R.A. Lafferty has died
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Mar 2002
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Andy Robertson — 20 Mar 2002, 22:07

I suspect this will grieve Wolfe . . .


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> From: "johnfboston" <john.boston at verizon.net>
> To: <fictionmags at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:36 PM
> Subject: [fictionmags] R.A. Lafferty has died
> Forwarded by Joyce Scrivner:
> 
> (From Plokta News Network)
> 
> 
> Title: RIP R.A. Lafferty (General)
> Date: Wednesday March 20 2002 @ 08:21AM GMT
> Author: Alison Scott (alison at kittywompus.com)
> 
> Steven Silver, writing in rec.arts.sf.fandom, reports that SFWA has
> announced that RA Lafferty has died.
> 
> Lafferty was a master of the SF short story and won the Hugo for Short
> Story
> in 1973 for "Eurema's Dam". His stories have tended to be overlooked
> in
> recent years; a great shame. If you haven't read any Lafferty, I
> recommend
> you try some.
> 
> *** Joyce.Scrivner at unisys.com *** all my own opinions ***
> Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.  H. G. Wells.
> 
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