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Matthew Kres­sel

Matthew Kres­sel is the author of the Jew­ish-themed fan­ta­sy epic King of Shards. He is a pro­lif­ic writer of short fic­tion, his works appear­ing in the pub­li­ca­tions Clarkesworld, Light­speed, Night­mare, io9​.com, Inter­zone, Apex Mag­a­zine, the antholo­gies Naked City, The Peo­ple of the Book, After, and else­where. He is the co-host of the Fan­tas­tic Fic­tion at KGB read­ing series in Man­hat­tan with Ellen Dat­low, and he is (slow­ly) learn­ing the Yid­dish lan­guage. By day he writes code for cor­po­ra­tions and universities. 

Short­en­ing the Way

Sur­viv­ing Leonard Nimoy’s Super­hu­man Salute

Golem Sto­ries, from Mys­ti­cism to Fic­tion to the Realm of Plausibility

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Essay

Golem Sto­ries, from Mys­ti­cism to Fic­tion to the Realm of Plausibility

Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Kres­sel explored the Jew­ish sources under­ly­ing Leonard Nimoy’s Vul­can salute and fan­ta­sy literature’s great­est time-trav­el­ing epics. He is…
Matthew Kres­sel
April 1, 2016
Essay

Sur­viv­ing Leonard Nimoy’s Super­hu­man Salute

Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Kres­sel explored the Jew­ish sources under­ly­ing fan­ta­sy literature’s great­est time-trav­el­ing epics. He is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish…
Matthew Kres­sel
March 30, 2016
Essay

Short­en­ing the Way

Matthew Kres­sel is the author of the Jew­ish-themed fan­ta­sy epic King of Shards. He is guest blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
Matthew Kres­sel
March 28, 2016
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