Kelly Link





Kelly Link

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Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969. Her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: sometimes a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.


Average rating: 3.80 · 34,688 ratings · 4,634 reviews · 19 distinct works · Similar authors
Magic for Beginners
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,445 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
Stranger Things Happen
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,436 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
Pretty Monsters: Stories
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions
Steampunk! An Anthology of ...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,488 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
The Best of Lady Churchill'...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
Trampoline: An Anthology
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2003
Stone Animals
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012
The Wrong Grave
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009
Pretty Monsters
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
Fel grav och andra berättelser
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012
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“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits.”
Kelly Link

“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”
Kelly Link

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”
Kelly Link

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