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John Kessel

John Kessel  23 stories >>

John Kessel has written the novels Pride and Prometheus, The Moon and the Other, Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly), and the collections Meeting in Infinity, The Pure Product, and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, was published by Subterranean Press in 2022. His work has received the Nebula, the Theodore Sturgeon, the Locus, the James Tiptree Jr./Otherwise, the Ignotus, and the Shirley Jackson awards. With Jim Kelly, he has edited five anthologies of stories re-visioning c...
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Some Like It Cold

Some Like It Cold

(4843 words, 25 minutes)
Awards: Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirteenth Edition.

The moment-universes surrounding the evening of Saturday, August 4th were so thoroughly burned—tourists, biographers, conspiracy hunters, masturbators—that there was no sense arriving then.

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Buffalo

Buffalo

(7187 words, 36 minutes)
Awards: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner; Locus Poll winner 1992.

It begins to dawn on Wells that Kessel is not an example of a class, or a sociological study, but a man like himself with an intellect, opinions, dreams. He thinks of his own youth, struggling to rise in a classbound society. He leans forward across the table. “You believe in the future?”

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Buddha Nostril Bird

Buddha Nostril Bird

(7964 words, 40 minutes)

After we killed the guard, Glaucon and I ran down the corridor away from the Well. Glaucon had been seriously aged in the fight. He limped and cursed, a piece of dying meat and he knew it. I brushed my hand along the wall looking for a door.

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