NEWS

Coming Soon!

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence

and Other Stories

A collection of stories from my last ten years, including Tiptree Award Winner "Stories for Men." The collection will be published in April 2008. I'll be making bookstore appearances at the following venues.

I have added podcasts of "The Baum Plan," "Pride and Prometheus," and "Every Angel is Terrifying" to my audio page, available for free download to your iPod or MP3 player under creative commons license.

Here are some reviews of the collection.

James Patrick Kelly and I make another foray into anthologizing with

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

Published by Tachyon Books in October 2007.

The anthology seeks to show how the concerns and techniques of 1980s cyberpunk have been re-imagined for the 21st century. It contains stories by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Baciagalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Christopher Rowe, and May Rosenblum.

New Story Available

My new story, "Downtown" is available at the way-cool online magazine

Flurb, A Webzine of Astonishing Tales,

edited and published by writer/mathemetician/visionary Rudy Rucker. 

Lots of other neat stories, photos and art there.

Check it out.

Kessel Reads at Will !

With the help of my friend James Patrick Kelly, I am now able to offer

free audio of me reading my story "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence."  Two other stories,

"A Clean Escape" and "Some Like It Cold" are available from Audible.com (accessible through iTunes).  

I hope to be adding more in the future.

You'll find them here.

New Non-fiction post.

The text of a talk I gave at a 2001 conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, about posthumanity and ethics.

Imagining the Human Future: Up, Down, or Sideways

ABC's Masters of Science Fiction, the first episode of which was based on my story"A Clean Escape", was broadcast in August 2007. It starred Judy Davis and Sam Waterston. The series should soon be available on DVD.

More here, including photos from the production.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

I've posted a memoir I wrote for the series

Contemporary Authors.  More than you ever wanted to know

about growing up Science Fictional in Buffalo, New York.

 
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
has been published by Tachyon Books.

Named "Best Anthology of 2006" by The Green Man review.

Here are some reviews.

My new story, "Sunlight or Rock,"

which is a sequel to my novella "Stories for Men,"

appeared in the September 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

I was a guest writer at Asturcon,
part of the Semana Negra arts festival, in Gijon, Spain, July 8-11, 2005.
Here are some photos.
My novel Good News From Outer Space
has been translated into Spanish by Lorenzo Luengo,

and published in Spain by Bibliopolis Fantastica, under the title

American Apocalypse™

 
Here's an essay on Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
in which I explain carefully why this novel is not good

for your moral and emotional health.

 
Two stories,
"It's All True" and "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence"
are available for your reading pleasure

at the SciFiction website, edited by Ellen Datlow. 

 
My novella "Stories for Men"
shared the 2002 James Tiptree Award for sf dealing with gender issues,
with M. John Harrison's novel Light.  
It is available, along with fifteen other of my stories,
including the novella "Ninety Percent of Everything"
(in collaboration with James Patrick Kelly and Jonathan Lethem)
a finalist for the 2001 Nebula Award

as an ebook from Fictionwise.com.
 
 
Here's an audio interview I did
with John C. Snider of SciFi Dimensions,
in which I comment at some length on "Stories for Men"
and other issues of surpassing interest.
 
 

I am a writer and a teacher.  I have published three novels: Corrupting Dr. Nice, Good News From Outer Space, and Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly). I also have two short story collections available--Meeting In Infinity and The Pure Product--as well as co-editing Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology. In my more-or-less real life I'm a professor in the MFA program and Director of Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.

You can order my books at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com. If you are in the Raleigh, NC area, most of my books are avialable at Quail Ridge Books qrbnancy@aol.com.

I welcome your email at tenshi@unity.ncsu.edu.