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Men Are Trouble |
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I stared at my sidekick, willing it to chirp. I'd already tried watching the door, but no one had even breathed on it. I could’ve been writing up the Rashmi Jones case, but then I could’ve been dusting the office. It needed dusting. Or having a consult with Johnnie Walker, who had just that morning opened an office in the bottom drawer of my desk. Instead, I decided to open the window. Maybe a new case would arrive by carrier pigeon. Or wrapped around a brick.
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Monsters |
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When Henry looked in his dad's old mirror, he couldn't see the monster. He touched his reflection. Nothing. No shock, no secret thrill, not even a tingle. Usually his nipples tightened or the insides of his knees would get crinkly and if he were in a certain mood he'd crawl back under the covers and think very hard about women in black strapless bras. But this morning -- zero. He stared at a fattish naked white man with thinning hair and yellow teeth. A face as interesting as lint. He wished for a long purple tongue or a disfiguring scar that forked down his cheek, except he didn't want any pain. Not for himself, anyway. Henry hated looking so vanilla. There was nothing terrifying about him except the bad thoughts, which he told no one, not even God. But this morning the monster was cagey. It wanted to get loose and he was tired of holding it back. Something was going to happen. He decided not to shave.
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Think Like A Dinosaur |
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his collection has proved to be one of the highlights of my career. It was the first book published by Golden Gryphon Press, founded by the late and very great Jim Turner. The cover art is by Bob Eggleton. My friend John Kessel wrote a generous introduction. Alas, the hardcover is now out of print and has become something of a collectors' item. But now you can still own it in the sprightly trade paperback edition from Golden Gryphon at the exceptionally affordable price 0f $15.95.
The Critics Have Spoken!
Kelly, whose last novel was Wildlife (1994) is actually better known for his short stories, which blend literary sensibilities and compassion with innovative themes .... Thoughtful, beautifully written stories, just a few degrees north of realism. Booklist, 8/1/97 Starred review
Kelly's mainstream strengths are such, in fact, that he is among the most prominent of those authors who manage to place stories in SF magazines with minimal or debatable SF content. ... the fact that Kelly can move so easily across the short story landscape is both a tribute to his talent and a reassurance that the modern SF short story may not be so far removed from the art story as we had once been led to beleive. Locus, 8/1/97
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Strange But Not A Stranger |
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Here's my latest short story collection from Golden Gryphon. It has a cover by Bob Eggleton and an introduction by Connie Willis and an afterword by yours truly. You can order it direct from the publisher or online from the usual suspects or, better yet, walk into an actual bricks-and -mortar bookstore and order it there!
I think it's a pretty good book, but don't take my word for it. Here's what the critics are saying:
"STRANGE BUT NOT A STRANGER is a welcome collection of short stories by James Patrick Kelly. His best stories deal with the agony of choice. In the Hugo Award-winning ''1016 to 1,'' a 12-year-old science fiction fan meets an emissary from the future in the year 1962; the emissary wants him to save the world by assassinating Adlai Stevenson, thereby precipitating a war against the Soviet Union but avoiding a later conflict that would wipe out the human race. In ''Glass Cloud,'' an architect with an unhappy personal life must decide whether to accept a commission from enigmatic aliens who want him to build ''a tomb for a
goddess'' on a distant planet. My favorite is ''Chemistry,'' in which a woman searching for love in a commercial ''neuromance palace'' must distinguish between a chemically induced attraction that feels real and the fearful prospect of the real thing."
New York Times Sunday Book Review
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