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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Kelly, James Patrick </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=kelly_james_patrick'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=kelly_james_patrick'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=kelly_james_patrick'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kelly_james_patrick&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kelly_james_patrick'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=kelly_james_patrick');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=KesselKelly-SecretHist.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/KesselKelly-SecretHist.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1951-    ) US author who began to publish after attending the <a href="/entry/clarion_science_fiction_writers_workshop">Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop</a> in 1974. With "Dea Ex Machina" in <a href="/entry/galaxy">Galaxy</a> for April 1975 (as by James Kelly), he began very quickly to establish himself as an author whose work contained, within a sometimes sober demeanour, considerable pyrotechnical charge. In the selfconscious 1980s controversy between <a href="/entry/cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a> and "Humanist" modes of sf discourse, he was located with the latter, but like most "Humanists" he has disavowed the distinction – and indeed published a story, "Solstice" (June 1985 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), in Bruce <a href="/entry/sterling_bruce">Sterling</a>'s <i>Mirrorshades</i> (anth <b>1986</b>).</p> <p>Kelly achieved prominence through <i>Freedom Beach</i> (fixup <b>1985</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> – an author with whom he has also collaborated on separate stories and on anthologies (see below). In the book several characters find themselves in an interzone in which "reality" and dreamwork wed surreally (see <a href="/entry/perception">Perception</a>), and must make sense of their surroundings. The control they exercise can be seen as allegorical of the creative act.</p> <p>Of greater interest are Kelly's solo novels, <i>Planet of Whispers</i> (<b>1984</b>) and <i>Look into the Sun</i> (<b>1989</b>), which start the open-ended (or simply incomplete) <b>Messengers Chronicles</b>. Whatever message is carried by the various species who link the Galaxy into a <a href="/entry/communications">Communications</a> network has not been revealed in the volumes published so far. The first tale, set on the planet Aseneshesh, explores in voluminous detail the native race of near-<a href="/entry/immortality">Immortal</a> bearlike beings whose mental workings are derived from the attractive hypotheses developed by Julian Jaynes (1920-1997) in <i>The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind</i> (<b>1976</b>). In Jaynes's book, and in Kelly's novel, pre-conscious sentients – i.e. preliterate humans, including the <a href="/entry/homer">Homer</a> responsible for the <i>Iliad</i> – "hear" right-brain "whispers" which they understand to be the voices of the gods, and in this fashion hallucinate normative diktats which shape their culture. No humans appear in the novel. In the second volume, set partly on a depleted Earth, a young architect is recruited by Messengers to travel to Aseneshesh, being engineered en route into the semblance of an Asenesheshian, complete with a <a href="/entry/computers">Computer</a>-implant that substitutes for the right-brain voice of God. Aseneshesh is vividly depicted in the two books, in a <a href="/entry/planetary_romance">Planetary-Romance</a> style reminiscent at times of Jack <a href="/entry/vance_jack">Vance</a>; but the plotting has a slow rigour typical of all Kelly's work, an incremental power which transcends the <a href="/entry/fixup">Fixup</a> structure of the later <i>Wildlife</i> (June 1990 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a> as "Mr. Boy"; fixup <b>1994</b>), a complex and – at points – singularly cruel analysis of the relationship between a child artificially re-engineered each time he nears puberty and his extraordinary mother.</p> <p>Since the mid-1990s, though, Kelly's greatest prominence has been as an author at shorter lengths. He won <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> Awards for "Think Like a Dinosaur" (June 1995 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) and "10<sup>16</sup> to 1" (June 1999 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), and a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> for his novella <i>Burn</i> (<b>2005</b>). These three works are contained, respectively, in the first three of Kelly's four major collections: <i>Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>1997</b>), <i>Strange but not a Stranger</i> (coll <b>2001</b>), <i>The Wreck of the Godspeed</i> (coll <b>2008</b>) and <i>The Promise of Space and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>2018</b>). "Think Like a Dinosaur" has in particular elicited comment, being an update and revision of the moral dilemma at the heart of "The Cold Equations" (August 1954 <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding</a>) by Tom <a href="/entry/godwin_tom">Godwin</a>. Similarly, "Undone" (June 2001 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) is a joyously kinetic tribute to the pyrotechnic innovations of Alfred <a href="/entry/bester_alfred">Bester</a>. <i>Burn</i> more complexly marries ideas of <a href="/entry/ecology">Ecology</a>, as derived from Henry David Thoreau, and a humane portrait of a protagonist recovering from trauma. Two of the novellas in <i>The Wreck of the Godspeed</i> – the title story (in <i>Between Worlds</i>, anth <b>2004</b>, ed Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a>) and "Dividing the Sustain" (in <i>The New Space Opera</i>, anth <b>2007</b>, ed Gardner <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a> and Jonathan <a href="/entry/strahan_jonathan">Strahan</a>) – are set in <a href="/entry/spaceships">Spaceships</a> whose <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a> captains both manifest themselves as <a href="/entry/avatars">Avatars</a>, underlining the baroque complexity of Kelly's ironized but romantic take on humanity's possible future in the galaxy. His stories only rarely breach the edges of <a href="/entry/genre_sf">Genre SF</a> forms, but almost without exception they find new ways of enriching those forms, a strong example of this being "The Biggest" (January 2012 <i>Worldbuilder</i>), whose <a href="/entry/superheroes">Superhero</a> protagonist, fatally immured in 1931 <a href="/entry/new_york">New York</a>, encounters the corpse of <a href="/entry/king_kong">King Kong</a> and turns himself to stone, saving the George Washington Bridge from another superhero whose powers have gone awry. At a time when short sf has been seen as a declining mode – certainly in narrowly commercial terms – he has shown consistent loyalty to it: as of 2010, he had contributed a piece to the June edition of <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a> for twenty-six consecutive years.</p> <p>Again with Kessel, Kelly has edited a series of anthologies beginning with <i>Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology</i> (anth <b>2006</b>), each surveying with balance and care a potentially disputed territory within the field. He has also been prolific as a teacher, and helped to steer the <a href="/entry/clarion_science_fiction_writers_workshop">Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop</a> through the difficulties caused by the withdrawal of its support from Michigan State University. In this as in his writing, he is a central part of the community of sf. [JC/GS]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/children_in_sf">Children in SF</a>; <a href="/entry/gods_and_demons">Gods and Demons</a>; <a href="/entry/mothership_zeta">Mothership Zeta</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">James Patrick Kelly</h3> <p><b>born</b> Mineola, New York: 11 April 1951</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kelly_james_patrick&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kelly_james_patrick'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Messenger Chronicles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Planet+of+Whispers&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Planet of Whispers</a></em> (New York: Bluejay, <b>1984</b>) [<b>Messenger Chronicles</b>: hb/Victoria <a href="/entry/poyser_victoria">Poyser</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Look+Into+The+Sun&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Look Into The Sun</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1989</b>) [<b>Messenger Chronicles</b>: hb/Luis <a href="/entry/royo_luis">Royo</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Freedom+Beach&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Freedom Beach</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1985</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [fixup: hb/Thomas <a href="/entry/kidd_tom">Kidd</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Wildlife&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Wildlife</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1994</b>) [hb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Burn&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Burn</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2005</b>) [novella: hb/John <a href="/entry/picacio_john">Picacio</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=King+of+the+Dogs+Queen+of+the+Cats&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2020</b>) [novella: hb/Jon Foster]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Heroines&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Heroines</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse, <b>1990</b>) [coll: in the publisher's <b>Author's Choice Monthly</b> series: hb/George <a href="/entry/barr_george">Barr</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Think+Like+a+Dinosaur+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories</a></em> (Collinsville, Illinois: Golden Gryphon, <b>1997</b>) [coll: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Strange+but+Not+a+Stranger&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Strange but Not a Stranger</a></em> (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon, <b>2001</b>) [coll: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Bernardo+House&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Bernardo's House</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2004</b>) [story: ebook: first appeared in June 2003 in <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Omega+Egg+Part+11+of+17+Choosing+Sides&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Omega Egg (Part 11 of 17): Choosing Sides</a></em> (place not given: Fictionwise, <b>2006</b>) [ebook: chapter of multi-author <a href="/entry/round_robin">Round-Robin</a> novel: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Wreck+of+the+Godspeed&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Wreck of the Godspeed</a></em> (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon, <b>2008</b>) [coll: hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Crazy+Me&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Crazy Me</a></em> (New York: Tor.com, <b>2011</b>) [story: ebook: na/Jonathan Bartlett]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ninety+Percent+of+Everything&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ninety Percent of Everything</a></em> (place not given: James Patrick Kelly, <b>2011</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> and Jonathan <a href="/entry/lethem_jonathan">Lethem</a> [coll: ebook: two long stories in triple collaboration: na/Vincent <a href="/entry/di_fate_vincent">Di Fate</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Promise+of+Space+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Promise of Space and Other Stories</a></em> (Gaithersburg, Maryland: Prime Books, <b>2018</b>) [coll: pb/Piotr Foksowicz]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Masters+of+Science+Fiction+James+Patrick+Kelly&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly</a></em> (Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, <b>2016</b>) [coll: hb/Jim Keegan, Ruth Keegan]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Promise+of+Space+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Promise of Space and Other Stories</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, <b>2008</b>) [coll: pb/Piotr Foksowicz]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+First+Law+of+Thermodynamics+Plus++&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The First Law of Thermodynamics, Plus ...</a></em> (Oakland, California: PM Press, <b>2021</b>) [coll: containing fiction and nonfiction: in the publisher's <b>Outspoken Authors</b> series: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Writers+Workshops&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Writers' Workshops</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, <b>1991</b>) [nonfiction: chap: first appeared Winter 1987 <em>Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America</em>: in the publisher's <b>Pulphouse Writer's Chapbook</b> series: pb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Feeling+Very+Strange+The+Slipstream+Anthology&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2006</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: pb/Isabelle Rozenbaum]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rewired+The+Post-Cyberpunk+Anthology&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2007</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: pb/Patty Nason]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Secret+History+of+Science+Fiction&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Secret History of Science Fiction</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2009</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nebula+Awards+Showcase+2012&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nebula Awards Showcase 2012</a></em> (Amherst, New York: Pyr, <b>2012</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/nebula_anthologies">Nebula Anthologies</a>: pb/Michael <a href="/entry/whelan_michael">Whelan</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Kafkaesque+Stories+Inspired+by+Franz+Kafka&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2011</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: Franz <a href="/entry/kafka_franz">Kafka</a>: pb/Josh Beatman]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Digital+Rapture+The+Singularity+Anthology&field-author=Kelly+James+Patrick" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2012</b>) with John <a href="/entry/kessel_john">Kessel</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/singularity">Singularity</a>: pb/Josh Beatman]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> 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