James Patrick Kelly

James Patrick Kelly (born April 11, 1951) is an American science fiction author who has won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.

Biography

Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, with a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating from college, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. He attended the Clarion Workshop twice, once in 1974 and again in 1976.

Throughout the 1980s, he and his friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly also wrote several cyberpunk-like stories, such as "The Prisoner of Chillon" (1985) and "Rat" (1986). His story "Solstice" (1985) was published in Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology.

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 10¹⁶ to 1 (1999). Most recently, his 2005 novella, Burn, won the 2006 Nebula Award. Other stories have won the Asimov's Reader Poll and the SF Chronicle Award. He is frequently on the final ballot for the Nebula Award, the Locus Poll Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Template:Asof he is retired from the faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. He frequently teaches and participates in science fiction workshops, such as Clarion and the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop. He has served on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts since 1998 and chaired the council in 2004.

He is a frequent contributor to Asimov's Science Fiction and for the past several years has contributed a non-fiction column to Asimov's, "On the Net." He has had a story in the June issue of Asimov's for the past twenty years. In addition to his writing, Kelly has recently turned his hand to editing (with John Kessel), with several reprint anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Through these anthologies, Kelly and Kessel have brought together a wide spectrum of both traditional genre authors and authors who are considered to be more mainstream, including Don DeLillo, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon and Steven Millhauser.

Bibliography

Novels

Mariska Volochkova series

• Going Deep (2009)
• Plus or Minus (2010)
• Tourists (2011)
• Mother Go (Audible Studios, 2017)

Messengers Chronicles

Short fiction

Collections

• Heroines (1990)
• Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, 1997)
• Strange But Not a Stranger (Golden Gryphon Press, 2002)
• The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, 2008)
• Ninety Percent of Everything (2011) (with John Kessel and Jonathan Lethem)
• Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly (2016)
• The Promise of Space and Other Stories (2018)
• The First Law of Thermodynamics (2021)

Anthologies (edited)

• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Tachyon Publications, 2006) (co-edited with John Kessel)
• Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (Tachyon Publications, 2007) (co-edited with John Kessel)
• The Secret History of Science Fiction (Tachyon Publications, 2009) (co-edited with John Kessel)
• Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka (Tachyon Publications, 2011) (co-edited with John Kessel)
• Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology (Tachyon Publications, 2012) (co-edited with John Kessel)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (Pyr, 2012) (co-edited with John Kessel)

Stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Dea ex machina	1975
The prisoner of Chillon	1986
Rat	1986
Glass cloud	1987
Mr. Boy	1990			Novella
Choosing sides	2006			Chapter 11 of a 'round-robin' novel. See ISFDB entry for details.
Declaration	2014
Someday	2014
Uncanny	2014

• "The Propagation of Light in a Vacuum" (Universe 1, 1990)
• "Pogrom" (Asimov's, Jan 1991)
• "Think Like a Dinosaur" (Asimov's, June 1995) (Hugo Award winner)
• "10^16 to 1" (Asimov's, June 1999) (Hugo Award winner)
• "Ninety Percent of Everything" (with Jonathan Lethem and John Kessel) (F&SF, Sep 1999)
• "Undone" (Asimov's, June 2001)
• "The Pyramid of Amirah" (F&SF, March 2002)
• "Barry Westphall Crashes the Singularity" (infinitematrix.net, 2002)
• "Bernardo's House" (Asimov's, June 2003)
• "Men Are Trouble" (Asimov's, June 2004)
• "The Best Christmas Ever" (scifi.com, 2004) (Hugo Award nominee) Audio recordings are available by Walter O'Hara and Jim Kelly.
• "The Edge of Nowhere" (Asimov's, June 2005)
• "Why School Buses Are Yellow" (infinitematrix.net, 2005)
• "The Leila Torn Show" (Asimov's, June 2006)
• "Surprise Party" (Asimov's, June 2008)
• "The Promise of Space" (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2013)

Interviews

• An Interview with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel conducted by John Joseph Adams Template:Webarchive
• James Patrick Kelly - Audio Interview
• SciFi.com Interview Template:Webarchive
• AISFP 55 - James Patrick Kelly Interviewed by Matthew Wayne Selznick - Audio Interview
• A Rain Taxi Interview with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel conducted by Matthew Cheney

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Notes

External links

• James Patrick Kelly Homepage
• James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod
• Freereads - JPK blog/podcast site
• Template:Trim James Patrick Kelly at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• IT Conversations - James Patrick Kelly
• James Patrick Kelly Audiobooks