Noel Gray: 15 books

A child’s fledgling imagination comes to his aid in making sense of the world he inhabits. Hiding From Time is the author’s third publication in the recent genre, Sotto Realism: subterranean realities that inhabit the imagination, fading away to little more than a whisper at the birth of each ordered, rational thought.

Fall Of The Ax Four prisoners are held in a concentration camp where they try to escape into their imaginations in response to the horrors they are unable to avoid. One prisoner narrates the imagined realities of the other three, as they all, one by one, finally succumb to the brutality of their captors.

Fy-Sy Fables Colonising Creativity A collection of stories about technology’s desire to be the master of creativity, and what results when it tries to take total control of this human trait. Fy-Sy Fables is the author’s second publication in the recent genre, Fy-Sy (Fictive-Science). As the name implies, the science in this genre is implausible, non-credible, and absurd.

The Dead Gondolier and other crimes of Venice A collection of twelve stories set in Venice and nearby islands. Each tale involves a different crime, and factual information about the city and its history are woven into every plot. The main character, Pio Scampi, is a Carabinieri officer who...

REALITIES The need to explain creation and all that followed is quite possibly the most enduring activity of thought. Throughout the history of western culture it has taken many forms, all of which have about them the air of universality, or at the very least, inevitability. Since the renaissance,...

The sole occupant in a mirage imagines his possible life, from infancy on to its distant end. The Prisoner of Fata Morgana is the author’s second publication in the recent genre, Sotto Realism: subterranean realities that inhabit the imagination, fading away to little more than a whisper at the birth of each ordered, rational thought.

Frog Legends In their ceaseless travels across the globe, two, moderately inebriated Frogs of Renown have inspired all whom they have met. From the Continent to Asia, and from the Americas to the British Isles, their exploits have literally become the stuff of legend.

War of the Web Book One: The Battle of the Clouds In the opening decades of the new millennium a startling fact emerges about the Internet. This revelation changes the entire history of humanity, and eventually leads to the world’s largest corporation trying to take complete control...

After capsule computers, tapeworms, had been swallowed by all Internet users, it became possible to determine in advance what Virtualists might in the future commit a crime against Virtuality. All those charged were prosecuted in The Court of Possibility; if found Probable, they were immediately stripped...

Word World The Adventures of Piano and Ditto A lonely child has only a dog-eared dictionary and a gilded-framed mirror to keep him company. Words are his only toys, the reflection in the mirror his only friend. In their company he sets out on a series of adventures, hoping one day to meet the Lord of all Dreamers. A story for lonely children.

**The Last Reverse Tale ** A collection of stories that trace the path of absurdity as it makes its way in the lives of several proto-rational human beings. The Last Reverse Tale is the author’s first publication in the recent genre, Sotto Realism: subterranean realities that inhabit...

EXITS The four essays in this collection revolve around a basic question: after the shocking and irredeemable acts of genocide in the mid-20th century, do we now live in the twilight of one of the main platforms that inform western philosophy? Has the Platonic legacy (and its influence on a wide range...

Certain ideas are axiomatic to navigating and defining existence. As necessary markers they are generally considered to be unproblematic in their everyday use and understanding. This is rightly so, because any unbridled and ceaseless challenge to their obvious necessity would result in a constantly...

I have not lived long enough to know all the ways of escaping poverty,  all the ways to leave that empty house, that desert of means, that so many are forced to live in after their birth. However, I do know that in such a house poetry is a window through which one may see a brighter landscape, one...