Everything that ought to be known about Robert Kelly can be found in his books, of which this is the fortieth.
From "The Court Painter":
How can I show you the truth of
anyone witout his face you ask?
The face is t...
In this collection of twenty-seven short and long stories (some very brief, one a novella), Robert Kelly once again conjures -- as previously in A Transparent Tree -- an array of imaginary realms that touch upon our own. These are fictions that proce...
The prince and heir to the throne of Fief Karcan investigates the crash of a "flying machine" in the Eastern Mountains, from whence it has been prophesiedthat a savior will come. Though he does not discover the pilot and "savior," the prince learns t...
“I’m on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.” So begins Robert Kelly’s remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. “I” is Billy, the book’s protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who ...
Four previous volumes of Robert Kelly's manifestly original fictions have been hailed as “exhilarating...full of signs and wonders”; in the New York Times Book Review, “sparking, multiform, yet indivisible” in American Book Review, and “tan...
11 Fish Friends is about young fish who are different colors, different sizes and different shapes. They learn to become friends, depend on each other and learn that they are not different at all. 11 Fish Friends is based on a true story about 11 f...