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 Here is my new collection from Golden Gryphon. It includes twelve stories and my short novel BURN, which won the Science Fiction Writer's of America's Nebula Award in 2007. This is my third collection from Golden Gryphon and my longest. I am particularly pleased to be showcasing my title novella "The Wreck of The Godspeed" since I think it is some of my best work but was fairly obscurely published. Other important stories in the collection are award nominees "The Best Christmas Ever," "Bernardo's House" and "Men Are Trouble."
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 In 2005 I started the Free Reads Podcast which featured me reading my own work. In that time I have read maybe a dozen stories, several columns and my novels BURN and LOOK INTO THE SUN. A few of the stories on the Free Reads podcast also appear on James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod over on Audible.com, only in higher fidelity and with introductions and afterwords. Free Reads has been subject to podfade from time to time, but it is a project I intend to keep at until I can't croak anymore, in which case I will probably have croaked.
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With my friend and co-conspirator, John Kessel, I have edited a series of anthologies for Tachyon Publications which seek to shed light on different parts of the genre and which, in fact, make the case that some genre definitions are eroding or perhaps never realy meant very much to begin with. Two of them, FEELING VERY STRANGE, THE SLIPSTREAM ANTHOLOGY and REWIRED, THE POST CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY are out and about. THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION is forthcoming.
  
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It seems like only yesterday that I published my first June story in Asimov's but in fact it was twenty-five years ago that the tradition started. To commemorate my silver anniversary, Editor Sheila Williams surprised me with a kind of JPK tribute issue . In addition to the short story "Going Deep" you can also read another installment of my "On the Net" column entitled "Mind The Gap," a lovely editorial from Sheila recounting some of the highlights of our long friendship and professional relationship and tributes from some of my writer pals including Connie Willis, John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling and Sandra McDonald. I was well and truly croggled. Get it while it's still on the newstands, a bargain at $4.99.
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