New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press

Christopher Simon · 03 Dec 2013, 04:27 · from 2013-December.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Christopher Simon)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 23:27:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press
Message-ID: <529d5dae.011e320a.1f73.4285 at mx.google.com>

I met a Lafferty fan in the flesh the other day. I was at a used bookstore and saw a woman paging through Strange Doings, then she placed it back on the shelf. I told her it was worth it, and she said she already had two copies, and was just considering buying a back up in case the others fell apart! She mentioned her favorite was a history of Rome written by Lafferty. Has anyone read it? Thoughts?

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com>
Sent: ?12/?2/?2013 8:13 PM
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press

Pelan is an "associate editor" at Centipede Press. On the other hand, so is the highly reliable S.T. Joshi.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:

If he's restricted to contributing words, it shouldn't be a problem. 
On Dec 2, 2013 6:39 PM, "Daniel Otto Jack Petersen" <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

Ouch.  Doesn't bode well for the Lafferty Library!

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:

He ran a publishing house. There are quite a few of us that bought books that were never sent. In my case, an advanced order, paid in full, for an anthology series of the short work of Clifford D. Simak.
So I'm out several hundred dollars. As are many other CDS fans. 
On Dec 2, 2013 6:29 PM, "Daniel Otto Jack Petersen" <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

Antonin, I agree about the cover.

Fred, what's the beef with Pelan?  Never heard of him before now...

-DOJP

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:

Afterword by John Pelan? He dares show his face in public, anywhere?

//grrrrrrrrrr//

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

I know this list occasionally gets used for Lafferty news as well (rightly so, since Wolfe considers Lafferty and actual and true genius), so I just wanted to make sure folks new Centipede Press is putting out the first fine volume of Lafferty's complete stories (they're calling it the Lafferty Library).  They say each volume will feature 'a guest introduction by a notable author in the field of fantastic fiction' (the first is by noted Wolfe fan Michael Swanwick).  I hope they'll get Wolfe to do one!

http://www.centipedepress.com/sf/manmademodels.html

I discuss the pros and cons of the particular table of contents they've revealed on my Lafferty blog:

http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/complete-lafferty-library-volume-1.html

Also, in case you've never seen where Wolfe calls Lafferty 'our most original writer' (he calls him a genius in a different essay), a few years ago I copied out Wolfe's essay from Castle of Days here:

http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/its-great-to-be-young-and-in-danger.html

Take care.

-- 
Daniel Otto Jack Petersen 

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