# OT: Lafferty recommendations *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jul 2007* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gwern Branwen *22 Jul 2007, 21:39 · in reply to Sean Lackey* On 0, Sean Lackey scribbled: > 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 ``` gwern 790 Skyt el Yukon Templeton Johohonbu LUK Cohiba Soros ``` --- ### Sean Lackey *22 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 > 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! ) There are even a couple of related short stories in the > collections. > > -Roy ---