By the numbers, James Patrick Kelly has won two Hugo Awards, a Nebula and a Locus award and his fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. A collection of his robot and AI stories, The Book Of Bots, will be published next month by Fairwood Press. It includes two original essays about AI. His most recent publications are a short story, “No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always!” last month in Reactor and a novelette “Je Ne Regrette Rien” in January’s Clarkesworld. His novella “Moon And Mars” was the cover story of the December 2025 Asimov’s. His most recent books are The First Law of of Thermodynamics Plus (2021), a collection in PM Press’s Outspoken Author series edited by Terry Bisson and King Of The Dogs, Queen Of The Cats (2020), a novella from Subterranean Press.
Jim’s plays have had productions in New York, Chicago and Honolulu among other venues and his award-winning novelette, “Think Like A Dinosaur” was adapted for the television anthology series, Outer Limits. He has narrated fifty-two of his own stories for Audible.com as part of its StoryPod project. With John Kessel, he has co-edited five anthologies, including Rewired, the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and Digital Rapture, the Singularity Anthology. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. For the past year he has been giving a program for the New Hampshire Humanities Council called “Welcome Our Robot Overlords” in libraries around the Granite State. Find him on the web at www.jimkelly.net.