From Booklist

The warm humanity and rural sympathies of this affectionate winsome short novel will make many recall Ray Bradbury at his best 

From the New York Times Sunday Book Review

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.

From Publishers Weekly

Those familiar with Kelly’s work will appreciate having his finest stories gathered together in one place, while new readers will be pleased to discover a writer of uncommon subtlety and imagination.

From Publishers Weekly 

Kelly has combined the virtues claimed by the humanists with the technological possibilities that are the cornerstone of cyberpunk in a book that delves into the very core of what it means to be human.