OT: Lafferty recommendations The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jul 2007 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4888 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------