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R.A. Lafferty wrote fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction. His stories tend to emphasize a unique style rather than a structured plot, and for this reason, his literature is a bit too strange for many readers, but it has a cult following.





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The Devil is Dead — (1971-1984)

R.A. Lafferty The Devil is Dead Archipelago The Devil Is Dead More Than MelchisedechR.A. Lafferty The Devil is Dead Archipelago The Devil Is Dead More Than Melchisedech

Stand-alone novels:

book review Past Master R.A. LaffertyPast Master — (1968) Publisher: In a world where wealth and comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert paradise for he slums? Why were so many people choosing lives of bone crushing work, squalor and disease?


book review Fourth Mansions R.A. LaffertyFourth Mansions — (1969) Publisher: Seven very special people blending to create a higher form of humanity; A laughing man living alone on a mountaintop, guarding the world; The returnees, men who who live again and again, century after century. And a young man named Foley, very much like you or me, who begins to find out about these people, and how they are shaping the destiny of the world.


book review R.A. Lafferty Not to Mention CamelsNot to Mention Camels — (1972) Publisher: 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 searing challenges await the Pilger, Pilgrim, and Polder, who are really one man?


book review R.A. Lafferty The Annals of Klepsis Annals of Klepsis — (1983) Publisher: OH COME TO KLEPSIS TO CLAIM YOUR SHARE... AND BREATHE THE RANK AND LAWLESS AIR! Plots and intrigues and romances abound. Smoke pictures, ghosts, and treasure chests to be found. Magnifying monocles and hallucinogenic grapes — the unvoiced dreams of the dregs of space. Long John Tony Tyrone, the peg-legged historian, journeys there... And marries a Princess with rainbow hair. But the Ghost of Christopher Brannagan will not rest, until mathematician Aloysius has put to the test hHis theory concerning the Doomsday Equation, Which might save the planet from total devastation... Or might not.


R.A. Lafferty Serpent's EggSerpent's Egg — (1987) Publisher: 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 Aldermen who ordered assassinations when it was deemed to be for the common good. As a sign of their openness, they were always experimenting to find new ways of looking at the World. Most of these experiments would fail; some of them would succeed to an extent; and others would succeed only to well, and so would have to be crushed in the shell for the good of the World.


book review R.A. Lafferty Sinbad: The 13th voyageSinbad: The 13th Voyage — (1989) Publisher: 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 if he were born again. It is the meaningless but numerologically magic word "Bangdad." It has since become the name of one of those mirage cities, one of those cloud cities, that travelers sometimes report seeing. I have learned today that its meaning in Old Kentauron is "The Last City Built by Magic."

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