James Patrick Kelly

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James Patrick Kelly (* 11. April 1951 in Mineola , New York ) is an American science fiction - writers , who published his first works in the 1970s.

Life

Kelly graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 . His first short story was published in 1975. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop twice , in 1974 and 1976. He and his friend John Kessel were involved in the cyberpunk debate throughout the 1980s . Kessel and Kelly are both considered humanists , although Kelly wrote some cyberpunk-like stories like The Prisoner of Chillon or Rat . Kelly's story Solstice was published by Bruce Sterling in his anthology Mirror Shadow.

Kelly has won several science fiction awards. He won the Hugo Award for Think Like a Dinosaur in 1995 and again in 1999 for 10 16 to 1 . In 2006 the Nebula Award for Burn followed . He won the Asimov's Reader Poll and the SF Chronicle Award with other stories . Kelly is a regular participant and teacher in various workshops, such as the Clarion and the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop . He has been with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts since 1998 and served as the Council Presidency in 2004.

He is currently on the Popular Literature Department in the Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine . He is a frequent contributor to Asimov's science fiction anthology. He also writes a column in Asimov’s called "On the Net" and consists of contributions in kind. For over 20 years he has always published a story in the June issue of Asimov’s . Meanwhile, Kelly operated together with his friend John Kessel as editor of Slipstream - Anthology Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology , the post- cyberpunk -Anthologie Rewired and the anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction . Through their work in this field, Kelly and Kessel have brought together writers from a wide variety of backgrounds within the SF, including Don DeLillo , George Saunders , Jonathan Lethem , Aimee Bender , Michael Chabon, and Steven Millhauser .

bibliography

Novels

  • Planet of Whispers , Bluejay Books , 1984
  • Freedom Beach , Tor Books , 1985 (with John Kessel)
  • Look Into the Sun , Tor Books, 1989
  • Heroines , 1990
  • Wildlife , Tor Books, 1994
  • Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories , Golden Gryphon Press , 1997
  • Strange But Not a Stranger , Golden Gryphon Press, 2002
  • Burn , Tachyon Publications , 2005 (Nebula Award Winner)

Short stories

  • "Dea Ex Machina", Galaxy , 1975
  • The Prisoner of Chillon , "The Prisoner of Chillon", Asimov's Science Fiction , 1986
  • Rat , "Rat," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1986
  • "Glass Cloud," Asimov's Science Fiction, 1987
  • "Mr. Boy," Asimov's Science Fiction, 1990
  • "The Propagation of Light in a Vacuum", Universe, 1990
  • "Pogrom", Asimov's Science Fiction, 1991
  • "Think Like a Dinosaur", Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995 (Hugo Award winner)
  • "10 ^ 16 to 1", Asimov's Science Fiction, 1999 (Hugo Award winner)
  • "Ninety Percent of Everything", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1999 (with Jonathan Lethem and John Kessel)
  • "Undone", Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001
  • "The Pyramid of Amirah," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002
  • "Bernardo's House", Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003
  • "Men Are Trouble," Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004
  • "The Edge of Nowhere," Asimov's Science Fiction, 2005
  • "The Leila Torn Show," Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006
  • "Surprise Party," Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008

As editor

  • Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology , Tachyon Publications, 2006 (with John Kessel)
  • Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology , Tachyon Publications, 2007 (with John Kessel)
  • The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories , Golden Gryphon Press, 2008
  • The Secret History of Science Fiction , Tachyon Publications, 2009
  • Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka , Tachyon Publications, 2011 (with John Kessel)
  • Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology , Tachyon Publications, 2012 (with John Kessel)

Interviews

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kelly, James Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mineola, New York