This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

Marc Aramini · 16 Apr 2012, 02:38 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:38:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
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I foolishly passed on the Vance complete edition when it was being produced because I had read so much of his work already - if they did something similar with Lafferty I would almost certainly invest in it if the cost were at all reasonable, as I feel like the vast majority of his work is simply unavailable.

That was a strange event, the auctioning of his estate. So somebody bought it?  Maybe this grad student did. Huh.

--- On Sun, 4/15/12, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 7:34 PM
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:31 PM,
> Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I would love for there to be a more comprehensive
> outlet for his short fiction - I can't imagine what it cost
> that guy to track down all of it.
> 
> The info on his estate was also interesting, as
> frustratingly oblique
> as he is. I hadn't known about the extended family (which is
> weird,
> why didn't it go to one specific relative) prompting the
> sale, and I
> had actually assumed no one had bid on it and it went to the
> Locus
> Foundation - which seems to not be the case.
> 
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