John Kessel

cyborging n.	2008 J. Kessel Last American in Asimov’s Science Fiction Feb. 81 Longevity breakthroughs, new medicine, genetic engineering, cyborging, and AI.
problem story n.	1994 J. Kessel Books: Canons Left and Right in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 24/1 James Blish’s ‘How Beautiful with Banners’ [...] merges speculative exobiology with speculative technology to produce what at first appears to be a problem story in the classic Golden Age pattern: explorer on alien world confronted with deadly challenge based on scientific speculation. [...] Here is a story poised between the problem solving mode of the Campbell era and the characterization/metaphor mode of postmodern sf.
proto-cyberpunk adj.	1994 J. Kessel Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 24/1 They include hard science stories like…Fred Pohl’s in-your-face assault ‘Day Million’, a proto-cyberpunk hymn to accelerating social and technological change.
uptime adv.	1997 J. Kessel Corrupting Dr. Nice (1998) 69 Smuggling a dinosaur uptime would be tricky.