The Best Of R A Lafferty

Author : R.A. Lafferty
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250778680

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The Best of R. A. Lafferty by R.A. Lafferty Pdf

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.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781880448977

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Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

"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

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598536478

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Past Master by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

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.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015010232422

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Strange Doings by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441011330

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Masterpieces by Orson Scott Card Pdf

A collection of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card. Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov • Arthur C. Clarke • Robert A. Heinlein • Ursula K. Le Guin • Ray Bradbury • Frederik Pohl • Harlan Ellison • George Alec Effinger • Brian W. Aldiss • William Gibson & Michael Swanwick • Theodore Sturgeon • Larry Niven • Robert Silverberg • Harry Turtledove • James Blish • George R. R. Martin • James Patrick Kelly • Karen Joy Fowler • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • Terry Bisson • Poul Anderson • John Kessel • R.A. Lafferty • C.J. Cherryh • Lisa Goldstein • Edmond Hamilton In much of the science fiction of the past, the twenty-first century existed only in the writers’ imaginations. Now that it’s here, it’s time to take a look back at the last one hundred years in science fiction through the works of the most celebrated and acclaimed authors of the century—to see where we’ve been and just how far we’ve come. Along with a critical essay by Orson Scott Card reassessing science fiction in the twentieth century, Masterpieces includes short fiction by writers who have forged a permanent place for science fiction in the popular culture of today...and tomorrow. It offers a glimpse of the greatest works that mixed science with fiction in trying to figure out humanity’s place in the universe. Featuring bold, brave, and breathtaking stories, this definitive collection will stand the test of time in both this century and those to come.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781880448922

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Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1880448963

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Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952438974

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Adam Had Three Brothers by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

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.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473213463

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The Devil Is Dead by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

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...

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806123494

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Okla Hannali by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

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.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859517

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Modern Classics of Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois Pdf

Brian Aldiss William Gibson R.A. Lafferty Ursula K. Le Guin Lucius Shepard Bruce Sterling Theodore Sturgeon Howard Waldrop Connie Willis Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny "The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."

Author : Harry Turtledove,Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345481900

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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove,Martin H. Greenberg Pdf

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST H. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told, including “Time’s Arrow” In Arthur C. Clarke’s classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel—with appalling consequences. “Death Ship” Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time, unveils a chilling scenario concerning three astronauts who stumble upon the conundrum of past and future. “Yesterday was Monday” If all the world’s a stage, Theodore Sturgeon’s compelling tale follows the odyssey of an ordinary joe who winds up backstage. “Rainbird” R.A. Lafferty reflects on what might have been in this brainteaser about an inventor so brilliant that he invents himself right out of existence. “Timetipping” What if everyone time-traveled except you? Jack Dann provides some surprising answers in this literary gem. . . . as well as stories by Poul Anderson • L. Sprague de Camp • Joe Haldeman • John Kessel • Nancy Kress • Henry Kuttner • Ursula K. Le Guin • Larry Niven • Charles Sheffield • Robert Silverberg • Connie Willis By turns frightening, puzzling, and fantastic, these stories engage us in situations that may one day break free of the bonds of fantasy . . . to enter the realm of the future: our future. Note: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury and "I'm Scared" by Jack Finney are not included in this edition.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441726070

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Ringing Changes by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Collects science fiction stories dealing with weird creatures from outer space and the strange world of the future

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473213579

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Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Set in the far future, Space Chantey chronicles the adventures of Space Captain Roadstrum and his crew, on a journey through galaxies resonant with myth and peril as Roadstrum valiantly battles to return across the cosmos to Big Tulsa, the Capital of the World, and to his wife and young son Tele-Max.

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473213647

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Apocalypses by R. A. Lafferty Pdf

Two novellas by an author who has earned a reputation for original and imaginative writing, with a spark-bladed humour that is unlike anything ever written. Contents: Where have You been Sandaliotis? The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeney