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,” ...

The EPONYMOUS first story in John Kessel’s new collection, “The Baum Plan for Financial Independence,” gets straight to the point. A hardscrabble ex-con is whisked with his sometime moll to a ...

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 ...

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, ...

The charged political climate has sparked renewed interest in dystopias such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "1984." Three new science-fiction books capture our taste for story lines involving societal ...