | The Moon and the Other(1st Edition) by John Kessel Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2017 by Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8144-1, ISBN: 1-4814-8144-4 "A Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selection of 2017 “Charming, sexy.” —The Washington Post John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people live in underground cities below the moo ..." |
 | | Meeting in Infinity(1st Edition) Allegories & Extrapolations by John Kessel, J. K. Potter Hardcover, 309 Pages, Published 1992 by Arkham House ISBN-13: 978-0-87054-164-3, ISBN: 0-87054-164-1 "After receiving the Nebula Award in 1983 for his stunning nouvelle "Another Orphan, " John Kessel has written a group of stories that for sheer imaginative audacity defy conventional classification. In "The Pure Product" an amoral time-traveler embarks upon a harrowing joyride through the Midwest; "The Big Dream" is a 1920s hardboiled detective thriller in the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler; while Faustfeathers" involves a head-on coll ..." |
 | | Feeling Very Strange(1st Edition) The Slipstream Anthology by James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-892391-35-3, ISBN: 1-892391-35-X "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 ..." |
 | | The Baum Plan for Financial Independence(1st Edition) and Other Stories by John Kessel Hardcover, 315 Pages, Published 2008 by Small Beer Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-51-5, ISBN: 1-931520-51-8 ""Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette.A long-awaited collection of fourteen stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O’Connor. Kessel, whose story "A Clean Escape" was filmed as part of AB ..." |
 | | Corrupting Dr Nice(Updated) Corrupting Dr Nice (HB) by John Kessel Paperback, 287 Pages, Published 1999 by Gollancz ISBN-13: 978-1-85798-893-2, ISBN: 1-85798-893-0 "Kessel's fluent, cinematic and often very funny SF comedy ranges from the late Cretaceous era through first-century AD Jerusalem to America in 2063. In this variant of time travel, each moment can be a separate universe. Thus one particular moment of early Jerusalem has spun off a new timeline where time-travellers saved Jesus, overthrew the Romans and imported future technology--and now run excursions to unspoilt moments where ..." |
 | | Corrupting Dr. Nice(1st Edition) by John Kessel, Ron Kessel Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 1997 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86116-2, ISBN: 0-312-86116-8 "In John Kessel's world, time travel has given humanity a great gift: the ability to exploit an almost infinite number of alternate pasts. And exploit it they have. Sightseeing tours to the crucifixion and front row seats at Caesar's assassination are just the beginning. But nice-guy Dr. Owen Vannice just wants to bring a dinosaur named Wilma forward for study. Then he meets August and Genevieve, a father-and-daughter con artist team, an ..." |
 | | Good News From Outer Space(1st Edition) by John Kessel, J. Lessel Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1995 by Orb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89041-4, ISBN: 0-312-89041-9 "As the calendar counts down the months to the year 2000, millennial fever takes hold in the United States. George Eberhart, reporter for the biggest tabloid in the world, is on the track of what might be the story of the century--he has evidence that there really are aliens on planet Earth." |
 | | Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (Nebula Awards Showcase (Paperback)) by James Patrick Kelly, Joseph Kessel, Editors John Kessel, Harlan Ellison, Connie Willis, Howard Hendrix, Kij Johnson, Chris Barzak, Eric James Stone, John Kessel Paperback, 335 Pages, Published 2012 by Pyr Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-61614-619-1, ISBN: 1-61614-619-2 "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 ..." |
 | | Good News from Outer Space(1st Edition) by John Kessel Hardcover, 402 Pages, Published 1989 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-93178-0, ISBN: 0-312-93178-6 "In 1998, a reporter for a tabloid suspects that the aliens the highly successful Reverend Jimmy-Don Gilray predicts will arrive to usher in the Millennium have already arrived" |
 | | Intersections(1st Edition) The Sycamore Hill Anthology by John Kessel, Richard Butner, Mark Van Name Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1998 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86384-5, ISBN: 0-312-86384-5 "Each year, the invitation-only Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference brings together some of science fiction's greatest authors in a workshop focused on short SF/fantasy. In 1994, all stories submitted to the workshop were collected for Intersections. These 13 stories and one novel chapter, some rewritten by the authors to incorporate workshop critiques, are accompanied by authors' afterwords and by comments that were made about each story. ..." |
 | | Memory’s Tailor(1st Edition) by Lawrence Rudner, John Kessel, Susan Ketchin Hardcover, 297 Pages, Published 1998 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-090-0, ISBN: 1-57806-090-7 " Alexandr Davidowich Berman has made his living sewing costumes for the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. Old, weary, and alert to anti-Semitism, he has retired. Although he has shut himself up in his tiny apartment, the curator of the Catherine Museum finds him and commissions him to repair tsarist clothing for a traveling exhibition. One day while mending a vintage coat, Berman discovers a scrolled manuscript sewn into the lining. It is a l ..." |
 | | Enemy Mine / Another Orphan(1st Edition) (Tor Double Novel, No 6) by Barry B. Longyear, John Longyear Kessel Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 1989 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5963-7, ISBN: 0-8125-5963-0 |
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