Two award-winning novels and a huge volume of the short fiction of one of the most original voices in all of science fiction, brought together for the first time in one volume.
Contains a new introduction for Good News from Outer Space, and all new story afterwords for The Collected Kessel, as well.
Witty, sometime slap-your-knee funny, action-filled, moving, evocative, sad, hopeful, and always, always intelligent and thought-provoking: John Kessel's science fiction stories have won a place as some of the best work in contemporary science fiction. These are stories that are deep and wide—and as entertaining as they are thought-provoking. Kessel loves science fiction, and it shows. The stories run the gamut from characters thrown into novels, historical events, or strange futures full of surprises to Kafkaesque twists on the metaphysical made very real (and often darkly amusing).
“Brilliantly intelligent, light-handed, and warm-hearted. . ." —Ursula K. Le Guin
“Kessel treats his characters with warmth and compassion even while he's putting them through the wringer." —The San Francisco Chronicle
Science fiction writer John Kessel is the winner of two Nebulas, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, among many others. He is professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University.
$6 each / $15 for the bundle.
Listen to Illogicon 3, Roundtable on the Future of the Book discuss the John Kessel Bundle here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.
The Collected Kessel
The Baen Ebook Edition of the collected short fiction of John Kessel is all new. First time in one volume.
A huge gathering of the collected short fiction of one of the most original voices in all of science fiction. Contains two Nebula winners and multiple nominees.
All-new story afterwords by the author.
Witty, sometime slap-your-knee funny, action-filled, moving, evocative, sad, hopeful, and always, always intelligent and thought-provoking: John Kessel's science fiction stories have won a place as some of the best work in contemporary science fiction. These are stories that are deep and wide—and as entertaining as they are thought-provoking. Kessel loves science fiction, and it shows. The stories run the gamut from characters thrown into novels, historical events, or strange futures full of surprises to Kafkaesque twists on the metaphysical made very real (and often darkly amusing).
"Brilliantly intelligent, light-handed, and warm-hearted. . ." —Ursula K. Le Guin
"Kessel treats his characters with warmth and compassion even while he's putting them through the wringer." —The San Francisco Chronicle
Science fiction writer John Kessel is the winner of two Nebulas, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, among many others. He is professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University.
Corrupting Dr. Nice
What if time travelers not only regularly travelled back to take a gander at the Crucifixion, but they packaged it as tour? In a world where sightseeing tours to ancient Jerusalem and front row seats at Caesar's assassination are a vacation away, nice-guy Dr. Owen Vannice is not interested in such voyeurism. All he wants is to bring a dinosaur named Wilma forward for study. Then he meets August and Genevieve, a father-and-daughter con artist team, and together they land in the middle of a revolt of literally Biblical proportions. What ensures is a wickedly entertaining blend of screwball comedy and biting social satire from one of science fiction's most wickedly amusing authors.
Science fiction writer John Kessel is the winner of two Nebulas, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, among many others. He is professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University.
"The character of Simon and the portrait of a Jerusalem under time-traveling occupation are superlatively well done. . . intelligent and entertaining throughout."—Publishers Weekly
Good News from Outer Space
Meet George Eberhart: former journalist, professional iconoclast. Recently resuscitated from a suicide attempt by the newly perfected Han process—a scientific advance widely regarded as blasphemous—George becomes fascinated by a pattern of events that suggests a protean alien lifeform is playing sadistic games with unsuspecting Earthlings. Following a trail of mayhem that might have come from the Weekly World News headlines, George sets out to find the creature and discover exactly what its plans are for Earth.
With a new introduction by the author.
Science fiction writer John Kessel is the winner of two Nebulas, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. He is professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University.
". . .a black comedy of pre-millenial hysteria. . [that is] an outstandingly original work. . . [told in] in an intelligent, witty voice."—Publishers Weekly
Two award-winning novels and a huge volume of the short fiction of one of the most original voices in all of science fiction, brought together for the first time in one volume.
Contains a new introduction for Good News from Outer Space, and all new story afterwords for The Collected Kessel, as well.
Witty, sometime slap-your-knee funny, action-filled, moving, evocative, sad, hopeful, and always, always intelligent and thought-provoking: John Kessel's science fiction stories have won a place as some of the best work in contemporary science fiction. These are stories that are deep and wide—and as entertaining as they are thought-provoking. Kessel loves science fiction, and it shows. The stories run the gamut from characters thrown into novels, historical events, or strange futures full of surprises to Kafkaesque twists on the metaphysical made very real (and often darkly amusing).
“Brilliantly intelligent, light-handed, and warm-hearted. . ." —Ursula K. Le Guin
“Kessel treats his characters with warmth and compassion even while he's putting them through the wringer." —The San Francisco Chronicle
Science fiction writer John Kessel is the winner of two Nebulas, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, among many others. He is professor of creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University.
$6 each / $15 for the bundle.
Listen to Illogicon 3, Roundtable on the Future of the Book discuss the John Kessel Bundle here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.
