I have total freedom to do whatever I want to do, but at this point in time I am enjailed in a pokey or slammer in BoondocksnewJersey. — “The Wheel and the Shoosh” (unfinished draft) Lafferty was extremely good at getting the most out of his drafted material and ideas. Almost everything gets used. Over the twenty-plus years of his long life, when he turned out the corpus, it seems he made it work. There are the unwritten story ideas, like “Brainworld” mentioned in the last po

"There's a piece here on Pete Teilhard putting him into context as a talented science fiction writer with a talent for outré burlesque. The Brainworld Motif was overworked when he tackled it, but what a shaggy comic extravaganza he did make of it! And there's Muldoom, Zielinski, Popper, Gander, Aichinger, Whitecrow, Hornwhanger—we owe so much to the juice of the cultists! In the main line there are whole congeries and continents of great novels and novelists." — "Thus We Frus