OT: Lafferty recommendations

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jul 2007
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Gwern Branwen22 Jul 2007, 21:39

↳ in reply to Sean Lackey

On 0, Sean Lackey <zeppelin at texas.net> scribbled:
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I read dad's copy of The Devil is Dead about 15 years ago, I read my copy a few weeks ago. I'm not convinced they were entirely the same. But I liked them both nevertheless. This book bears watching however.... Sean Lackey
They might well not have been. I quote a section from the Wikipedia article on Lafferty: *"Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night Of Count Finnegan On Galveston Island"; the last chapter of The Devil Is Dead, omitted from the standard version, because the publisher of the first edition did not receive it in time to include it; later published separately in Episodes of the Argo
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Sean Lackey22 Jul 2007, 22:04
I read dad's copy of The Devil is Dead about 15 years ago, I read my copy a few weeks ago. I'm not convinced they were entirely the same. But I liked them both nevertheless. This book bears watching however.... Sean Lackey
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On Jul 22, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Roy Lackey wrote: Echoing what others have said: Lafferty is probably most consistently at his best in short stories, but it was The Devil is Dead that first hooked me. That's a fine book, as is its sequel, Archipelago. (Good luck trying to find it! <g>) There are even a couple of related short stories in the collections. -Roy

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