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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1977
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 13 titles




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  • 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 ...



  • This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly’s early novel abo...






  • 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...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Kelly has published 13 books.

Robert Kelly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Collected Stories of Robert Kelly, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Robert Kelly, The Mill of Particulars, was published in June 1977.

No. Robert Kelly does not write books in series.