Planet of Whispers [Hardcover]

James P. Kelly (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Bluejay Books; 1st edition (August 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312943695
• ISBN-13: 978-0312943691
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,998,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Patrick Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His most recent writing project is James Patrick Kelly's Strangeways, a series of ebooks for Kindle featuring some of his best stories. His short novel Burn won the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette "Think Like A Dinosaur" and in 2000, for his novelette, "Ten to the Sixteenth to One." His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. With John Kessel he is co-editor of Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, The Secret History Of Science Fiction, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology and Rewired: The Post Cyberpunk Anthology. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the Board of Directors of the Clarion Foundation. He produces two podcasts: James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod on Audible and the Free Reads Podcast. His website is www.jimkelly.net.

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice try at all alien story., December 21, 1998

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This review is from: Planet of Whispers (Hardcover)

Despite what you might think science fiction tends to avoid writing about aliens. Stories like this that lack human characters are almost more common in film. In fact the dark crystal is the best all alien story I know of & it's a movie. The Encyclopedia of sf makes it sound better than it is. It is okay though. Like Howard Waldrop, & a few others Kelly is primarily a short story writer so that might explain why it's just okay.