Questions tagged [lafferty]
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What story by Charles L. Harness is R. A. Lafferty alluding to here?
In the 1970 novelette "Animal Fair" by R. A. Lafferty he apparently alludes to some story by Charles L. Harness. What story is that? (And who was that "old Greek philosoph"?)
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Story ID: Lafferty? Conversation about a condensing/telescoping past
The thesis of the story: like our memory of history, actual history (past time) is telescoping, i.e., becoming shorter. The story is a conversation between characters musing on, e.g., the multiple ...
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Cover art on Lafferty's collection Nine Hundred Grandmothers
A three-breasted woman is depicted on the cover, by artists Leo and Diane Dillon, of the 1970 first edition of the R. A. Lafferty collection Nine Hundred Grandmothers. Was this cover inspired by a ...
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Reading order for the novels of R. A. Lafferty
I've listed below 13 of R. A. Lafferty's SF novels, omitting non-SF works such as Okla Hannali and The Fall of Rome, and limiting the list to works which are currently available at reasonable prices, ...
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