John Kessel

• Feb-1989
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1989
• / Science Fiction
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As the calendar counts down the months to the year 2000, millennial fever takes hold in the United States. George Eberhart, reporter for the biggest tabloid in the world, is on the track of what might be the story of the century--he has evidence that...

• Aug-1992
• / Fantasy
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• Aug-1992
• / Fantasy
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• 1996
• / Fantasy
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In 1994, some of the brightest stars of science fiction gathered for the Sycamore Hill workshop, putting their stories in the forge of their colleagues' collective critical wisdom. The result is Intersections, an original anthology on the cutting edg...

• Feb-1997
• / Fantasy
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Take a pair of time-hopping con artists looking for their next mark. Add a naive and increadibly rich young scientist waiting to be fleeced. Stir together in the volatile political atmosphere of Roman-occupied Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifix...

• Dec-1997
• / General Fiction
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An outstanding collection of nineteen works includes two poems, an award-winning play, and sixteen short stories--including the never-before published "Gulliver at Home"--by one of science fiction's most acclaimed authors and the winner of the Nebula...

• Apr-2008
• / Fantasy
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Stories intersecting imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Includes Kessel's modern classic story sequence about life on the moon....

• Nov-2011
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The tourist shops of Prague sell dozens of items commemorating Franz Kafka. You can drink a latte in the Café Kafka, add sugar to it from a packet with Kafka’s face on it, and then light your cigarette from a box of Kafka matches. Franz Kafka died...

• Apr-2017
• / Dystopian
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John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war. In the middle of the twe...

• Feb-2018
• / Gothic
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE meets FRANKENSTEIN as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic Victor Frankenstein and befriends his monstrous Creature in this clever fusion of two popular classics. Threatened with destruction unless he fashions a wife for his Cre...

• Nov-2020
• / Science Fiction
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The woman had an appointment with Death--unless the mysterious stranger from another time could intervene. But for what sinister purpose?...

• Jul-2022
• / Science Fiction
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Completely strange and idiosyncratic. His stories are singular experiences... They burst out of their texts with news that is strange, mysterious, beyond reason or parsing—beyond Kessel himself, it seems, who must have been as startled ...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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Mixing satire, farce, and dystopia, the stories in John Kessel's The Presidential Papers deconstruct the character and politics of five imagined presidents, some of whom bear striking resemblance to individuals who have occupied the Oval Office over ...