@booklet {10678, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Fix That House!{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 283}, year = {2019}, month = {September-October 2019}, pages = {58-61}, abstract = {

The satirical story is set in a future U.S. South where slavery still exists.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {9640, title = {The Moon and the Other}, year = {2017}, month = {1017}, pages = {594 pp}, publisher = {Saga Press/Simon \& Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The Society of Cousins, in which women are the leaders, contrasted with the other societies on the moon, which are mostly patriarchal, that see the Society of Cousins as a threat. See also 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2006 for other works regarding the Society of Cousins.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {8217, title = {"Consolation"}, howpublished = {Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor\’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.

}, month = {2015}, pages = {99-117}, publisher = {MIT Technology Review}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {5933, title = {"The Last American"}, howpublished = {Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction }, volume = {36.100 }, year = {2007}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories\ (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 241-57.

}, month = {Summer 2007}, pages = {87-100}, abstract = {

Dystopia that follows the history of one man who is instrumental in creating the political and religious system that led to the collapse of the world economy and ecosystem and the end of the human race. Written from the perspective of posthumans.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {5783, title = {"Sunlight or Rock"}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction }, volume = {30.9}, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories\ (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 177-96.

}, month = {September 2006}, pages = {22-36}, abstract = {

Set in the same milieu as 2000, 2002, and 2003 Kessel. This is the story of a man expelled from the Society of Cousins for taking part in the men\’s revolt. See also 2017 Kessel.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {5410, title = {"Under the Lunchbox Tree"}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction}, volume = {27.7 (330) }, year = {2003}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 164-76.

}, month = {July 2003}, pages = {16-25}, abstract = {

Set in the same milieu as 2000 and 2002 Kessel. A brief story of a girl growing up in the Society of Cousins. See also 2006 and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins The lunchbox tree is an image in L. Frank Baum\’s (1856-1919) Ozma of Oz. Chicago, Reilly \& Britton, 1907.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {5303, title = {"The Invisible Empire"}, howpublished = {The New Wave Fabulists}, volume = {Volume 39 of Conjunctions}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {295-307}, publisher = {Bard College}, address = {Annandale-on-Hudson, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which\ an organization of women kill men who abuse women.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)}, editor = {Peter Straub} } @booklet {5304, title = {"Stories for Men"}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction}, volume = { 26.10\& 11 (321\& 322) }, year = {2002}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2003), 243-301 with an editor\’s introduction on 243; in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 85-163; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 199-280, with a note on the story on 570-571.

}, month = {October/November 2002}, pages = {170-224}, abstract = {

Set in the same milieu as 2000 Kessel. This story gives more detail regarding the society described in the first story with the emphasis on an abortive male movement for more rights. See 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {5111, title = {"The Juniper Tree"}, howpublished = {Science Fiction Age }, volume = {8.2 }, year = {2000}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories\ (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 49-84.

}, month = {January 2000}, pages = {56-67}, abstract = {

A society, called the Society of Cousins, formed to free women from the dominance of men and located in tunnels on the far side of the moon. The story shows both the eutopia created and its problems, which include discrimination against those perceived as not fitting in, issues of power, and issues of possessiveness and jealousy combined with a very free sexuality presented positively.\ See 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4761, title = {"Bicycle Repairman"}, howpublished = {Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology}, year = {1996}, note = {

Rpt. in Asimov\’s Science Fiction 20.10\&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov\’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in hisA Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as\ A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor\’s note on 790.\ 

}, month = {1996}, pages = {22-56 with "Workshop Comments" on 57-59 and "Afterword to {\textquoteright}Bicycle Repairman{\textquoteright}" on 59.}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)}, editor = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) and Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner} } @booklet {11795, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Buddha Nostril Bird{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {14.3 (154)}, year = {1990}, note = {

Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.

}, month = {March 1990}, pages = {56-75}, abstract = {

A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato\’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-64524-058-7 }, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4059, title = {Good News From Outer Space}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Set in 1999 and centers on the belief in the approaching millennium. Dystopian background. Strong Christian fundamentalism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3334, title = {"Not Responsible! Park and Lock It"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {61.3 (364) }, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Pure Product. Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 303-328; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 11-33, with a note on the story on 563-565.

}, month = {September 1981}, pages = {59-78}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which all people live on a westbound highway with support services from, and it becomes clear, control by robots. Men are the drivers; women appear to be almost entirely in traditional roles. The story follows one boy from birth to getting his own car. Although the family has been travelling all the years in between, both events take place at the same mile marker. The Eastbound lanes appear to be a religious myth enforced by robots.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950)} }