Winner of the
Hugo Award
Nebula Award
Locus Award
Asimov’s Readers Poll
Nominated for the
Tiptree Award
Sturgeon Award
Seuin Award (Japan)
“He changes our attitudes and our perceptions and even our understanding of what the short story can be, and he does it in stories which are disturbing, clever, affecting, funny, and unique in every sense of the word.”
—Connie Willis
“James Patrick Kelly has written some of my very favorite short stories. As a matter of fact, I get anxious when I haven’t read a Kelly story in a while. Can’t we just clone him?”
—Kelly Link
“Against all law and likelihood, [he goes on] reinventing himself each time out, always questioning the basic premise of what a science fiction story can be, or a James Patrick Kelly story, or a story in the first place.”
—Jonathan Lethem
“What I guess I’m saying is that I like the way Jim Kelly writes science fiction and makes it art. Jim entertains me and makes me think and makes me feel—all without showing off.”
—John Kessel
“He never behaves as a gaseous interstellar intellectual, yet he is nevertheless keenly and even somewhat scarily intelligent. Thinking back over the Kelly oeuvre, I’m struck not only by its solid craft but by its visionary qualities.”
—Bruce Sterling