Worlds of Paul Jessup

All the various venues that showcase my writing. From books to magazines, if you need your latest Paul Jessup fix, this is where to get it.

It’s a weird, bizarre. fun little 60’s style tube-punk story with a hefty dose of outer space, inner space and fightin’.
http://www.sensesfive.com/2009/06/07/heavens-fire-by-paul-jessup/

Jeff Vandermeer talks about the anthology [here]. I participated, and it looks like an awesome line up of some awesome surrealistic short stories. And it’s published by Wyrm Books/Ministry of Whimsy, so you know it’s made of win.

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Got an awesome story coming up in SG #6, called Heaven’s Fire. It’s a play on 60’s/70’s era science fiction, cults, and a revolution. It’s got references to Bob Dylan, robots running on Vacuum Tubes and Microwave Rifles. Fun, fun, fun stuff.

Is now live at Fantasy Magazine!  Check it out here:
http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/?p=1507
For all sorts of weird piratey goodness. Here is an excerpt, to wet your appetite:
The candle in the sky warmed their skin, making their vellum bones all too crisp . These were the Water Colored Tropics, far south from the harsh and acrylic snowlands that her [...]

Yup, go check it out. This is one of my favorite articles I’ve written for them Basically, it’s an autobiographical splurging of my love for all things 8bit/16bit and RPG:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20081201/0jessup-a.shtml
Ah, childhood.

I’ve decided to post a short story of mine for free online. This was originally published in Electric Velocipede 12, and is called The Alchemy of War. This story is the first part of the Silas Bay triptych, along with Ghosts We Have Become and The Sea of Dead Around Her. Involves a bombing of [...]

The Sea of Dead Around Her
Published in PostScripts #16
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This story is the sequel to issue #14’s critically acclaimed The Ghosts We Have Become. Takes place directly after the events in both EV’s The Alchemy of War and The Ghosts We Have Become this story explores what its like to survive after [...]

I’ve decided to post a short story of mine for free online. This was originally published in PostScripts issue 12, and is called Ghost Technology From the Sun. It was a very well received short story (was an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and had positive reviews). It is a [...]

And is guest edited by the always amazing, Jonathan Wood.  This one is based on the tarot, and has a short short by me in it called The Tower.  Its kind of based on two cards at once, the tower and the moon. It’s got some great fiction by some other cool authors, so you [...]

This is a crevice book . . . a shadow volume whose pages were written in the cracks of ancient cities and long since forgotten. Nine stories, nine shadows . . . words tattooed on skin, locked in towers, frozen under glass and sleeping with apple hearts, refusing to be defined. They are carved of [...]