R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002)
Author of Past Master
About the Author
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Series
Works by R. A. Lafferty
The Man Who Walked Through Cracks: The Collected Short Fiction of R.A. Lafferty, volume 5 (2019) 20 copies
Among the Hairy Earthmen [short fiction] 14 copies
Slow Tuesday Night 8 copies
Parthen [short fiction] 7 copies
Am Vorabend des St. Poleander- Tags. 10 neue Stories von Spitzenautoren der Gegenwart. (1981) 5 copies
Mad Man 5 copies
Associazione genitori e insegnanti 4 copies
Company in the Wings 3 copies
You Can't Go Back [short story] 3 copies
Magazine Section {short story} 3 copies
Golden Gate [short story] 3 copies
Pistolero fuori tempo — Contributor — 3 copies
La banda di banaby sheen 2 copies
Square And Above Board 2 copies
Entire And Perfect Chrysolite 2 copies
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 2 copies
Rainbird 2 copies
This Grand Carcass 2 copies
Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #1 (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 29) (2016) 2 copies
And Name My Name {short story} 2 copies
All Pieces Of A River Shore 2 copies
Dieci storie dell'altro mondo 2 copies
Ifrit 2 copies
900 Großmütter Band 2 1 copy
町かどの穴 ラファティ・ベスト・コレクション1 1 copy
Splinters [short story] 1 copy
The Weirdest World 1 copy
Los saltamundos 1 copy
Passed Master 1 copy
Fourth Mansion 1 copy
Iron Tears 1 copy
Summa Risus 1 copy
Through Other Eyes 1 copy
Arrive at Easter Wine 1 copy
Los Salta-Mundos 1 copy
Lafferty Raphael Aloysius 1 copy
La planète ours voleur 1 copy
The Forty-Seventh Island 1 copy
Bequest of Wings 1 copy
The Emperor's Shoestrings 1 copy
The Transcendent Tigers 1 copy
Bank And Shoal Of Time 1 copy
The All-at-Once Man 1 copy
Le Hot Sport {short story} 1 copy
Buone notizie dal Vaticano 1 copy
Symposium {short story} 1 copy
Scorner's Seat {short story} 1 copy
Brain Fever Season 1 copy
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contributor — 1,938 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 316 copies
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969: Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio (2019) — Contributor — 107 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966) — Contributor, some editions — 79 copies
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contributor — 70 copies
And walk now gently through the fire, and other science fiction stories (1972) — Contributor — 61 copies
Beyond Tomorrow: Anthology of Modern Science Fiction (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 51 copies
American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s Box Set: The High Crusade / Way Station / Flowers for… (2019) — Contributor — 48 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1982, Vol. 63, No. 4 (1982) — Author — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Contributor — 13 copies
Worlds of If Science Fiction 152, January/February 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 9) (1971) — Contributor — 11 copies
Galaxy Science Fiction 1973 November, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1973) — Contributor, some editions — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 68. Mythen der nahen Zukunft. (1984) — Contributor — 7 copies
Worlds of If Science Fiction 85, December 1964 (Vol. 14, No. 7) (1964) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contributor — 2 copies
The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press (1992) — Contributor — 2 copies
Bizarrotektyw 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius
- Birthdate
- 1914-11-07
- Date of death
- 2002-03-18
- Burial location
- St. Rose Catholic cemetery, Perry, Oklahoma, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Neola, Iowa, USA
- Place of death
- Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
- Places of residence
- Perry, Oklahoma, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Education
- University of Tulsa
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
science fiction writer - Organizations
- United States Army (WWII)
- Awards and honors
- Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (2002)
World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1990)
Ditmar Award finalist (Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction ∙ 1969) - Agent
- Virginia Kidd Literary Agency
Members
Discussions
Cabell and Religion in The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (February 2019)
R. A. Lafferty in The Weird Tradition (January 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 189
- Also by
- 210
- Members
- 3,958
- Popularity
- #6,382
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 42
- ISBNs
- 208
- Languages
- 8
- Favorited
- 37