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  • Rewired

    The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

    Edited by James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel ...
    Cyberpunk is dead. The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out shades. Once radical, cyberpunk is now nothing more than a brand.Time to stop flipping the channel.These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Like It Cold

    by John Kessel ...
    The woman had an appointment with Death--unless the mysterious stranger from another time could intervene. But for what sinister purpose? ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presidential Papers

    by John Kessel ...
    It's a 'fix up,' science fiction's oldest form (short stories combined to make, or seem to make, one narrative), resulting in a book that Kessel alone could have dreamed up and done. He often writes about US Presidents. Why not stack them in order, by era and importance and culpability. The narrative they shape together is for the reader to discover. And featuring our usual Outspoken Interview. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence

    and Other Stories

    by John Kessel ...
    Stories intersecting imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Includes Kessel's modern classic story sequence about life on the moon. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel

    by John Kessel ...
    “Completely strange and idiosyncratic. His stories are singular experiences... They burst out of their texts with news that is strange, mysterious, beyond reason or parsing—beyond Kessel himself, it seems, who must have been as startled as anyone to see such sentences appear on his page. They are uncanny. “—Kim Stanley Robinson, from his IntroductionThe Dark Ride collects John Kessel’s best short ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Presidential Papers

    by John Kessel ...
    Series Book 31 - Outspoken Authors
    Mixing satire, farce, and dystopia, the stories in John Kessel's The Presidential Papers deconstruct the character and politics of five imagined presidents, some of whom bear striking resemblance to individuals who have occupied the Oval Office over the last thirty years.Who are these men and what makes them so funny, when they are not terrifying? How damaged does a person need to be to seek such ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pride and Prometheus

    by John Kessel ...
    “Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful.” —Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides OurselvesPride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic Victor Frankenstein and befriends his monstrous Creature in this clever fusion of two popular classics.Threatened with dest. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Moon and the Other

    by John Kessel ...
    A Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selection of the Year“Charming, sexy.” —The Washington PostJohn Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles

    by Bram de Jager, Thijs van Keulen, John Kessels ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles. The background, environmental motivation and control challenges associated with hybrid vehicles are introduced. The text includes mathematical models for all relevant components in the hybrid power train. The power split problem in hybrid power trains is formally described and several numerical ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Forever Magazine Issue 61

    by Neil Clarke, Carrie Vaughn, Cat Rambo, John Kessel ...
    Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our February 2020 issue features "Gremlin" by Carrie Vaughn, "Red in Tooth and Cog" by Cat Rambo, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 124

    by Neil Clarke, Rich Larson, Lettie Prell, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Gary Kloster, John Kessel, Aliette de Bodard, Lorenzo Crescentini, Emanuela Valentini ...
    Series Book 124 - Clarkesworld Magazine
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our January 2017 issue (#124) contains:Original stories by Rich Larson ("The Ghost Ship Anastasia"), Vina Jie-Min Prasad ("A Series of Steaks"), Lettie Prell ("Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities"), ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Pride and Prometheus

    by John Kessel ...
    Narrated by Jill Tanner, James Langton, Samuel Roukin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 44 min

    "Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful." -Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves Pride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic Victor Frankenstein and befriends his monstrous Creature in this clever fusion of two popular classics. Threatened with ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook