R. A. Lafferty

Past Master

Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers collects the following stories: Nine Hundred Grandmothers Land of the Great Horses Ginny Wrapped in the Sun The Six Fingers of Time Frog on the Mountain All the People Primary Education of the Camiroi Slow Tuesday Night Snuffles Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne Name of the Snake Narrow Valley Polity and Custom of the Camiroi In Our Block Hog-Belly Honey Seven Day Terror The Hole on the Corner What's the Name of that Town Through Other Eyes One at a Time Guesting Time

Nine Hundred Grandmothers

Fourth Mansions (Ace SF Special, 24590)

Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add

Michael Swanwick

The first in a series of collected short fiction of science fiction great R.A. Lafferty.

The Collected Short Fiction

The Man Who Made Models

Time is money. Time heals all wounds. Given time, anything is possible. And now he had all the time in the world!

The Six Fingers of Time

The Devil is Dead

The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty, Science Fiction, Adventure

Strange Doings

Flame Is Green

"It was the end of summer of the year 2035. The Global Village that was the World was ruled by a Kangaroo Court of Compassionate Aldermen who ordered assassinations when it was deemed to be for the common good. As a sign of their openness, they wre always experimenting to find new ways of looking at the World. Most of these experiments would fail; some of them would succeed to an extent; and others would succeed only too well, and so would have to be crushed in the shell for the good of the World. The Lynn-Randal Experiment raised three children together almost from infancy. Of these three, Lord randal was human (though somewhat enhanced and tampered with). Axel belonge to the gargoyle-faced 'Golden People' ("God believes they are the most beautiful creatures he ever made, ' a theologian said. 'and there will be hell to pay when he finds out that we don't agree'). And the third child was Inneal who often elicited the comment 'she's really something different, isn't she!' Yes, she was. All of these were super-mega-persons, which meant that they might be able to change the world itself. But why did they begin to change the Ocean first? When these three were just short of ten years old, they were merged with other children of three other experiments and formed with them a Magic Dozen. Immediately they began to have an astonishing effect on the World. And the fate of the children themselves hung in the balance. Was the experiment too successful? Was their effect on the World too dangerous? Would their group be, as other groups had been, adjudged to be a 'Serpent's Egg' that had to be crushed in the shell for the good of the World? The Three Days of Summerset, the End of Summer, would give the answer."--Page 4 of cover.

Serpent's Egg

Second volume of the complete short fiction of R.A. Lafferty, utilizing the author's original and preferred texts.

The Collected Short Stories of R.A. Lafferty Volume Two: The Man with the Aura

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

Ringing Changes

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.

Okla Hannali

Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty has been awarded and nominated for a multitude of accolades over the span of his career, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. 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.

The Best of R. A. Lafferty

Seven very special people blending to create a higher form of humanity... A laughing man living alone on a mountain top, guarding the world... The returnees, men who live again and again, century after century... A dog-ape plappergeist who can be seen only from the corner of the eye... And a young man named Foley, very much like you or me, who begins to find out about these people and these things, and how they are shaping the destiny of the world...

Fourth Mansions

SODOM AND GOMORRAH, TEXAS AND EIGHT MORE STORIES

Manuel shouldn't have been employed as a census taker. He wasn't qualified. He couldn't read a map. He didn't know what a map was. He only grinned when they told him that North was at the top. He knew better. But he did write a nice round hand, like a boy's hand. He knew Spanish, and enough English. For the sector that was assigned to him he would not need a map. He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker. Besides, he was poor and needed the money. They instructed him and sent him out. Or they thought that they had instructed him. They couldn't be sure. "Count everyone? All right. Fill in everyone? I need more papers." "We will give you more if you need more. But there aren't so many in your sector." "Lots of them. Lobos, tejones, zorros, even people."

Sodom and Gamorrah, Texas

Aurelia

"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].

R. A. Lafferty

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