Books by James Patrick Kelly and Complete Book Reviews

James Patrick Kelly, Author . Tachyon $19.95 (178p) ISBN 978-1-892391-27-8

Hugo-winner Kelly (Think like a Dinosaur ) mixes hard-edged extrapolation with messy human issues in this thought-provoking SF novel. The inhabitants of Transcendent State, a colony of "true humans," have rejected advanced technology for...

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Look Into the Sun

James Patrick Kelly, Author Tor Books $17.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-312-93148-3

In Kelly's 1987 novella The Glass Cloud , architect Phillip Wing saw his grand vision of an immense floating cloud achieved in such a way that the project, and, he felt, much of his world, was co-opted by the aliens called messengers. This novel...

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Wildlife

James Patrick Kelly, Author Tor Books $21.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-312-85578-9

Surely SF's loudest tempest in a teapot in the past 25 years was the so-called cyberpunk vs. humanist debate. Attention was paid when Bruce Sterling, editing the definitive cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades , included ``Solstice'' by humanist writer...

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STRANGE BUT NOT A STRANGER

James Patrick Kelly, Author, Connie Willis, Foreword by . Golden Gryphon $25.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-930846-12-8

A meticulous craftsman in the demanding short-story form, as well as a tactful scapel-wielding verteran of many a writers' workshop, Hugo–winner Kelly (Wildlife) delivers 15 tight, deceptively simple tales with complex, often delayed...

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""Think Like a Dinosaur"" and Other Stories

James Patrick Kelly, Author, John Kessel, Foreword by Golden Gryphon Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-9655901-9-8

Many SF readers will be familiar with Kelly's work from his novel Wildfire (1994), but more will know him from the frequent appearance of his short stories in genre magazines. Here are 14 of those tales. Kelly puts his best foot forward with the...

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The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories

James Patrick Kelly, Author, Bob Eggleton, Foreword by . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-1-930846-51-7

Thirteen stories, all originally published between 2002 and 2007, examine the struggle for human survival and identity in strange places. In the title story, humans transmitted across space end up in a quasi-reality that may permit transcendence....

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King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats

James Patrick Kelly. Subterranean, $40 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59606-934-3

Genetically modified cats and dogs stage an uprising in this disappointing novella from Kelly (The Promise of Space). The isolationist colony on the far-flung planet of Boon is in turmoil. The human ruling class squabbles among themselves to cling...

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