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James Patrick Kelly

(b.1951)

James Patrick Kelly (please, call him Jim) has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His short novel Burn won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Societys Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette Think Like A Dinosaur and in 2000, for his novelette, Ten to the Sixteenth to One. His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. He produces two podcasts: James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod on Audible and the Free Reads Podcast (Yes, its free). His most recent publishing venture is the ezine James Patrick Kellys Strangeways

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Messenger
1. Planet of Whispers (1984)
2. Look into the Sun (1989)

Novels

   Freedom Beach (1985) (with John Kessel)
   Wildlife (1994)
   Solstice (1999)
   Ninety Percent of Everything (2001) (with John Kessel and Jonathan Lethem)
   Burn (2005)

Collections

   Heroines (1990)
   Think Like a Dinosaur (1990)
   Strange But Not a Stranger (2002)
   Wreck of the Godspeed (2008)
   The Promise of Space and Other Stories (2018)
   The First Law of Thermodynamics (2021)

Novellas

   Itsy Bitsy Spider (1997)
   Bernardo's House (2014)
   Faith (2016)
   Luck (2016)
   Men Are Trouble (2016)
   Surprise Party (2016)
   Grace's Family (2018)
   King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats (2020)

Series contributed to

Nebula Awards Showcase (with John Kessel)
13. Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012)

Anthologies edited

   Feeling Very Strange (2006) (with John Kessel)
   Rewired (2007) (with John Kessel)
   The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009) (with John Kessel)
   Digital Rapture (2012) (with John Kessel)

Anthologies containing stories by James Patrick Kelly

Short stories

	Death Therapy
	In Memory of (1982)
	Saint Theresa of the Aliens (1984)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Solstice [short story] (1985)
	The Prisoner of Chillon (1986)
	Rat (1986)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Home Front (1988)
	Mr Boy (1990)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Standing in Line with Mr Jimmy (1991)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Chemistry (1993)
	Big Guy (1994)
	Grandfather Christmas (1994) (with Robert Frazier)
	Think Like a Dinosaur [short story] (1995)		Nebula Awards (nominee) Hugo
	Breakaway, Backdown (1996)
	Lovestory (1998)
	1016 to 1 (1999)		Hugo (nominee)
	Ninety Percent of Everything [short story] (1999) (with John Kessel and Jonathan Lethem)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Ten 16 to 1 (1999)

Awards

	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1985) : Saint Theresa of the Aliens
	Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1987) : Rat
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1987) : Rat
	Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1991) : Mr Boy
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1992) : Standing in Line with Mr Jimmy
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1996) : Think Like a Dinosaur [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1996) : Think Like a Dinosaur [short story]
	Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1998) : Itsy Bitsy Spider
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1998) : Itsy Bitsy Spider
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (2000) : 1016 to 1
	Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (2001) : Ninety Percent of Everything [short story]

James Patrick Kelly recommends

Standard Candles (1996)
Jack McDevitt
"You hold in your hand some of the best work of one of our best writers."

Iron Sunrise (2004)
(Singularity Sky, book 2)
Charles Stross
"Charles Stross owns the cutting edge of science fiction."

No Return (2013)
(Jeroun, book 1)
Zachary Jernigan
"Be careful picking this one up, because once you join with the adventurers in this strange and stunning debut novel, there will be no going back to the familiar precincts of heroic fantasy. Zachary Jernigan starts at the very edge of the map and plunges deep into uncharted territory. Mages in space, do-it-yourself gods, merciless killers in love and a mechanical warrior with a heart of bronze await your reading pleasure. For thinking readers who like swashbuckling with an edge, NO RETURN delivers."

Semiosis (2018)
(Semiosis Duology, book 1)
Sue Burke
"A first contact novel like none you've ever read. . . . The kind of story for which science fiction was invented."

The Chaos Function (2019)
Jack Skillingstead
"Deftly marrying genres, Jack Skillingstead has given us a science fiction thriller for the ages. Journalist Olivia Nikitas discovers an centuries-old conspiracy with the means to alter the very fabric of time. Dodging from war-ravaged Syria across a suddenly-apocalyptic United States, she must fight to survive in a changeable world where she alone knows what's real. With a plot as mind-bending as pharmaceutical-quality Phillip K. Dick, The Chaos Function is an astonishment from page one to its explosive climax."

The Light Years (2020)
R W W Greene
"The Light Years is one of best novels about the psychological challenges of relativity I’ve ever read. This is what science fiction was invented for!"

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