John Kessel is a prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and the occasional novel. He has won the Nebula award in 1982 for the novella "Another Orphan" and again in 2008 for the novelette "Pride and Prometheus".
He has also won the Locus award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Paul Green Playwrights' Prize. John Kessel is also a widely published critic, his most notable work being the 2004 essay on Orson Scott Card's Enders Game.
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"