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James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) is an American science fiction writer. After graduating from Notre Dame, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. Hroughout the 1980s, he and friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly was published in Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. E is currently on the Popular Fiction faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.

James Patrick Kelly (b. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly was published in Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. After graduating from Notre Dame, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. 1951) is an American science fiction writer. Throughout the 1980s, he and friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate.

What you're holding in your hands is part of a science fiction revolution James Patrick Kelly is much more than an award-winning author e's an SF visionary.

His writing has redefined the cyberpunk genre, with a uniquely edgy, outré style his book is a literal treasure trove of Kelly's most memorable stories and novellas Here you'll see classic science fiction blended with New Age technology, and an unparalleled understanding of human psychology. “Think Like a Dinosaur” takes us on a troubling, sometimes terrifying interstellar journey, as we track a young woman's transformation into an alien life-form, with some unexpected results. “The Last Judgment” is a startlingly original meld of noir and cyberpunk, as a tough private eye gets embroiled in a world dominated by a race of robots.

Elly also adds some murderous extra-terrestrials to the mix In “Ten To The Sixteenth To One,” it's 1962, and a young science fiction fan is shoring up his mundane world with comic books and pulp magazines, until he's visited by a creature that will alter the fate of the human race. “Daemon” is a piece of first-person fiction, in which Kelly himself is the lead character, attending a book signing and confronted by a fan from Hell n “Going Deep,” Kelly explores teen-age rebellion in outer space, with a compelling, complex, and cloned heroine whose talent for mind-melds makes texting look antiquated. “Mr.

Boy” is Peter Cage, who's been surgically altered to remain forever young ver wish you were twelve years old again? Eternal youth isn't all it's cracked up to be nplug your mobile devices and plug into James Patrick Kelly's vision of our future Your head will never be the same again ames Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards; his fiction has been translated into twenty-two languages He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. edition information.

Edition Details

• Over 700 pages of James Patrick Kelly’s best science fiction.
• Introduction by Robert Reed.
• Afterword by John Pelan.
• Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
• Signed by James Patrick Kelly, Robert Reed, John Pelan and cover artists Jim & Ruth Keegan.
• Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket, ribbon marker, head and tail bands.

External Links

• Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly. Centipede Press page for Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly
• James Patrick Kelly (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for James Patrick Kelly