R.A. Lafferty Collections
From bizarre humor to sheer horror, the sixteen stories in this surprising book cover the entire range of fantasy. All are off-beat with the wry, playful unboundaried imagination that has gained R.A. Lafferty a steadily increasing following of delighted readers. Stories such as 'World Abounding', 'The Man with the Speckled Eyes', 'Entire and Perfect Chrysolite', 'Cliffs That Laughed', and the Hugo-contending 'Continued on Next Rock', reveal Lafferty penetrating to the zany realities of the human and inhuman condition. You will move through strange worlds of personality literally splitting itself, of nightmares coming true and preferred, of the perils of doubting and hazards of believing. And in each story you will move through the individual and beautiful styles of a master of the unexpected turn of phrase, idea and situation. Contents: Rainbird. Camels and Dromedaries, Clem. Continued on Next Rock. Once on Aranea. Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas. The Man with the Speckled Eyes. All But the Words. The Transcendent Tigers. World Abounding. Dream. Ride a Tin Can. Aloys. Entire and Perfect Chrysolite. Incased in Ancient Rind. The Ugly Sea. Cliffs That Laughed.
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further To Add? Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (16 stories): About a Secret CrocodileMad ManNor Limestone IslandsThe Man UnderneathBoomer FlatsThis Grand Carcass YetIn the GardenGroaning Hinges of the WorldGolden TrabantHow They Gave It BackMaybe Jones and the CitySeven Story DreamAdam Had Three BrothersPig in a PokeyThe Weirdest WorldThe Ultimate Creature
Collects science fiction stories dealing with weird creatures from outer space and the strange world of the future
Anthology by various authors, Fantasy
ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PRIVATE PRESS PAPERBACK - DRUMM Booklet #18 - Published in 1984 Table of The Man Who Made Models / I'll See It Done and Then I'll Die / The Effigy Histories / Of Laughter and the Love of Friends / Two For Four Ninety-Nine OVERALL FINE CONDITION ( some aging/toning to outer cover - otherwise very clean )
Drumm Booklet #19, 2/85, 1st, (never-before-published; 39 small-print pages), 4x7" stapled booklet,
There have always been the Twenty One Pillars of Rectitude who sustain the Seven Saints to insure the sanity of the world; Seven Technicians to insure its correct mechanical working; and Seven Scribbling Giants to write its scenarios and histories. The Saints and Technicians were always in plentiful supply. But not so the Scribbling Giants.So when Atrox Fabulinus, the greatest of the Scribbling Giants, was most foully murdered with his own nine-foot-long goose feather quill, the World staggered with the collapse of its most sustaining pillar. Then the remaining Scribbling Giants (all of them very old and tired) cried out for replacements so they could go to their restful deaths.This is the story of how the World, at the uneven changing of its supporting pillars, staggered and reeled.It is also the story of the Group of Twelve, an Group remarkable for its creativity and elegance, and how it set out to sustain the World in its new days of tottering terror.Whether the Group will be successful, indeed whether they have been successful, remains to be answered on the ninth day of the week, east of Laughter.
The stories contained in this volume demonstrate the unique and unpredictable imagination, style and vision that earned R.A. Lafferty the 1990 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Featuring a new introduction by Michael Kurland, the fifth volume of stories by R.A. Lafferty includes the titular story and such classic Lafferty stories as “Hands of the Man,” “Among the Hairy Earthmen,” and rare stories like “Ewe Lamb” and “How Many Miles to Babylon?”. This volume also includes an interview with Lafferty, never reprinted in book form.
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.