
The Best of R. A. Lafferty
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This collection contains 22 unique tall tales, including:
Hugo Award-winning
'Eurema's Dam' - introduced by Robert Silverberg
Hugo Award-nominated
'Continued on the Next Rock' - introduced by Nancy Kress
'Sky' - introduced by Gwenda Bond
Nebula Award-nominated
'In Our Block' - introduced by Neil Gaiman
And more stories introduced by other modern masters of SF who acknowledge
R.A. Lafferty as a major influence and force in the field.
Reviews / Votes
There's nothing close to Lafferty - nobody with the gravitas about things that were light, and the antigravitas about important heavy things - Neil GaimanThe most important science fiction writer you've never heard of - Guardian
Lafferty has the power which sets fire behind your eyeballs - Roger Zelazny
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Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer born in Neola, Iowa. His first publication of genre interest was 'Day of the Glacier' with Science Fiction Stories in January 1960, although he continued to work in the electrical business until retiring to write full-time in 1970. Over the course of his writing career, Lafferty wrote thirty-two novels and more than two hundred short stories and he was known for his original use of language, metaphor and narrative structure.
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