Kevin Kenerly

• Biography

  Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.

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• Praise for Books

  “A gripping, whimsical, and inventive collection! Couldn’t put it down.” —Jennifer Brody, award-winning author of A Sacrifice of Blood and Stars and The 13th Continuum

  “Harlan was not just a great fantasist and/or science fiction writer; he was a great writer, period.  When he was at the top of his form, from the late 60s through the 70s and well into the 80s, there was no finer short-story writer in all of English literature.”  —George R. R. Martin

  “Hawkins, introduced in Dudley’s debut New York Station (2018), is a man of conscience who comes to admire Mexico’s anti-Fascist atmosphere and its president, Lázaro Cárdenas, who was called by Trotsky the most honest politician in the world. With its historical basis and inclusion of historical figures, this is both enlightening and compelling spy fiction.” —Booklist

  “Timely, intense, and oddly sensual, Shadow Lab proves once again that science fiction is the genre of genres, the laboratory where all stories become reinvented for our time.” —In the Hills

  “You should buy this book immediately, because this is a book that knows perfectly that you are seething inside.” —Algis Budrys, winner of the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in Speculative Fiction

  “A multifaceted protagonist who’s a refreshing change from formulaic genre leads lifts this gritty spy thriller from Dudley…Fans of Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon will find familiar pleasures.” —Publishers Weekly on New York Station

  “[Will] resonate with readers in their heads and hearts, even as it hits them solidly in the gut. Sci-fi/horror mash-ups have been gaining in popularity, and this anthology provides a great overview of what readers can expect across this broad genre blend.” —Library Journal

  “In his stories of fantasy and horror, [Ellison] strikes closest to all those things that horrify and amuse us (sometimes both at the same time) in our present lives…Most of all, we sense outrage and anger—as with the best Ellison stories, we sense personal involvement, and have a feeling that Ellison is not so much telling the tale as he is jabbing it viciously out of its hiding place. It is the feeling that we are walking over a lot of jagged glass in thin shoes, or running across a minefield in the company of a lunatic.” —Stephen King

  “Categories are too small—even the catch-all category of science fiction—to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, one-line comedian, purveyor of pure horror and of black comedy; he is all these and more.” —Washington Post

  “A furiously prolific and cantankerous writer [who] looked at storytelling as a ‘holy chore,’ which he pursued zealously for more than sixty years. His output includes more than 1,700 short stories and articles, at least 100 books, and dozens of screenplays and television scripts…ranked with eminent science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.” —New York Times

  “Harlan Ellison was, after all, one of the most interesting humans on Earth. He was one of the greatest and most influential science fiction writers alive. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, lectured to college kids, visited with death row inmates, and once mailed a dead gopher to a publisher. Ellison brought a literary sensibility to sci-fi at a time when the entire establishment was allergic to any notion of art. To say he was one-of-a-kind would be trite, and he would likely hate that. What he was, was a legend.” —NPR

  “There’s a real power to the way he uses the language and how he draws pictures in your mind.” —Ron Moore

  “You see Ellison’s unswerving social conscience throughout his fiction and critical essays…forcefully and eloquently—and at some length—lamenting the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment and railing against the scourge of misogynistic ‘knife-kill’ films.” —RogerEbert.com

  “The words—there is an attention to the words. There is an attention to the sound of the words. You’re reading them in your head, and they sing.” —Neil Gaiman

  “The spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural  warehouse for a mind.” —New York Review of Books

  “Feisty, furious, yet extraordinarily kind and generous; Harlan Ellison was one of a kind.” —Leonard Maltin

  “Harlan Ellison—terrific prose, razor-sharp intellect, pulp gut punches and invention when needed, terse poetics…An original.” —Guillermo del Toro

  “An original and valuable writer…A twentieth-century Lewis Carroll.” —Los Angeles Times

  “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, stand aside. Harlan Ellison is now a better short-story writer than you will ever be again during the rest of your lives.” —Ray Bradbury

  “The incredible Harlan Ellison writes as if an inner fuse is about to blow before he can get all the words on his pages.” —Anne McCaffrey

  “He doesn’t write like anybody else. What emerges is a surprising, eclectic, almost protean series of visions, often disturbing, always strongly felt.” —Michael Crichton

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  • Shadow Lab

  • Edited by Brendan Deneen

    Stories by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Ed Cho, Rebecca Webb, Tom Radford, Nick Herbert, Marie Hoy-Kenny, and Brian Francis Slattery

    Read by Gary Tiedemann, Tim Lounibos, Soneela Nankani, Zura Johnson, January LaVoy, Natalie Naudus, and Kevin Kenerly

  • Release Date: 11/05/24

  • Formats: Hardcover

  In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.

  From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Hell Divers: The Lost Years. In the radioactive wastes of what was once known as Earth, a man and his dog fight nightmarish creatures in order to return to their home in the sky.

  In Clouds by Brian Francis Slattery, a happily married couple finds their relationship strained when they end up on opposite sides of a brewing conflict in the aftermath of the arrival of an alien species.

  In Her Eyes by Rebecca Webb tells the story of Addie, a woman who discovers a pair of eyeglasses that offer a portal into the minds of their previous owners. Soon her obsession with a reckless woman named Nima begins to change everything …

  These stories and more await the curious reader in Shadow Lab, a brand-new anthology from Blackstone Publishing.

  • Shadow Lab

  • Edited by Brendan Deneen

    Stories by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Ed Cho, Rebecca Webb, Tom Radford, Nick Herbert, Marie Hoy-Kenny, and Brian Francis Slattery

    Read by Gary Tiedemann, Tim Lounibos, Soneela Nankani, Zura Johnson, January LaVoy, Natalie Naudus, and Kevin Kenerly

  • Release Date: 11/05/24

  • Formats: Hardcover

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  • Again, Dangerous Visions

  • Edited by Harlan Ellison

    Stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and various authors

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 6/04/24

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.

  Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous Visions—the middle installment in a planned three anthology series—includes award-winning stories from incomparable writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz, and James Tiptree, among many others.

  Unprecedented and electrifying, Again, Dangerous Visions cemented Harlan Ellison’s legacy as the ultimate sci-fi anthologist.

  • Again, Dangerous Visions

  • Edited by Harlan Ellison

    Stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and various authors

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 6/04/24

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • Thriller

  • Edited by Don Bruns

    Stories by Don Bruns, Dahlia Rose, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Heather Graham, William Kent Krueger, Neil S. Plakcy, David R. Slayton, Rick Bleiweiss, and Jeffery Deaver

    Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, and Gary Tiedemann

  • Release Date: 7/11/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover

  From Beat It to Billie Jean, the songs we know and love take on a brand-new, thrilling connotation in this anthology edited by Don Bruns.

  In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes stories from Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, and David R. Slayton, among others.

  With poignant, frightening, and intriguing stories from some of the best writers in the genre, this eerie collection is sure to keep you up at night—and maybe even haunt your dreams.

  • Thriller

  • Edited by Don Bruns

    Stories by Don Bruns, Dahlia Rose, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Heather Graham, William Kent Krueger, Neil S. Plakcy, David R. Slayton, Rick Bleiweiss, and Jeffery Deaver

    Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, and Gary Tiedemann

  • Release Date: 7/11/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover

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  • The Hungry Blade

  • By Lawrence Dudley

    Read by Kevin Kenerly

  • Release Date: 1/21/20

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Trade Print ARC

  The new, fast-paced, WWII-era spy thriller from the author of New York Station

  Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters sixteen months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create cash for their covert operations. But how to prove it?

  There’s only one man for the job—Roy Hawkins. The British Secret Intelligence Service has put their half-American star agent in tough spots before and he’s always come out on top. But this time Hawkins is headed to Mexico, where the vibrant art scene and tight-knit German expatriate community obscure the paintings’ ultimate purpose. As he tracks the art from Veracruz to Mexico City, Hawkins struggles to see the Nazis’ endgame. For the first time, he doesn’t speak the language and he doesn’t know the players—but he does know how to fight Fascists. Problem is, in the “get along and go along” culture of wartime profiteering, distinguishing between the true believers and the opportunists is no easy task.

  Can Hawkins untangle the false leads and double crosses before the Nazis realize their sinister plan?

  • The Hungry Blade

  • By Lawrence Dudley

    Read by Kevin Kenerly

  • Release Date: 1/21/20

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Trade Print ARC

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