The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
John Kessel

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An astonishing, long-awaited collection of stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic "Lunar Quartet" sequence about life on the moon. "A sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel's wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you'll ever read ("The Red Phone")." A- —Entertainment Weekly

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Table of Contents

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence [audio]
Every Angel is Terrifying [audio]
Downtown
The Last American
The Invisible Empire
A Lunar Quartet
- The Juniper Tree
- Stories for Men
- Under the Lunchbox Tree
- Sunlight or Rock
The Snake Girl
It's All True
The Red Phone
Powerless
Pride and Prometheus [part 1 | part 2]

Reviews

"One of the best collections of the year."
-- Locus

"These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch."
-- Publishers Weekly

"John Kessel's writing exists at the edge of things, in the dark corner where the fiction section abuts the science-fiction shelves, in the hyphen where magic meets realism. Reading Kessel's wonderful fabulations is like staying out too late partying and seeing strange angels while stumbling home in the dawn's first light. This is one of those too rare short story collections that you can recommend with confidence to both the literary snob and the hard-core computer geek."
-- Rich Rennicks, Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC

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On the web:

• John Kessel's home page
• A sneak peek at the collection in the Raleigh News & Observer.
• Scifi Weekly Interview with Kessel and James Patrick Kelly by John Joseph Adams (2006)
• Scifidimensions audio interview (2002)
• Strange Horizons interview (2001)
• Locus Interview, Hour of the Wolf (w/Jim Kelly) (1997)
• Interview (1993)
• IMDB | ISFDB | Scifipedia | Wikipedia | Library Thing
• Find The Baum Plan in a library near you.

Publication history (TK)

Credits

• Cover art © Nathan Huang.
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