John Kessel
8 Quotations from John Kessel
| cyborging n. | 2008 Last American in Asimov’s Science Fiction Feb. 81 Longevity breakthroughs, new medicine, genetic engineering, cyborging, and AI. |
| non-genre adj. | 1994 Books: Canons Left and Right in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 23/2 I would have risked taking stories that might be familiar to genre readers knowing that they would be new to non-genre readers. |
| problem story n. | 1994 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 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. |
| sharecropped adj. | 1994 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 28/2 And we have tons of meretricious crap, media generated and oriented fodder, sharecropped sequels to books by dead writers whose corpses are being used as brand names, endless fantasy quest series, endless militaristic wet dreams. |
| sharecropper n. | 1995 Books: Prisoners of Perception in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 30/2 There are many kinds of writers: the highbrows, the packagers, the high fantasists, the low fantasists, the horror writers, the hard sf writers, the soft sf writers, the feminists, the series writers, the producers of movie and TV tie-ins, the sharecroppers. |
| uptime adv. | 1997 Corrupting Dr. Nice (1998) 69 Smuggling a dinosaur uptime would be tricky. |
| viewphone n. | 1983 Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine in Asimov's Science Fiction Oct. 34 She asked Mary to keep an eye on forex trading and went to her office to use the view[-]phone. |