The best of R. A. Lafferty /

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, F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lafferty, R. A. (Author)
Other Authors: Strahan, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tom Doherty Associates, [2021]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Not to mention R.A. Lafferty: a personal introduction / Neil Gaiman
  • Slow Tuesday night / introduction by Michael Dirda
  • Narrow valley / introduction by Michael Swanwick
  • Nor limestone islands / introduction by Michael Bishop
  • Interurban queen / introduction by Terry Bisson
  • Thus we frustrate Charlemagne / introduction by Jack Dann
  • In our block / introduction by Neil Gaiman
  • Ride a tin can / introduction Neil Gaiman
  • Nine hundred grandmothers / introduction by Patton Oswalt ; afterword by Andy Duncan
  • Land of the great horses / introduction by Harlan Ellison ; afterword by Gregory Frost
  • Eurema's dam / introduction by Robert Silverberg
  • Selenium ghosts of the eighteen seventies / introduction by Kelly Robson
  • The primary education of the Camiroi / introduction by Samuel R. Delany
  • Continued on next rock / introduction by Nancy Kress ; afterword by R.A. Lafferty
  • Sky / introduction by Gwenda Bond
  • Cliffs that laughed / introduction by Gregory Feeley
  • Seven-day terror / introduction by Connie Willis
  • Boomer Flats / introduction by Cat Rambo
  • Old foot forgot / introduction by John Scalzi
  • The world as will and wallpaper / introduction by Samuel R. Delany
  • Funnyfingers / introduction by Andrew Ferguson
  • Thieving bear planet / introduction by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Days of grass, days of straw / introduction by Gary K. Wolfe.