The First Law of Thermodynamics

"A quintessentially protean writer; no single adjective suffices for the whole. . . . I continue to be regularly surprised by where he goes and what he's doing with his fiction."
--Karen Joy Fowler

"He changes our attitudes and our perceptions and even our understanding of what the short story can be, and he does it in stories which are disturbing, clever, affecting, funny and unique in every sense of the word."
--Connie Willis

"Kelly's special genius is in writing stories that are so human that they wrench and warm your heart at the same moment."
--Cory Doctorow

"James Patrick Kelly has written some of my very favorite short stories. As a matter of fact, I get anxious when I haven't read a Kelly story in a while. Can't we just clone him?"
--Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

"Against all law and likelihood, (he goes on) reinventing himself each time out, always questioning the basic premise of what a science fiction story can be, or a James Patrick Kelly story, or a story in the first place."
--Jonathan Lethem