Jacob Weisman, John Kessel, and Sydney Duncan at the 2007 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (photo: Andy Duncan)

Nebula, Sturgeon, Shirley Jackson, and Locus award winner John Kessel
latest novel is Pride and Prometheus. Previously works
include Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly), Corrupting
Dr. Nice, Good News from Outer Space, and
The Moon and Other. His play Faustfeathers received the
Paul Green Playwrights’ Prize.

His numerous short
stories have been collected in Meeting In Infinity, The
Pure Product, The Baum Plan For Financial Independence and
Other Stories, Ninety Percent Of Everything (with James
Patrick Kelly and Jonathan Lethem), and The Collected Kessel.
For ABC’s science fiction anthology series Masters of
Science Fiction, Sam Egan adapted Kessel’s story “A Clean
Escape.”

Kessel teaches
courses in science-fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North
Carolina State University. With Mark L. Van Name, Kessel created the
Sycamore Hill Writer’s Workshop. His criticism has appeared in
Foundation, Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York
Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction
Age.

Alongside James Partick Kelly, Kessel co-edited the acclaimed anthologies: DIGITAL RAPTURE: THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY, FEELING VERY STRANGE: THE SLIPSTREAM ANTHOLOGY, REWIRED: THE POST-CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY, THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION, and KAFKAESQUE: STORIES INSPIRED BY FRANZ KAFKA.

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted John an extraordinary birthday.

For more info about THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

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