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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1984
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 32 titles







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    James Patrick Kelly, the author of Planet of Whispers and the co-author, with John Kessel, of Freedom Beach has been nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo awards for his short fiction. This is a fable about a dissatisfied architect who travels "...



  • Rebelling against her fashion drug designer father, freelance journalist and troubled clone Wynne Cage covers a data-heist that places her in the rank of a thief and must confront the forces of a world with unlimited bio-technological advantages. Rep...



  • The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....



  • The 16 stories in this collection run the gamut from cyber adventure and a ghostly haunting to chemically modified romance and a time travel mission to save the world. The Hugo Award winner, “10(to the 16th) to 1,” tells the story of a boy in the...



  • This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20-year career and includes a dazzling array of work, from hard science fiction and Twilight Zone"inspired fantasies to stark futuristic horror. The grim fable “Pogrom”...



  • With colonization as the theme, this book provides a provocative look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Interwoven with themes of environmental responsibility, political struggle, and courage, it nimbly combines political and social relevance wit...



  • If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cogn...






  • Cyberpunk is dead. The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out shades. Once radical, cyberpunk is now nothing more than a brand. Time to stop flipping the channel. These sixteen extreme stories reveal a gov...



  • Providing new insights into the human psyche, this collection gathers 13 tales of science fiction that reveal both the dark and light side of progress. Combining hard technology with character-based dilemmas, each narrative shares the message that sc...



  • I share a house with Crazy Me. We get along, except when he sneaks out of the house to pretend to be me. If only it weren’t quite so true....



  • From Hugo and Nebula Award winning James Patrick Kelly comes the debut of a new digital magazine that combines fast-paced action, mind-blowing futures and cutting edge science essays. The first issue of James Patrick Kelly's Strangeways includes the...



  • Strangeways returns with two mind-bending tales of time travel! In Ten to the Sixteenth to One an odd visitor from the future challenges a young boy to save the world, against the ominous backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This novelette was aw...



  • Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly returns with a guided tour of the end of the world as we know it. Having a hard time keeping up with the sweeping changes in technology and culture? Wondering where it’s all going to...



  • Strangeways returns and Hugo, Nebula and Locus award winner James Patrick Kelly is in holiday spirits. To celebrate, he’s offering a two new stories so that all of you unwrapping Kindles, iPads, smartphones, tablets and the like will have answers t...



  • Strangeways returns with a special fantasy edition. In his Nebula nominated short story, "Don't Stop," James Patrick Kelly jogs alongside a woman who is being followed -- and has been for thirty-some years. Who is the mysterious Crispin and why can...



  • The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Award...



  • The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula A...






  • When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind -- or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or "the Rapture of the Nerds”? T...



  • A collection of five short stories, including one by Hugo and Nebula Award Winner James Patrick Kelly!In Kelly’s “Happy Ending 2.0,” we get a wife-swap involving time travel; in “Your Guide to Becoming a Computer Technician” by Todd T. Cast...



  • Luck by James Patrick Kelly Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.o...



  • James Patrick Kelly is one of science fiction's modern masters. Kelly has been awarded several of science fiction's highest honors. He won the Hugo Award for his novelette "Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) and again for his novelette "10-16 to 1" (19...



  • Where did all the men go? When aliens make all men disappear from Earth, the women left behind struggle to rebuild the shattered human culture. Years later, private investigator Fay Hardaway is hired by a grieving mother to investigate the mysterious...



  • At Coal Hill School, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone’s favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All...



  • From "Jurassic Park" to "Godzilla," dinosaurs have a rich history of exploring the idea of the creatures of the past. We love dinosaurs because they are big, we love them when they are terrifying, and we love them because they are dangerous. Thin...



  • The mission: to survey the galaxy and beyond. An endless stream of probes and starships heading out into the universe, surveying, cataloguing, assaying. Forever. And on board those ships, the intrepid explorers who give it all meaning.Grace's Family ...



  • Hugo and Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly may offer the “Promise of Space,” but he delivers so much more. The sixteen stories included in this collection demonstrate the versatility of the author as a visionary and sci...



  • Rehearsals are now underway for the Antic Tour of Interspecies Marvels at Scofflaw Circus! Dogs and cats and humans as you’ve never seen them!The circus is in town, and on the planet Boon, that’s big—potentially riotous—news. ...






  • James Patrick Kelly is known for finding the future unnervingly nearby, and he enters with his deep empathy and dry humor at the ready. A longtime favorite of SF readers is at the top of his game here. In the title story, a college acid trip becomes ...





  • An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....


Award-Winning Books by James Patrick Kelly

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2006 Nebula Award -- Novella


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Patrick Kelly has published 32 books.

James Patrick Kelly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, What It Means To Be A Car, was published in July 2023.

The first book by James Patrick Kelly, Planet of Whispers, was published in August 1984.

No. James Patrick Kelly does not write books in series.