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10 to the 16 to 1 [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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 A small boy struggling in the thick of the Cold War is thrown into the middle of the struggle to preserve humanity. (Published: 1999) Hugo Award Winner
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Breakaway, Backdown [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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This story presents a gritty, realistic view of what the real consequences may be of people occupying space for long periods of time. It's written in an unusual second-person style in which you, the reader, take the role of a shoe-sales person talking with a person who has just dropped out of the orbital space culture. The main character talks directly to the reader, and the story is written such that you will automatically fill in the other side of the conversation. Highly unusual style, but it... more info>> (Published: 1996) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
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Fruitcake Theory [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Perhaps the aliens who resemble overgrown roosters aren't as dumb as they look.... Very funny first contact story. (Published: 1998)
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Glass Cloud [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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An architect works on a wondrous project, but now the Messengers want to fund its completion. An engrossing story that contains a myriad of intertwined concepts, from architecture to immortality. (Published: 1987) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 17500 - Reading Time: 50-70 min.
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Saint Theresa of the Aliens [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Aliens have landed in Russia and declare that the communists were right all along, prompting a religious backlash. (Published: 1984) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 9000 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
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Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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A street-smart lifelong welfare-receiving twentysomething finds himself standing in a strange line awaiting ... what? (Published: 1991) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 9000 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
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Think Like a Dinosaur [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Lizard-like aliens have given humanity the key to interstellar travel, but there's one catch: to use it you must be prepared to think like they do about the meaning of personal identity. Beautifully written, shocking work that was a breakthrough for James Patrick Kelly. (Published: 1995) Hugo Award Winner
Words: 7752 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Bernardo's House [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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An AI residence serves as both domestic servant and concubine to Bernardo, its wealthy owner. But when Bernardo goes missing, the house gets lonely.... (Published: 2003) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 8235 - Reading Time: 23-32 min.
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Big Guy [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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In a highly cyberspace age, a network security jockey seeks love through his odd persona, the "big guy." (Published: 1995)
Words: 5500 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
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Chemistry [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Marja and Lily are young women enslaved in medical school. Bored and lonely, they decide to take a night off. But the singles' joints of their era are more intricate than the loud-music-watery-drinks-bad-pickup-lines emporiums of the past. Part of the deal is medication that duplicates the stimuli of love at first sight. Under its influence, a bald and stammering insurance salesman can look like George Clooney. Both women are smitten with men who aren't their usual types. For one couple, it's ju... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 9662 - Reading Time: 27-38 min.
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Crow [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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The war ended with a blast that obliterated most of the human race on Earth. Now a pair of survivors who were children when IT happened meet a survivalist determined to escape post-nuclear isolation on earth to rejoin humanity in the orbiting spacelabs and moon-based factories. (Published: 1984)
Words: 6888 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
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Daemon [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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While attending an sf convention, James Patrick Kelly is propositioned (ahem) to work on a project that reveals more about an overbearing colleague than he really wants to know. (Note that while the people in this story are real, none of the events depicted actually took place, it's fiction). (Published: 1998)
Words: 7224 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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Dancing with the Chairs [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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While waiting for his girlfriend at their favorite restaurant, a middle-aged man on the verge of deserting his wife receives a mysterious warning from a ghostly acquaintance. (Published: 1989)
Words: 3841 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
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Feel the Zaz [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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In a full-blown Internet media economy of the near future, the film and sports stars of the mid-20th century achieve a perversely glamorous revival. Has their sort of glamour truly been lost in the 21st century, and can it ever be regained? (Published: 2000) Locus Poll Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Words: 13045 - Reading Time: 37-52 min.
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Home Front [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Middle school kids cheer for 'Johnny America' in a future war against Mexico, and struggle to cope on the home front. (Published: 1988) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 4600 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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James Patrick Kelly Bundle
by James Patrick Kelly
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A convenient way for you to add many of James Patrick Kelly's works to your bookshelf at one time. [When you add a bundle to your cart, any eBooks you already own are automatically removed. You can't accidentally buy the same story twice.]
Words: 79665 - Reading Time: 227-318 min.
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Lovestory [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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On a distant world, a family of furry natives is torn apart when the mother chooses to live with the alien humans. (Published: 1998) Sturgeon Award Nominee
Words: 8319 - Reading Time: 23-33 min.
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Ninety Percent of Everything [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem
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[NOTE: Coauthored by Jonathan Lethem, James Patrick Kelly, and John Kessel.) It's been six years since the alien dog-creatures arrived and began eating tunnels into the earth at five remote locations around the globe--and now a conservative exobiologist joins an eccentric billionaire on his project to discover the secret of the crystals mysteriously forming on top of their offensive waste piles. Humorous SF at its best! (Adult language) (Published: 1999) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 25810 - Reading Time: 73-103 min.
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Pogrom [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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"It was the sun that was driving the world crazy." With the ozone layer ripped away, depression and crime have shattered the planet, including Ruth's once-lovely New Hampshire town. A former Sixties child grown old, Ruth is hunted and despised by the hordes of young "drood" have-nots living all around her. A simple trip across town to visit a friend crippled by droods is a deadly risk. (Published: 1991)
Words: 6398 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Proof of the Existence of God and an Afterlife [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Psychologists stumble onto the answers to mysteries of the universe. (Published: 1998)
Words: 3700 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Rat [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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A drug smuggling rat scurries past the feds to sell his stash to the walking dead of New York. (Published: 1986) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 5026 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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The Cruelest Month [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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After the accidental death of her baby daughter, a distraught mother struggles to deal with the loss--and with an imagination that won't let her go. (Published: 1983)
Words: 6424 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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The First Law of Thermodynamics [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Drugged out college kids from the 60's were not prepared for the changes a new drug makes in their lives. (Published: 1996)
Words: 8500 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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The Prisoner of Chillon [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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Wynne "Eyes" Cage is a "spook journalist," and she's running with a very fast crowd: a gang of "snakes" stealing from the biggest computer company on earth. In their sticky hands is the promise of human-equivalent artificial intelligence, the next great technological leap for our species. But it's too good for the military not to want it, and they play rough. When the caper goes sour, Cage and a surviving thief take refuge with Bonivard, a hideously deformed man riding a spider-like conveyance a... more info>> (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner
Words: 16003 - Reading Time: 45-64 min.
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Undone [MultiFormat]
by James Patrick Kelly
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A space-faring woman and her intelligent ship travel through many dangers, often needing to rely on their ship's ability to "undo" the last few minutes of time by invoking a special form of backwards time travel. (Published: 2001) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 11185 - Reading Time: 31-44 min.
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