OT: Lafferty recommendations

Gwern Branwen · 21 Jul 2007, 19:13 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:13:33 -0400
Subject: (urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations
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On  0, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> scribbled:
> Wolfe seems to be a big admirer of R. A. Lafferty.  ("Has Anyone Seen
> Junie Moon" from _Starwater Strains_ has a character named Roy T.
> Laffer.)  Are there any readers of Lafferty here who can recommend a
> good place for a Wolfe fan to start?

Start with ''Fourth Mansions'' for a good almost-mainstream immersion in Lafferty-style paranoia and story telling, and follow it up with ''The Devil is Dead'' and ''The Annals of Klepsis'' (in that order; Klepsis is even more paranoid and hallucinatory than the previous two put together, so I wouldn't start with it).

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