The Best of R. A. Lafferty

Author: R.A. Lafferty
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250778689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, and Gene Wolfe. The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of offbeat imagination, ranging from classics like “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” and “The Primary Education of the Cameroi” to his Hugo Award-winning “Eurema’s Dam.” Introduced by Neil Gaiman, the volume also contains story introductions and afterwords by, among many others, Michael Dirda, Samuel R. Delany, John Scalzi, Connie Willis, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Robson, Harlan Ellison, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, and Patton Oswalt. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nine Hundred Grandmothers

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1880448971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
"Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: a man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world; a race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements; a speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night; a friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God ... In all, twenty-one immensely enjoyable stories that will continue to delight you long after you've finished reading them."--Page 1

Past Master

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty “a genius, an oddball, a madman”; Gene Wolfe calls him “our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.

Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1880448920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Adam Had Three Brothers

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1952438977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
Adam had three brothers, named Etienne, Yancy, and Rreq. This story is about the descendeds of Req, or as they’re better known the Wrecks. R. A. Lafferty. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today’s best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.

Okla Hannali

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123493
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the history of the Choctaw Indians and their removal from Mississippi to what is now southern Oklahoma, as seen from the perspective of Okla Hannali, a Choctaw giant in the tradition of Paul Bunyan, who had a reputation as a farmer, fiddler, blacksmith, philosopher, and jack of many trades.

Fourth Mansions

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781880448960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Strange Doings

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The Devil Is Dead

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473213460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
In The Devil is Dead, Lafferty tells of an astonishing band of adventurers seeking the Devil himself. It is a tale of demons and changelings, monsters and mermaids - and of how it is not always serious to die, the first time it happens...

The Reefs of Earth

Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978621025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
The Dulanty family can pass for human, but they're actually alien Pucas, stranded on the remote backwater planet Earth in the tiny (and corrupt) Appalachian town of Lost Haven. The six Dulanty children (seven, if you count the disembodied Bad John) get tired of being spurned, scorned, and scapegoated by the townsfolk, and hit upon the obvious solution: they'll murder every human in the world, using hatchets, rifles, and the otherworldly killing verses known as Bagarthach, and transform the planet into a paradise for the Dulantys alone. Fortunately for the human race, the Dulanty children aren't very adept at murder, but their attempts at wholesale homicide make for a read that's alternately harrowing, hilarious, and heartwarming. Come visit the Reefs of Earth, and experience the incomparable imagination of visionary author R.A. Lafferty, a writer Jo Walton called "very weird, very clever, and impossible to forget." Praise for R.A. Lafferty R.A. Lafferty was a genius, an oddball, a madman. His stories are without precedent. -Neil Gaiman Bold, literary, and profoundly weird. -Michael Swanwick What a word slinger: what a richness of idea and image, in Irish-cadenced prose! Show don't tell? The pleasure's in the telling. -Terry Bisson Lafferty is one of a kind, a magician of strange images made fleetingly recognizable, of familiar emotions made strange and new and haunting. -Nancy Kress