Advanced Lafferty. “World Abounding” is one of those really hard Lafferty stories. he believes this), but that Blue-Fish is really myself with the scales still on his eyes and on his whole Lafferty has it on his mind. That is the question Lafferty is always asking. Matrona and Ancilla moons are part of Lafferty’s mother-parthen complex, a curious aspect of Lafferty

It’s also an excellent place to look for a Lafferty reading list. VII, which was published three years after Lafferty’s first draft. Even so, I have no doubt that Lafferty knew about Meinong. Lafferty is playing with ideas, not with archetypes. , one of the most melancholy images in Lafferty.

“Day of the Glacier” was Lafferty’s first published science fiction story. Throughout, there are many small Easter Eggs about ice ages, a topic that fascinated Lafferty. In this first science fiction story in print by Lafferty, we have something that is not quite satire This deprioritization of death’s seriousness is, of course, one of Lafferty’s signatures, as is Eimer One antidote, as Lafferty keeps saying throughout his work, is good-natured humor.

title was the superior "Needle") is one of Lafferty's two stories about a funny group of children, the Its main character, the seven-year-old and gloriously amoral Carnadine Thompson, is one of Lafferty’s And on that whole world I found only one person with perfect assurance—one impervious to doubt of any Lafferty knew his pre-Socratics, and I suspect he chose Anaximander (under the variant Anaximandros) It is a Lafferty nightmare world.

Lafferty once did just that. As a child, Lafferty struggled to speak straight. Like Albert, Lafferty had “abominable handwriting” (Lafferty was left-handed, but the sisters made him Lafferty once said, “I was very awkward and shy, then. Of course, unlike Albert, Lafferty built stories.

One of Lafferty's best stories is one of his earliest, “Ghost in the Corn Crib.” It is told with Lafferty’s best humor. And there is the legend of John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) behind the whole Confederate Captain encounter So what has Lafferty done? And here is a very Lafferty touch.

When Lafferty was young, his family took vacations to Galveston, and it looms large in his imagination In Dotty, especially, one can see how rowdy and fun Lafferty’s Galveston was—a sinful place with its While there is a story in it, "Three Men in the Morning" is also a local-color piece in which Lafferty There, Lafferty writes, eleven elderly Black men live whose combined ages total one thousand years. Each is a Dolores with what Lafferty calls a "sea urchin" nature.

Vernor Vinge popularized the term four years after Lafferty wrote the story. Not a much-loved Lafferty story. But you probably have to be pretty into Lafferty to enjoy it. Formally, I think it’s pretty neat, albeit very minor Lafferty. Still, a lot of Lafferty comes bundled in a pretty tight package here.

An introduction by Warren Brown, one of Lafferty’s chief advocates and a rotating editor of Son of GPIC Lafferty wrote constantly about death, and never stopped thinking about it. As I’ve said before, I think the dead center of Lafferty is time. Lafferty said that alcoholics drink to escape time. Lafferty wrote it about five and a half decades before he composed the Audifaxes ephemera.

Lafferty readers know that Arutinov is one of the great paratextual reservoirs of Lafferty’s conceits We are in familiar Lafferty territory. What causes the itchiness? During a raid on the leaders’ gathering, Buford Cracksworthy (a great Lafferty name) attempts to save Lafferty does something chiral in this story about chiromancy. Something brief on conspiracy and why it matters for Lafferty today.

Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories Lafferty disliked Tolkien’s work. Even so, Tolkien is useful for thinking about the Lafferty stories that center on recovery. In “Rogue Raft,” Lafferty pushes back against the dogma that sea levels fall only during Ice Ages. It was the whole world laughing at them, in new mountains that had not been mountains a moment before For anyone interested in tracing Lafferty’s thoughts on catastrophism and fringe thought (beyond old

In an interview, Michael Swanwick says something really interesting about Lafferty's novels. First, Lafferty is so singularly different from others in how he plays with layers of allegory that it Lafferty uses her to say something about what it means to be a person: you and I will only understand In Lafferty, the phenomenon is inherently anagogic: it moves us, step by step, toward final things. Lafferty is hyper-aware of how character-driven narratives relativize worlds to the protagonists.