OT: Lafferty recommendations

Roy C. Lackey · 22 Jul 2007, 00:20 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:20:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations
Message-ID: <000a01c7cbf6$3017adc0$47c85a42 at rclackey.stic.net>

Matthew Groves wrote:
>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?

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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