R. A. Lafferty
By the Author
The Best of R. A. Lafferty
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…
R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels
Acclaimed, as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty drew more from traditional oral storytelling techniques than from the usual…
The Flame Is Green
Let us say that we have a green thing growing forever. Everything that is done is done by it. And on it we also have…
Half a Sky
A constellation of persons or events will have precedent. It will not appear out of nothing; it's a converging of previous trails and persons. Before…
The Fall of Rome
The fall of the Roman Empire was the denouement of a long and dramatic confrontation between powerful ideological forces and legendary men. R. A. Lafferty…
Lafferty in Orbit
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…
Aurelia
Aurelia was a fifteen-year-old girl from a very advanced world. She'd passed Starship building easily enough, but she'd slept through most of celestial navigation. That…
The Devil Is Dead
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,…
The Reefs of Earth
In The Reefs of Earth, Lafferty's first-completed novel, a passel of Alien children bumptiously attempt to rid Earth of humans.
Serpent’s Egg
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…
Annals of Klepsis
OH COME TO KLEPSIS TO CLAIM YOUR SHARE ... AND BREATHE THE RANK AND LAWLESS AIR! Plots and intrigues and romances abound. Smoke pictures, ghosts…
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
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…
Space Chantey
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…
Not To Mention Camels
Three memorable creatures world jump in a meta-cosmic universe that orbits with nightmarish landscapes that thrive on anti-matter, anti-space, and anti-time. What mind and body…
East of Laughter
There have always been the Twenty One Pillars of Rectitude who sustain the World: Seven Saints to insure the sanity of the world; Seven Technicians…
Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage
As Harun lay dying here on Kentauron Mikron, all untimely, still in his golden youth, he whispered a word to me that he would use…
Arrive at Easterwine
'This, I believe, is the first autobiography of a machine,' writes Epikt, a Ktistec machine. In the resulting mindbending, at times hilarious, work of the…
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?
Sixteen stories about secret places and mean men, containing: About a Secret Crocodile Mad Man Nor Limestone Islands The Man Underneath Boomer Flats This Grand…
Past Master
The golden planet of Astrobe, made in the image of Utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy it forever; and yet, no one could…
Apocalypses
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.…
Fourth Mansions
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…