John Kessel, Author Small Beer Press $24 (315p) ISBN 978-1-931520-51-5
This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade from Nebula winner Kessel (Good News from Outer Space), plays on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his-luck man thrown into extraordinary circumstances. \x93The Juniper Tree,\x94 the...
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John Kessel, Author Tor Books $18.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-312-93178-0
Kessel's ( Freedom Beach ) latest novel, a black comedy of pre-millenial hysteria set a decade in the future, is an outstandingly original work. George Eberhart, recently resuscitated from a ``successful'' suicide attempt by the newly perfected Han...
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John Kessel, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86116-2
In the mid-21st century, time travel is as common as air travel is today, and so is the wholesale looting of the past for people and artifacts. The eponymous Owen Vannice, a billionaire paleontologist trying to smuggle a dinosaur from the Cretaceous
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John Kessel, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86117-9
Among the 16 stories--plus two poems and a play--that Kessel (Corrupting Dr. Nice) includes in this volume are hardboiled detective yarns (albeit with time machines), literary satires and inventive spinoffs (of Swift, Marlowe and Melville), intense...
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John Kessel. Saga, $27.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-481-48144-1
Kessel’s latest is thoughtful, slow-churning social science fiction mashing together what might be seen at first as near-utopias to reveal the underbellies and clashes of dissatisfaction and disenfranchisement, where the haves enjoy almost...
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John Kessel. Saga, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8147-2
Kessel (The Moon and the Other) makes an ambitious attempt to cross Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but this expansion of his Nebula-winning 2008 novelette falls short. After the marriages of the older Bennet...
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John Kessel, Author, J. K. Potter, Illustrator Arkham House Publishers $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-87054-164-3
Kessel is hardly prolific--since 1980 he has produced perhaps two dozen short stories, written one novel ( Good News from Outer Space ) and coauthored another ( Freedom Beach , with James Patrick Kelly)--but his work always has a powerful emotional...
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Edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Pyr, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61614-619-1
From the cover by Nebula-winning artist Michael Whelan to the very last page, this remarkable anthology is filled with the very best of the SF and fantasy published in 2010. In addition to republishing or excerpting many winners and a few finalists...
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John Kessel. Subterranean, $45 (584p) ISBN 978-1-64524-058-7
Speculative shorts don’t come much better than the 20 featured in this wide-ranging collection from Nebula Award winner Kessel (Another Orphan). It takes a brilliant author to pull off a Jane Austen–Mary Shelley mash-up, but Kessel does so with...
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