Paul Xylinides: 6 books

When bad-tempered Humpetty Dumpetty comes to town, he blocks out the sun and soon everyone falls asleep and enters a world of dreams. Everyone, that is, except for himself. He stays awake while everyone sleeps around him. One of their dreams makes him especially angry and so, feeling sorry for himself, he goes and sits on a wall …

Who rides the giant butterflies must certainly win the battle or so thinks the Lord of the Tower until something muddy below rises on high and buries even his tower.“Remember, my child, imaginary days don’t grow beneath trees - you have to climb up and pluck them.”

The little old lady wants one pink gift after another, but then everything pink in Gabrielle's world vanishes and it becomes necessary to do something about it - with a lot of help from the Man in the Chair."Remember, my child, imaginary days don't grow beneath trees - you have to climb up and pluck them."

Sometimes the truth is unbearable. Illusion, for awhile, is preferable. Such is the calculation that the young writer makes for those whom he does not wish to damage. Sparagmos, meaning the dismemberment of a victim, is intended in this memoir to apply in the original Greek sense of “tearing apart”...

The Blade Runner Amendment draws upon once deviant human behaviour and the state of present-day human robotics and looks to society in the year 2040. The government has legislated against replicant bio-engineering and Virgil Woolf enjoys a cozy life with his old-line humanoid. Synthetic companionship...

A modernizing American has assumed the papal throne. One of His first acts is to select a seventeenth century priest for canonization. The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints recoils in horror at the new pontiff’s choice. Against a backdrop of Vatican intrigue and infighting, a long-unsolved...