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Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) This John Kessel (ends in 1 L, no initial) writes and edits science fiction. He lives and teaches in North Carolina.

This is NOT the historian John L. Kessell (ends in LL, one initial), who writes about the presence of Spain in the American southwest.

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Séries

Obras por John Kessel

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007) — Introdução; Editor — 385 exemplares
Good News from Outer Space (1989) 264 exemplares
Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997) 197 exemplares
The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009) — Editor — 196 exemplares
The Moon and the Other (2017) 160 exemplares
Pride and Prometheus (2018) 77 exemplares
Freedom Beach (1985) 69 exemplares
Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) — Editor — 67 exemplares
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (1995) — Editor, Contributor — 65 exemplares
The Pure Product (1997) 63 exemplares
Pride and Prometheus {novelette} (2018) 36 exemplares
Stories For Men 15 exemplares
Another Orphan 12 exemplares
The Last American 11 exemplares
Ninety Percent of Everything (2001) 10 exemplares
The Juniper Tree 9 exemplares
The Collected Kessel (2012) 8 exemplares
Buffalo {short story} 8 exemplares
Invaders [short fiction] (1990) 8 exemplares
It's All True 7 exemplares
The Red Phone 6 exemplares
A Clean Escape (1985) 5 exemplares
The Invisible Empire 5 exemplares
Powerless 5 exemplares
Downtown 5 exemplares
American apocalypse (2004) 5 exemplares
The Motorman's Coat 4 exemplares
The Snake Girl 4 exemplares
Clean 3 exemplares
Friend 3 exemplares
The Franchise 3 exemplares
The Closet 3 exemplares
Buddha Nostril Bird 3 exemplares
Lune et l'autre (2008) 2 exemplares
The Family Vacation 2 exemplares
The Moral Bullet (1991) 2 exemplares
Man 2 exemplares
Faustfeathers 2 exemplares
Iteration 2 exemplares
Crosswhen No. 8 1 exemplar
Credibility 1 exemplar
Animals 1 exemplar
The Silver Man 1 exemplar
The Lecturer 1 exemplar
Crosswhen no. 1 1 exemplar
Other Stories 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004) — Contribuidor — 533 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Contribuidor — 491 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 476 exemplares
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) — Contribuidor — 450 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 434 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Contribuidor — 418 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contribuidor — 416 exemplares
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (2005) — Contribuidor — 380 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 367 exemplares
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2006) — Editor — 309 exemplares
Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Contribuidor — 285 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Contribuidor — 282 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Contribuidor — 266 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Contribuidor — 222 exemplares
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Contribuidor — 216 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1991) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Contribuidor — 197 exemplares
Year's Best SF 13 (2008) — Contribuidor — 191 exemplares
Strange Dreams (1993) — Compositor — 186 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (2011) — Contribuidor — 148 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Think Like a Dinosaur: And Other Stories (1982) — Prefácio, algumas edições143 exemplares
Future on Ice (1998) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) — Contribuidor — 134 exemplares
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Contribuidor — 127 exemplares
Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars (2012) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (2010) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Nebula Awards Eighteen (1983) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000) — Posfácio, algumas edições84 exemplares
Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (1996) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Enemy Mine/Another Orphan (1989) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
In the Field of Fire (1987) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Nebula Awards 23 (1989) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
Attack of the Jazz Giants: and Other Stories (2005) — Posfácio — 58 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3 (2010) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (2004) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9 (1983) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Time Travelers (1989) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1985) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (2010) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Under South American Skies (1993) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction (2019) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Savage Humanists (2008) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2020 Edition (2020) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 10 (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Clarkesworld: Issue 124 (January 2017) (2017) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Starry messenger: The best of Galileo (1976) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Clarkesworld: Issue 087 (December 2013) (2013) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 [June 2009] (1909) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction September 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Geek Theater (2014) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction July 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction November 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 (2010) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction July 1978 (1978) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Supernovæ (1993) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Millemondi Inverno 1996 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Omni Magazine December 1993 (1993) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Kessel, John Joseph Vincent
Data de nascimento
1950-09-24
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Buffalo, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Buffalo, New York, USA
Educação
University of Kansas (PhD | English | 1981)
Ocupações
science fiction and fantasy writer
Relações
Gunn, James (teacher)
Fowler, Therese Anne (wife)
Organizações
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Nota de desambiguação
This John Kessel (ends in 1 L, no initial) writes and edits science fiction. He lives and teaches in North Carolina.

This is NOT the historian John L. Kessell (ends in LL, one initial), who writes about the presence of Spain in the American southwest.

Membros

Críticas

an interesting approach to time travel.
Multiple universes, without the usual concern for altering the time line
 
Assinalado
cspiwak | 4 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
A pair of time-traveling con-artists tangle with a paleontologist smuggling an infant dinosaur into the 22nd century. Hijinks ensue.

Corrupting Dr. Nice is a postmodern mash-up of 1930s screwball comedies and science fiction: Preston Sturges meets H. G. Wells. Some of the time paradoxes do not bear close examination, and the novel's frenetic speed does not always allow logic to impede its constant lunge forward, but this, too, is an homage to the source material. (The Lady Eve and Bringing Up Baby will never win any awards for their internal coherence, but nobody cares.)… (mais)
 
Assinalado
proustbot | 4 outras críticas | Jun 19, 2023 |
A collection of award-winning short stories that test the bounds of sceince fiction. Some great stories by authors including Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Gene Wolfe, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Leguin, and others.
 
Assinalado
jwhenderson | 5 outras críticas | May 17, 2023 |

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Paul Di Filippo Contributor
Connie Willis Contributor
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Mary Rosenblum Contributor
David Marusek Contributor
Michael Swanwick Contributor
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George Saunders Contributor
Molly Gloss Contributor
Michael Chabon Contributor
Don DeLillo Contributor
Kate Wilhelm Contributor
Ursula K. Le Guin Contributor
Margaret Atwood Contributor
Lucius Shepard Contributor
Gene Wolfe Contributor
Steven Millhauser Contributor
Thomas M. Disch Contributor
Carol Emshwiller Contributor
Rachel Swirsky Contributor
Shweta Narayan Contributor
Samantha Henderson Contributor
Aliette de Bodard Contributor
James Jr. Tiptree Contributor
Ann K. Schwader Contributor
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Terry Pratchett Contributor
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Adam-Troy Castro Contributor
Harlan Ellison Contributor
Kij Johnson Contributor
Geoff Landis Contributor
Chris Barzak Contributor
Kendall Evans Contributor
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Nancy Kress Contributor
Lewis Shiner Contributor
Robert Frazier Contributor
Alexander Jablokov Contributor
Michael Blumlein Contributor
Damon Knight Contributor
Franz Kafka Contributor
Philip Roth Contributor
Jorge Luis Borges Contributor
J. G. Ballard Contributor
Robert Crumb Contributor
Rudy Rucker Contributor
Terry Bisson Contributor
Jeffrey Ford Contributor
David Mairowitz Contributor
Eileen Gunn Contributor
Tamar Yellin Contributor
Theodora Goss Contributor
Amanda Karr Narrator
Patty Nason Cover artist
Chris Moore Cover artist
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Estatísticas

Obras
74
Also by
101
Membros
2,146
Popularidade
#11,990
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
74
ISBN
55
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
1

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