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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Mind Meld , nothing seems more apt than reviewing The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. At first glance, the selection of authors seem contrary: T.C. Boyle and Margaret Atwood for example are authors whom we associate with the "we don't write science fiction" crowd. And then there's the science fiction writers who've...
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Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... a reconciliation between sf and the rest of literature and the mutual enrichment of both. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have an argument with that idea in their anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction , selecting stories by authors on both sides of the divide to illustrate their thesis that the so-called boundary between sf and ‘mainstream’...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tachyon Publications has a new anthology out called . It centers around a subject that has sparked countless debates and rants among Science Fiction fans. And no, it's not River Tam vs. James T. Kirk.Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have collected these nineteen stories to explore the supposed divide between mainstream literature and speculative fiction. They've...
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Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... crossed over to the mainstream to some extent. What's impressive with the introduction by editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel is that it has a narrative to it. It starts with a reaction to an essay by Jonathan Lethem which posits what if Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow had won the Nebula Award, instead of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama . Would this have...
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