Kelly Link




Kelly Link

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female

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The United States

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Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror


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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.




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avg rating: 3.90 | 5,269 ratings | 985 reviews | 27 distinct works | 56 fans
Magic for Beginners Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
avg rating 4.06 — 1,081 ratings — published 2005
6 editions
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury o... McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
by Michael Chabon (editor / contributor), Jim Shepard, Elmore Leonard, Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) , Michael Crichton, Nick Hornby, Laurie R. King (Goodreads author) more...
avg rating 3.53 — 897 ratings — published 2003
4 editions
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Stranger Things Happen: Storie... Stranger Things Happen: Stories
by Kelly Link
avg rating 4.13 — 836 ratings — published 2001
2 editions
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Pretty Monsters: Stories Pretty Monsters: Stories
by Kelly Link, Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
avg rating 3.98 — 481 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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Firebirds Rising: An Original... Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Sharyn November (Editor), Diana Wynne Jones (contributor), Ellen Klages (contributor), Sharon Shinn (contributor), Patricia A. McKillip (contributor), Emma Bull (Goodreads author) (contributor), Kelly Link (contributor), Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) (contributor) more...
avg rating 3.93 — 287 ratings — published 2006
4 editions
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the... The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Holly Black (Contributor), Bruce Glassco (Contributor), Ellen Steiber (Contributor), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Contributor), Patricia A. McKillip (Contributor), Gregory Maguire (Contributor) more...
avg rating 4.04 — 269 ratings — published 2004
3 editions
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The Living Dead The Living Dead
by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads author) (Editor), Joe Hill, George R.R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) , Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe R. Lansdale, Poppy Z. Brite more...
avg rating 3.75 — 318 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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Geektastic: Stories from the N... Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
by Holly Black (Editor), Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads author) (Editor), M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga more...
avg rating 3.84 — 259 ratings — published 2009
3 editions
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The Coyote Road: Trickster Tal... The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
by Ellen Datlow (editor), Steve Berman (contributor), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (contributor), Ellen Klages (contributor), Delia Sherman (contributor), Patricia A. McKillip (contributor), Terri Windling (editor /introduction), Richard Bowes (contributor) more...
avg rating 3.88 — 110 ratings — published 2007
3 editions
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The Restless Dead The Restless Dead
by Deborah Noyes (Goodreads author) (Editor), Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Chris Wooding, Marcus Sedgwick, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, Holly Black more...
avg rating 3.52 — 95 ratings — published 2007
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The Best of Lady Churchill's R... The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet: Occasional Outbursts
by Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads author) (Editor), Kelly Link (Editor)
avg rating 4.13 — 79 ratings — published 2007
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Ho... The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads author) (Editor), Kelly Link (Editor)
avg rating 3.91 — 67 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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The Starry Rift The Starry Rift
by Jonathan Strahan (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) , Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ann Halam, Paul J. McAuley, Margo Lanagan, Ian McDonald, Garth Nix more...
avg rating 3.80 — 64 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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Trampoline: An Anthology Trampoline: An Anthology
by Kelly Link (Editor)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2003
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Pretty Monsters Pretty Monsters
by Kelly Link
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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The Best of Lady Churchill's R... The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
by Kelly Link, Gavin Grant
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007
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Authors@Google: Kelly Link and Karen Joy Fowler
 
Authors@Google: Kelly Link and Karen Joy Fowler
Kelly LinkMagic for Beginners
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Kelly Link and Karen Joy Fowler speak at Google as part of the Authors@Google series.
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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."
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"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."
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"You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place."
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