This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade from Nebula winner Kessel (Good News from Outer Space), plays on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his ...

John Kessel’s last brush with Hollywood was when a producer was interested in his short story, “Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine,” about a couple who has their memories of one another erased. Then Eternal ...

John Kessel, director of the creative writing program at N.C. State University, now holds an unusual record. “I am now the person who has gone the longest between his first and second Nebula26 years,” ...

Acclaimed science fiction author and literature professor John Kessel recently gave a fantastic talk about science fiction, and you can watch the whole thing online. Here’s the blurb: Science fiction ...

Kessel’s latest is thoughtful, slow-churning social science fiction mashing together what might be seen at first as near-utopias to reveal the underbellies and clashes of dissatisfaction and ...

Today’s the release date for John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus, which fuses Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror with the Regency romance of Jane Austen in an exciting novel that combines two age-old stories ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. John Kessel’s short-story collection ‘The Baum Plan for Financial ...

The Internet has become the fastest way to publish most anything... including science fiction. An N.C. State English professor has discovered that, and as WRAL OnLine reporter Tom Lawrence found out, ...

Fort Collins - Glenadine May Kessel, 88, died on February 21, 2021 in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was the widow of John Kessel. They shared 57 years of marriage before Johnny's death in 2011. They ...