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Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=kessel_john'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=kessel_john'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=kessel_john'" 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=kessel_john&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kessel_john'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=kessel_john');"> <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-Kafkaesque.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/KesselKelly-Kafkaesque.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1950-    ) US academic and author who began publishing sf with "The Silver Man" for <a href="/entry/galileo">Galileo</a> in May 1978, and whose short fiction rapidly established him as an author of cunningly pastiche-heavy, erudite stories. His two best known early tales – both assembled with other work in <i>Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations</i> (coll <b>1992</b>) – are probably "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" (September 1981 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>) and <i>Another Orphan</i> (September 1982 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>; <b>1989</b> chap dos), which won a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>; in both, an urgent extremism of metaphor tends to enforce allegorical readings. Kessel's better stories, as also collected in <i>The Pure Product</i> (coll <b>1997</b>) and <i>The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>2008</b>), tend to subject generic materials and the furniture of popular culture to scathing moral examination. For instance, "The Big Dream" (April 1984 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) has a detective out of Raymond Chandler spy on Chandler's infidelities and lies. The four stories collected as "A Lunar Quartet" in <i>The Baum Plan for Financial Independence</i> depict a matriarchal lunar colony and mark a sustained engagement with issues of <a href="/entry/gender">Gender</a>; of them, "Stories for Men" (October/November 2002 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>) won a <a href="/entry/tiptree_james_jr">Tiptree</a> Award. Two summatory collections are <i>The Collected Kessel</i> (coll <b>2012</b> ebook) and <i>The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel</i> (coll <b>2022</b>); the latter selection includes some recent stories, among them the title novella, "The Dark Ride" (January/February 2021 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>).</p> <p>Kessel's extremism with the materials of genre sf also dominates much of his first novel, <i>Freedom Beach</i> (<b>1985</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a>, a tale whose characters find themselves occupying allegorical venues construed according to the styles of various authors, from Aristophanes to Groucho Marx. Of greater interest is his first solo novel, <i>Good News From Outer Space</i> (fixup <b>1989</b>), a sustained but dizzying look at the human animal as the millennium approaches – <a href="/entry/identity">Identity</a> crises eat into men and women, the dead are medically reawoken, and dreams of redeeming <a href="/entry/aliens">Aliens</a> raddle the large cast. There are echoes of Philip K <a href="/entry/dick_philip_k">Dick</a>, but a gonzo Dick, and of Barry N <a href="/entry/malzberg_barry_n">Malzberg</a>'s allegorized urban desolation (and black wit) – but Kessel's desolation, very frighteningly and very movingly, is populous with human faces, however fractured. After such a formidable work, <i>Corrupting Dr Nice</i> (<b>1997</b>) may seem a slighter endeavour, attempting to marry <a href="/entry/time_travel">Time Travel</a> with the gestures of the screwball comedy. But it too becomes an examination of the "givens" of history and what it might cost to believe in them. <i>The Moon and the Other</i> (<b>2017</b>), which shares some backstory with "Stories for Men" (2002) [see above], is an exceedingly ambitious and complexly told multi-strand tale set primarily on the colonized <a href="/entry/moon">Moon</a> about a century hence, focusing on two constructed societies, each simultaneously exhibiting characteristics of the <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopia</a> and the <a href="/entry/dystopias">Dystopia</a>. Persepolis, created by Iranians, is secular and patriarchal, with infractions, financial and other, treated savagely, in line with several other lunar colonies similarly impelled (as are most ideal communities) to rigorously enforce the rules that distinguish them (see <a href="/entry/crime_and_punishment">Crime and Punishment</a>). The Society of Cousins is a matriarchy whose disenfranchisement of males, and of those who have transitioned from female to male (see <a href="/entry/transgender_sf">Transgender SF</a>), are challenged as the narrative progresses (see <a href="/entry/gender">Gender</a>). The <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard SF</a> substrate to the long tale surfaces variously, through the significant <a href="/entry/invention">Invention</a> of a duplicator (see <a href="/entry/matter_transmission">Matter Transmission</a>), and the presence of <a href="/entry/uplift">Uplifted</a> canines and other "animals" (see <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetic Engineering</a>).</p> <p>In the new century Kessel, again with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a>, began editing anthologies such as <i>Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology</i> (anth <b>2006</b>) and <i>The Secret History of Science Fiction</i> (anth <b>2009</b>). They all provide an overview of a phenomenon of recent speculative fiction such as <a href="/entry/slipstream">Slipstream</a> through a meticulously chosen array of stories and expository material. In this work, as in his fiction – he won a novelette <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> for "Pride and Prometheus" (January 2008 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>) – Kessel seems one of science fiction's most necessary critics. [JC/GS]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/end_of_the_world">End of the World</a>; <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/fsf">Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">John Joseph Vincent Kessel</h3> <p><b>born</b> Buffalo, New York: 24 September 1950</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kessel_john&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=kessel_john'"></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Freedom+Beach&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Freedom Beach</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1985</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [hb/Tom <a href="/entry/kidd_tom">Kidd</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Good+News+From+Outer+Space&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Good News From Outer Space</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1989</b>) [hb/Cityline Communications]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Another+Orphan&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Another Orphan</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1989</b>) [chap: dos: pb/Tom <a href="/entry/kidd_tom">Kidd</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Corrupting+Dr+Nice&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Corrupting Dr Nice</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1997</b>) [hb/Peter Bollinger]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Moon+and+the+Other&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Moon and the Other</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga Press, <b>2017</b>) [hb/Thinkstock]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Pride+and+Prometheus&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Pride and Prometheus</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga Press, <b>2018</b>) [hb/Robert Hunt]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Meeting+in+Infinity+Allegories+and+Extrapolations&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Meeting in Infinity: Allegories and Extrapolations</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1992</b>) [coll: illus/J K <a href="/entry/potter_j_k">Potter</a>: hb/Edvard Munch]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Pure+Product+Stories&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Pure Product: Stories</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1997</b>) [coll: hb/Ed Gazsi]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Baum+Plan+for+Financial+Independence+and&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories</a></em> (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer, <b>2008</b>) [coll: hb/Nathan Huang]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ninety+Percent+of+Everything&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ninety Percent of Everything</a></em> (no place given: James Patrick Kelly, <b>2011</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</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+Collected+Kessel&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Kessel</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2012</b>) [coll: ebook: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dark+Ride+The+Best+Short+Fiction+of+John&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2022</b>) [coll: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Presidential+Papers+plus++&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Presidential Papers, plus ...</a></em> (Oakland, California: PM Press, <b>2024</b>) [coll: 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=A+Backward+Glance&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Backward Glance</a></em> (Merion Station, Pennsylvania: Magic Pen Press, <b>2005</b>) with Gregory <a href="/entry/frost_gregory">Frost</a> [nonfiction: chap: a conversation between the two: pb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Intersections+The+Sycamore+Hill+Anthology&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1996</b>) with Richard <a href="/entry/butner_richard">Butner</a> and Mark L <a href="/entry/van_name_mark_l">Van Name</a> [anth: hb/Jan Uretsky]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Feeling+Very+Strange+The+Slipstream+Anthology&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2006</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [anth: pb/Isabelle Rozenbaum]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rewired+The+Post-Cyberpunk+Anthology&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2007</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [anth: pb/Patty Nason]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Secret+History+of+Science+Fiction&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Secret History of Science Fiction</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, <b>2009</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [anth: pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nebula+Awards+Showcase+2012&field-author=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nebula Awards Showcase 2012</a></em> (Amherst, New York: Pyr, <b>2012</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/nebula_anthologies">Nebula Anthologies</a>: <b>Nebula Awards</b>: 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=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2011</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</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=Kessel+John" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, <b>2012</b>) with James Patrick <a href="/entry/kelly_james_patrick">Kelly</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/singularity">Singularity</a>: pb/Josh Beatman]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/%7Etenshi/index2.html">John Kessel</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1413">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=kessel_john">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kessel_john' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul><br /><br /></article></div> <div 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