R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty (Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American SF writer.
Bibliography
Non-Fiction
- Lafferty, R. A. (hardcover). The Fall of Rome (first ed.). Garden City, N.Y. USA: Doubleday. pp. 302. LCCN 73-131087. (Lafferty's fifth book)
- Lafferty, R. A. It's down the slippery cellar stairs: essays and speeches on fantastic literature. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press.
Historical novels
- The Flame is Green, 1st volume of the Coscuin Chronicles
- Half a Sky, 2nd volume of the Coscuin Chronicles
- Sardinian Summer, 3rd volume of the Coscuin Chronicles (unpublished)
- First and Last Islands, 4th and final volume of the Coscuin Chronicles (unpublished)
- Lafferty, R. A. (hardcover). Okla Hannali (first ed.). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. pp. 221. LCCN 73-186035.
- Esteban (unpublished)
Science Fiction and Fantasy novels
- Past Master
- The Reefs of Earth, 1968
- Space Chantey (a retelling of the Odyssey in SF terms).
- Fourth Mansions, 1969
- Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine as Conveyed to R. A. Lafferty
- Not to Mention Camels
- Aurelia
- Annals of Klepsis
- Serpent's Egg
- East of Laughter
- Sindbad: The Thirteenth Voyage
- Dotty
- The Elliptical Grave
- When All the World Was Young (unpublished)
Autobiographical novels
In a Green Tree
- My Heart Leaps Up, 1920-1928
- Grasshoppers and Wild Honey, 1928-1942 (unpublished)
- Deep Scars of the Thunder, 1942-1960 (unpublished)
- Incidents of Travel in Flatland, 1960-1978 (unpublished)
The Devil is Dead Trilogy
- Lafferty, R. A.. Archipelago: the first book of The Devil is Dead trilogy (1st edition ed.). Lafayette, La.: Manuscript Press. pp. 283. LCCN: 79-127387; OCLC: 5944486.
- Lafferty, R. A. (1999) [1971] (softcover). The Devil is Dead (Wildside edition ed.). Berkeley Heights, New Jersey; or Gillette, NJ: 1999 edition, Wildside Press; 1971/1977 edition, Gregg Press of Boston (The Gregg Press science fiction series). pp. 224. ISBN 1-880448-95-5; ISBN 0-8398-2364-9; LCCN: 77-5038; OCLC: 2896356.
- the "Interglossia"; a portion of The Devil is Dead which was omitted from printings of it; the Interglossia has been republished in How Many Miles to Babylon? & in pgs 16-18, Issue 5 of A Magazine of Popular Literature and Popular Culture, in 1972 (ed. by Tom Collins & published by Fan Press of Lakemont, GA) [1]; OCLC: 70161160
- "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
- More Than Melchisedech
- Tales of Chicago
- Tales of Midnight
- Argo
Miscellaneous unpublished novels or otherwise unknown
- Iron Tongue of Midnight
- Dark Shine
- Fair Hills of Ocean
Chapbooks
- Funnyfingers & Cabrito (Pendragon Press, 1976)
- Horns On Their Heads (Pendragon Press, 1976)
- Promontory goats (c. 1988; Publisher: United Mythologies Press)
- True believers (c. 1988; Publisher: United Mythologies Press)
- Strange skies (c. 1988; Publisher: United Mythologies Press)
- Mischief malicious (c. 1991; Publisher: United Mythologies Press)
Novellas
- How Many Miles to Babylon?
- Apocalypses
- Where have You been Sandaliotis?
- The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeney
- Lafferty, R. A.. Ishmael into the Barrens (1st edition ed.). pp. 1–50. Ishmael into the Barrens was first printed in the 1971 anthology Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction, New York, New York; Hawthorn Books (195 pages; it contains the "Foreword: Four Themes for Four Futures" by Isaac Asimov; Ishmael into the Barrens by R. A. Lafferty; Braver Newer World by Harry Harrison; How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? by Alexei Panshin; and Going by Robert Silverberg; LCCN: 79-158024)
Short stories
- "And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire"
- "Six Fingers of Time"
Short story collections
(the following collections have no overlap)
- Nine Hundred Grandmothers (21 stories): Nine Hundred Grandmothers / Land of the Great Horses / Ginny Wrapped in the Sun / The Six Fingers of Time / Frog on the Mountain / All the People / Primary Education of the Camiroi / Slow Tuesday Night / Snuffles / Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne / Name of the Snake / Narrow Valley / Polity and Custom of the Camiroi / In Our Block / Hog-Belly Honey / Seven-Day Terror / The Hole on the Corner / What’s the Name of That Town? / Through Other Eyes / One at a Time / Guesting Time
- Strange Doings (16 stories): Rainbird / Camels and Dromedaries, Clem / Continued on Next Rock / Once on Aranea / Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas / The Man with the Speckled Eyes / All But the Words / The Transcendent Tigers / World Abounding / Dream / Ride a Tin Can / Aloys / Entire and Perfect Chrysolite / Incased in Ancient Rind / The Ugly Sea / Cliffs That Laughed. 276 pages, 1972, SBN 684-12530-7; New York, America and Canada, Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Does Anyone Else Have Something Further To Add? Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (16 stories): About a Secret Crocodile / Mad Man / Nor Limestone Islands / The Man Underneath / Boomer Flats / This Grand Carcass Yet / In the Garden / Groaning Hinges of the World / Golden Trabant / How They Gave It Back / Maybe Jones and the City / Seven Story Dream / Adam Had Three Brothers / Pig in a Pokey / The Weirdest World / The Ultimate Creature
- Golden Gate and Other Stories (16 stories): Golden Gate / Mr. Hamadryad / This Boding Itch / Condillac's Statue / The Cliff Climbers / McGruder's Marvels / Tongues of the Matagorda / Ishmael into the Barrens (previously published in Four Futures) / Eurema's Dam / Days of Grass, Days of Straw / Make Sure the Eyes Are Big Enough / Bequest of Wings / Fall of Pebble-Stones / Marsilia V / One-Eyed Mocking Bird / Sky
- Through Elegant Eyes (15 stories): The All-At-Once Man / Mud Violet / Barnaby's Clock / And Read the Flesh Between the Lines / Animal Fair / The Ungodly Mice of Dr. Drakos / The Two-Headed Dragon of Chris Benedetti / The Hellaceous Rocket of Harry O'Donovan / The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen / Rivers of Damascus / Old Helloweens on the Guna Slopes / Brain Fever Season / What Big Tears the Dinosaur's / And all the Skies Are Full of Fish / St. Poleander's Eve
- Iron Tears (15 stories): You Can't Go Back / Ifrit / Lord Torpedo, Lord Gyroscope / Funnyfingers / Thieving Bear Planet / Berryhill / The World As Will and Wallpaper / Horns On Their Heads / By the Sea Shore / Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies / Magazine Section / Or Little Ducks Each Day / Cabrito / Le Hot Sport / Gray Ghost: A Reminiscence
- Lafferty in Orbit (19 stories, 5 overlap the above; in addition, another 4 can be found in the collection Ringing Changes, below): Old Foot Forgot / All Pieces of a River Shore / Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream / Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread / The Hole on the Corner / The Skinny People of Leptophlebo Street / Continued on Next Rock / Entire and Perfect Chrysolite / Great Day in the Morning / The Hand with One Hundred Fingers / One at a Time / Royal Licorice / And Name My Name / Fall of Pebble Stones / Configuration of the North Shore / Dorg / When All the Lands Pour Out Again / Interurban Queen / The Only Tune That He Could Play
- Ringing Changes (20 stories, 13 overlap the above): Parthen / Old Foot Forgot / Dorg / Days of Grass, Days of Straw / Brain Fever Season / And Read the Flesh Between the Lines / Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes / The Ungodly Mice of Doctor Drakos / The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen / Rivers of Damascus / Among the Hairy Earthmen / In Outraged Stone / And Name My Name / Sky / For All Poor Folks at Picketwire / Oh Whatta You Do When the Well Runs Dry ? / And Some in Velvet Gowns / The Doggone Highly Scientific Door / Interurban Queen / Been a Long Long Time
- The back door of history, 1988, United Mythologies Press in Weston, Ont., Canada: Phoenic / Six leagues from Lop / Rainy day in Halicarnasses / Assault on Fat Mountain / Calamities of last pauper / Rogue raft.
- The early Lafferty, c. 1988, United Mythologies Press.
- The early Lafferty II, c. 1990, United Mythologies Press.