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- Legal Name: Kessel, John Joseph Vincent
- Birthplace: Buffalo, New York, USA
- Birthdate: 24 September 1950
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kessel
- IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450261/
- Webpage: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/index2.html
- Webpage: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kessel_john
- Interviews: John Kessel: No More Dr. Nice , Good News from North Carolina: An Interview with John Kessel , John Kessel: Literary Vampire? , John Kessel is at Work , Professor SF: An Interview with John Kessel , John Kessel: Between Two Worlds , Interview: John Kessel
- ISFDB Record Number: 1413
- Biography: Bio:John Kessel
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:John Kessel
- Author Tags: best of year anthology (3) , honorable mention dozois years best (2) , nebula award for best novel finalist (1) , read (1) , to read 1986 (1) , space opera (1)
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- Freedom Beach (1985) with James Patrick Kelly
- Good News From Outer Space (1989)
- Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997)
- Meeting in Infinity (1992)
- The Pure Product (1997)
- The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (2008)
- Ninety Percent of Everything (2011) with James Patrick Kelly and Jonathan Lethem
- The Collected Kessel (2012)
- Enemy Mine / Another Orphan (1989) with Barry B. Longyear
- Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (1996) with Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner
- Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007) with James Patrick Kelly
- Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2008) with James Patrick Kelly
- The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009) with James Patrick Kelly
- Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka (2011) with James Patrick Kelly
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) with James Patrick Kelly
- Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology (2012) with James Patrick Kelly
- The Silver Man (1978)
- Crosswhen #1 (comic) (1978) with Terry Lee
- Crosswhen #2 (comic) (1978) with Terry Lee
- Crosswhen #3 (comic) (1978) with Terry Lee
- The Incredible Living Man (1978)
- Just Like a Cretin Dog (1979)
- Crosswhen #4 (comic) (1979) with Terry Lee
- In an Alien Wood (1979)
- Crosswhen #5: The Slums of Space (comic) (1979) with Terry Lee
- Crosswhen #6 (comic) (1979) with Terry Lee
- Crosswhen #7: The Slums of Space (comic) (1979) with Terry Lee
- Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso (1980)
- Crosswhen #8 (comic) (1980) with Terry Lee
- Last Things (1980)
- The Monuments of Science Fiction (1980)
- Animals (1980)
- Uncle John and the Saviour (1980)
- Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (1981)
- Another Orphan (1982)
- Below Zero (1983)
- Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine (1983)
- Friend (1984) with James Patrick Kelly
- The Big Dream (1984)
- Freedom Beach (1984) with James Patrick Kelly
- The Lecturer (1984)
- A Clean Escape (1985)
- Reduction (1986) with Gregory Frost
- The Pure Product (1986)
- Credibility (1987)
- Judgment Call (1987)
- Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner (1988)
- Buddha Nostril Bird (1990)
- Invaders (1990)
- Buffalo (1991)
- The Moral Bullet (1991) with Bruce Sterling
- Man (1992)
- Faustfeathers (1992)
- "SF Story" (1993)
- The Franchise (1993)
- The Einstein Express (1993)
- Some Like It Cold (1995)
- The True History of the End of the World (1995) with Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly
- The Miracle of Ivar Avenue (1996)
- Gulliver at Home (1997)
- Faustfeathers: A Comedy (1997)
- Every Angel Is Terrifying (1998)
- The President's Channel (1998)
- Ninety Percent of Everything (1999) with Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly
- The Juniper Tree (2000)
- The Family Vacation (2002)
- Stories for Men (2002)
- The Invisible Empire (2002)
- Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres (2003)
- Under the Lunchbox Tree (2003)
- It's All True (2003)
- The Baum Plan for Financial Independence (2004)
- The Red Phone (2005)
- The Snake Girl (2006)
- Sunlight or Rock (2006)
- The Last American (2007)
- Downtown (2007)
- Pride and Prometheus (2008)
- Powerless (2008)
- The Motorman's Coat (2009)
- Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (2009)
- Iteration (2010)
- The Closet (2010)
- Clean (2011)
- Mr. Hyde Visits the Home of Dr. Jekyll (1989)
- Reading Lesson (1990)
- Letter (Locus #232) (1980)
- The Humanist Manifesto (1987)
- Read This (NYRSF, October 1988) (1988)
- John Kessel: A Bibliography (1989)
- Why Listen to Lucius? (1989)
- An Opinion (1989)
- Why SF is Not Welcome in the Parlor (1989)
- Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
- Robert Heinlein: One Sane Man? (1989)
- Crowley's Blues (1990)
- Carl Sherrell (1990)
- A Note on Richard Grant's "The Exile's Paradigm" (1990)
- Demonizing Literature (1990)
- Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1991) (1991)
- Meeting in Infinity (1992)
- Letter (Science Fiction Eye #11) (1992)
- The Brother from Another Planet: Science Fiction vs. Mainstream Short Stories (1993)
- Books (F&SF, March 1993) (1993)
- Books: Today's Truth (1993)
- Books: The Big Book, Women, and God (1993)
- Books: No Place Like Home (1993)
- Letter (Locus #393) (1993)
- Books: Forward into the Past (1993)
- Books: Just Like Real People (1994)
- Books: Canons Left and Right (1994)
- Books: Growing Up the Hard Way (1994)
- Books: Parables and Other Stuff (1994)
- Books: Hard Work (1994)
- Books: Prisoners of Perception (1995)
- It's time to load the canon with SF's most influential books. (1995)
- Books: Grace Under Pressure (1995)
- The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium (1996) with Nicola Griffith and Pat Murphy and James E. Gunn and Jack Dann and Sheila Finch and Paul Di Filippo [only as by Paul Di Filippo and James Gunn and Pat Murphy and Sheila Finch and Jack Dann and Nicola Griffith and John Kessel ]
- Introduction: Fun in the Burn Ward (1996) with Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner
- Uncle Henry, Uncle Zorp, and Crazy Cousin Bingo (1996)
- Screed (letters of comment) (NYRSF, September 1996) (1996)
- Foreword (Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories) (1997)
- Author's Note (The Pure Product) (1997)
- Postcyberpunk Manifesto Reaction (1998)
- Who I'll Cast When They Let Me Direct . . . (1998)
- Jim Turner: An Appreciation (1999)
- Lists (2000)
- Afterword, Final Grade Report: Andy Duncan (2000)
- Final Grade Report: Andy Duncan (Afterword to _Beluthahatchie and Other Stories_) (2000)
- Jack: Out of the Box (2001)
- Introduction to Dinner Party (2001)
- On Damon Knight (2002)
- Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality (2004)
- Curiosities: Tom's A-Cold, by John Collier (1933) (2004)
- Afterword: The Damned Human Race (2005)
- Introduction (Gunning for the Buddha) (2005)
- Slipstream, the Genre That Isn't (2006) with James Patrick Kelly
- I Want My 20th Century Schizoid Art, Parts I-IV (2006) with James Patrick Kelly
- James Gunn, Grandmaster (2007)
- Books (F&SF, January 2007) (2007)
- Kessel-Sterling Correspondence (2007) with Bruce Sterling
- Hacking Cyberpunk (Introduction to Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology) (2007) with James Patrick Kelly
- James Gunn, Grand Master (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) (2008)
- Letter (NYRSF, April 2009) (2009)
- Remaking History: The Short Fiction (2009)
- The Modest One (2009)
- Encuentro Fractal '09 (2009) with James Patrick Kelly
- Introduction (The Secret History of Science Fiction) (2009) with James Patrick Kelly
- Imagining the Human Future: Up, Down, or Sideways (2010)
- Stories After Kafka (2011) with James Patrick Kelly
- On the Translation of "A Hunger Artist" (2011)
- Discovering the Unique Voice of J3(P)K2+L (2011) with James Patrick Kelly and Jonathan Lethem
- In Which Your Editors Consider the Nebula Awards of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2012) with James Patrick Kelly
- Introduction: Digital Rapture (2012) with James Patrick Kelly
- Digital Rapture (2012) with James Patrick Kelly
- Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction (1975) by James Gunn
- Destination: Infinity (1976) by Henry Kuttner
- Final Blackout (1976) by L. Ron Hubbard
- Inferno (1976) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The Wanderer (1976) by Fritz Leiber
- The Best of A. E. van Vogt (1977) by A. E. van Vogt
- In Blue (1990) by John Crowley
- Doomsday Book (1992) by Connie Willis
- Lost Boys (1993) by Orson Scott Card
- Count Geiger's Blues (1993) by Michael Bishop
- Nightside the Long Sun (1993) by Gene Wolfe
- China Mountain Zhang (1993) by Maureen F. McHugh
- Nightside the Long Sun (1993) by Gene Wolfe
- Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1993) by Larry McCaffery
- Globalhead (1993) by Bruce Sterling
- The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier (1993) by Bruce Sterling
- Kalifornia (1993) by Marc Laidlaw
- Red Mars (1993) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream (1993) by Judith Moffett
- Rainbow Man (1993) by M. J. Engh
- Beginnings, Middles and Ends (1993) by Nancy Kress
- The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe (1993) by George Ochoa and Jeffrey Osier
- Blackburn (1993) by Bradley Denton
- Was (1993) by Geoff Ryman
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993) by Gardner Dozois
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- White Queen (1994) by Gwyneth Jones
- Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories (1994) by Terry Bisson
- The Pure Cold Light (1994) by Gregory Frost
- Argyll: A Memoir (1994) by Theodore Sturgeon
- The Rediscovery of Man (1994) by Cordwainer Smith
- Testing (1994) by Charles Oberndorf
- The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1994) by Tom Shippey
- The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American SF, 1960-1990 (1994) by Brian Attebery and Ursula K. Le Guin
- Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1994) by Gardner Dozois
- Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994) by Gardner Dozois
- Glimpses (1994) by Lewis Shiner
- Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994) by Spider Robinson
- Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993 (1994) by Brad Templeton
- X, Y (1994) by Michael Blumlein
- Parable of the Sower (1994) by Octavia Butler
- The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer
- Rationalizing Genius (1994) by John Huntington
- Wildlife (1994) by James Patrick Kelly
- Slow Funeral (1995) by Rebecca Ore
- Half the Day is Night (1995) by Maureen F. McHugh
- Tom's A-Cold (2004) by John Collier
- Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction (2007) by Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan
- In Persuasion Nation (2007) by George Saunders
- The Nimrod Flipout (2007) by Etgar Keret
- Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories (2007) by Alan DeNiro
- Slipstreams (2007) by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers