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The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel by John Kessel

Hardcover – Subterranean Press – Jun 2022 – 582 pages

The Dark Ride collects John Kessel’s best short fiction, beginning with 1981’s ‘Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!’ and ending with 2021’s ‘The Dark Ride’. The stories range from flash pieces to novellas, from comedy to existential horror, from far future sci-fi to Kafkaesque fantasy, including 40,000 words of never-before-collected fiction and extensive author’s notes.

All his best are here, among them Nebula Prize winners ‘Another Orphan’ and ‘Pride and Prometheus’, by the writer Sci-Fi Weekly called “quite possibly the best short story writer working in science fiction today”.