{"product_id":"the-baum-plan-for-financial-independence-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Kessel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePride and Prometheus, a story in \u003cb\u003eThe Baum Plan for Financial Independence\u003c\/b\u003e involving characters from Jane Austen's \u003cb\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/b\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cb\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/b\u003e, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA long-awaited collection of fourteen stories that intersect imaginatively with \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e, and Flannery O'Connor. Kessel, whose story A Clean Escape was filmed as part of ABC's \u003ci\u003eMasters of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, ranges through genres with a lean, graceful style that incorporates everything from future autobiography, alternate history, phone sex, perpetual motion, and his modern classic sequence of four stories about life on the moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first collection in a decade, Kessel jumps from place to place like a jolty time machine. In Pride and Prometheus, Frankenstein and Jane Austen intersect in an uncanny Victorian tale of unrequited love, while A Lunar Quartet introduces a matriarchal, hypersexual moon colony in the future. But as a group, these stories offer 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-\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who thinks genre writing can't be literary deserves to have Kessel's hefty new collection of stories dropped on his or her head.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTime Out Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark, wacky, wide-ranging short stories.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pleasant callback to the days when science-fiction authors read more than just science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKessel's blend of dark humor and reality-stretching scenarios is consistently mesmerizing.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKessel proves himself again a master not just of science fiction, but also of the modern short story, crafting compelling characters and following them through plots that never fail to please--or to defy prediction.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMetro Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the best collections of the year.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKessel is a deft stylist and a master of all his tools, whose range is nearly limitless.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSciFi.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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.\u003cbr\u003e--Rich Rennicks, Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvest. Invest now.... Your returns will be multitudinous.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Fix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Kessel\u003c\/b\u003e co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, his books include \u003ci\u003eGood News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Pure Product, \u003c\/i\u003eand story collection, \u003ci\u003eMeeting in Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e (a\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book).\u003cbr\u003e Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he edited the anthologies \u003ci\u003eFeeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of Science Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Kessel's stories have won the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree Awards. His books include Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and collections The Pure Product and Meeting in Infinity (a New York Times Notable Book). Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, NC, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 315\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.45 x 5.79 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769981796640,"sku":"9781931520508","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c1af2f30c9adf24a91ea3a7ce36a25f3.webp?v=1780361739","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-baum-plan-for-financial-independence-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}