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Robert Kelly


The Book from the Sky

The Book from the Sky

Robert Kelly

"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 take him to a cave and meticulously, if seemingly by caprice, remove his "young pure smokeless lungs" and other internal organs to replace them with two gray squirrels, a live hawk, a shoe, and a variety of other bizarre objects. Billy's body and mind are spun off into a curious twin, one whose adventures Billy is forced by his captors to watch and try to make sense of--not a simple task when he sees his doppelgänger stealing everything from him: body, name, family, his beloved Eileen. Complicating matters, and forcing Billy deeper into his ironic journey of self, is a mysterious pamphlet called "The Book from the Sky," written by what may be yet another variation of Billy himself, Brother William.

This stunningly imaginative work, echoing the late novels of Iris Murdoch and the fantasies of Robert Charles Wilson and Jonathan Stroud while remaining inimitably Kelly's own, offers adventurous readers a "cabinet of wonders" not unlike the body of his beleaguered young hero.

The Logic of the World

The Logic of the World

Robert Kelly

This short story originally appeared in Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realities (2009), edited by Brian Evenson and Bradford Morrow. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010, edited by Rich Horton.

The Scorpions

The Scorpions

Robert Kelly

This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s 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 about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.

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