Matthew Kressel

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • The Bricks of Gelecek

    in Naked City

    Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hot...

  • The Last Novelist

    "The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" by Matthew Kressel is a science fiction story about a dying writer who is trying to finish one final novel on the distant planet he settles on for his demise. His encounter with a young girl trigg...

  • Queen of Static

    Following the events of King of Shards, both humans and demons continue their quest to control the Lamed Vavnik, the thirty-six righteous men who sustain the Earth against the persistent hunger of the twisted creatures who inhabit the Shards, the bro...

  • One Spring in Cherryville

    Mitch and his friends live in Cherryville, a rust-belt American town that has gone to seed. One day, while exploring an old, abandoned factory, Mitch and his friends discover a buried secret that just might change their lives forever. But in Cherryvi...

  • The King of Shards

    Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of shattered universes: the Shards. Populated with vengeful demons and tormented humans, the Shards need Earth to survive just as plants need water. Earth itself is kept alive by 36 righte...

  • The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye

    As the Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye wandered the galaxy harvesting dead stars, they liked to talk...

    Thus begins the epic 2015 Nebula Award Short Story Finalist “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel, a galactic-s...

  • The Sounds of Old Earth

    Earth has grown quiet since everyone’s shipped off to the new one. I walk New Paltz’s empty streets with an ox-mask tight about my face. An acidic rain mists my body, and a thick fog obscures the vac-sealed storefronts. Last week they hauled t...

  • The Singularity is in Your Hair

    In virtual reality, she builds fantastic digital worlds for high-paying clients. In real life, she has a severe form of muscular dystrophy that keeps her chained to a wheelchair. But not for long. Ashey, her VR agent and rogue AI, has big plans f...

  • The History Within Us

    From three-time Nebula Award finalist Matthew Kressel comes this haunting science fiction tale. In a galaxy obliterated by war Betsy Haadama is the last human alive. She sits aboard an Eluder Ship waiting with many different species of aliens who all...



  • Saving Diego

    After a falling out, two estranged friends who meet again on the distant plant of Gilder Nefan, a place where the religious folk smoke a psychotropic drug called sweet jisthmus to reach transcendent states of consciousness in order to communicat...

  • Now We Paint Worlds

    Matthew Kressel's "Now We Paint Worlds" is a space operatic Tor.com Original short story.Orna, a representative of a universe-wide trade union, undergoes a drastic change in perspective while investigating the disappearance of three planets and their...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matthew Kressel has published 11 books.

Matthew Kressel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Now We Paint Worlds, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Matthew Kressel, The Bricks of Gelecek, was published in July 2011.

No. Matthew Kressel does not write books in series.
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