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R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002)

Author of Past Master

Includes the names: Lafferty A., R. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty, Lafferty. R. a, R. A. Lafferty, Rafael A. Lafferty, Raphael A. Lafferty, R.A. ラファティ, Raphaël A. Lafferty, R・A・ラファティ ... (see complete list), Rafael Aloysius Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, Raphaël Aloysius Lafferty

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Works by R. A. Lafferty
Past Master 440 copies, 8 reviews
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 427 copies, 4 reviews
Fourth Mansions (Author) 300 copies, 2 reviews
The Reefs of Earth 200 copies
The Devil Is Dead 186 copies, 4 reviews
Arrive at Easterwine 179 copies, 3 reviews
The Best of R. A. Lafferty 145 copies, 4 reviews
Strange doings 136 copies, 4 reviews
Okla Hannali 113 copies, 1 review
The Annals of Klepsis 111 copies
Apocalypses (Author) 108 copies
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? 93 copies, 1 review
Ringing Changes 85 copies, 1 review
Not to Mention Camels: A Science Fiction Fantasy 83 copies, 1 review
Space Chantey / Pity About Earth (Ace Double H-56) (Author) 77 copies
Space Chantey 56 copies, 4 reviews
Lafferty in Orbit 51 copies, 1 review
The fall of Rome 44 copies, 1 review
The Man Who Made Models: The Collected Short Fiction 33 copies
Iron Tears 32 copies
Serpent's Egg 32 copies
The Man with the Speckled Eyes (The Collected Short Fiction) 31 copies
Aurelia (Starblaze Editions) 31 copies
The Six Fingers of Time 30 copies
The Man Underneath: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Three 30 copies
The Man with the Aura: The Collected Short Fiction Volume Two 30 copies
Sindbad: The Thirteenth Voyage 29 copies
Flame Is Green 25 copies
R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past… 25 copies
Archipelago 24 copies
Golden Gate and Other Stories 23 copies, 1 review
Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and Men Who Know Everything 22 copies
The Man Who Walked Through Cracks: The Collected Short Fiction of R.A.… 21 copies
Half a Sky 20 copies
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas 18 copies
East of Laughter 18 copies
The Man Who Never Was 18 copies
It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs: Essays and Speeches on Fantastic… 16 copies
The R.A. Lafferty Fantastic MEGAPACK® 16 copies
Salomas del espacio 14 copies, 1 review
Among the Hairy Earthmen [short fiction] 14 copies
Narrow Valley [short fiction] 13 copies
Fantastic. No. 187 (August 1975) (Contributor) 11 copies
Episodes of the Argo 10 copies
Galaxy Science Fiction 1965 April, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Author) 10 copies
Eurema's Dam [short fiction] 10 copies
Continued on Next Rock [short story] 10 copies
Tales of Chicago 9 copies
Tales of midnight : more than Melchisedech 8 copies
Heart of Stone: Dear and Other Stories (Booklet Series : No. 12) 8 copies
Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories (Booklet Ser No 13) 8 copies
Slow Tuesday Night 8 copies
How many miles to Babylon 8 copies
Mad Man: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Seven 7 copies
Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : Raphaël Lafferty 7 copies
Nine Hundred Grandmothers [short fiction] 7 copies
Parthen [short fiction] 7 copies
Sky [short story] 7 copies
The elliptical grave 7 copies
Dotty 7 copies
The Early Lafferty 7 copies
True Believers 7 copies
The early Lafferty II 7 copies
Slippery and Other Stories (Booklet Series No 19) 6 copies
Been a Long, Long Time [short fiction] 6 copies
Land of the Great Horses [short story] 6 copies
Four Stories (Booklet Ser.: No. 7) 6 copies
The back door of history 6 copies
Am Vorabend des St. Poleander- Tags. 10 neue Stories von Spitzenautoren… 5 copies
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 5 and 6, Booklet Series No. 28) 5 copies
Horns on their heads 5 copies
The Man who made Models and Other Stories 5 copies
Laughing Kelly and Other Verses (Booklet Ser No 11) 5 copies
Primary Education Of The Camiroi 5 copies
Cranky old man from Tulsa : interviews with R.A. Lafferty 5 copies
Funnyfingers & Cabrito 4 copies
The Collected Short Fiction: Volume 6: The Man Who Never Was 4 copies
Strange Skies 4 copies
Mad Man 4 copies
Promontory goats 4 copies
Associazione genitori e insegnanti 4 copies
Argo (Author) 4 copies
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 3 and 4, Booklet Series No 26) 4 copies
In Our Block 4 copies
Mischief malicious 4 copies
Golden Gate [short story] 3 copies
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 9 and 10, Booklet Series No 35) 3 copies
Magazine Section {short story} 3 copies
The Hole on the Corner {short story} 3 copies
The Man Who Talled Tales: Collected Short Stories of R.A. Lafferty 3 copies
Los seis dedos del tiempo 3 copies
Hands Of The Man 3 copies
Seven-day Terror 3 copies
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 1 and 2 Booklet Series No 24) 3 copies
Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne [short fiction] 3 copies
More Than Melchisedech 3 copies
You Can't Go Back [short story] 3 copies
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 7 and 8, Booklet Series No. 29) 3 copies
And Read the Flesh Between the Lines (short story) 3 copies
Short Fiction 3 copies
Pistolero fuori tempo (Contributor) 3 copies
The World As Will And Wallpaper {short story} 3 copies, 1 review
Aloys 3 copies
The Man Underneath [short fiction] 3 copies
The Weirdest World 2 copies
All The People 2 copies
Wir kommen wieder [Kurzgeschichte] 2 copies
Le maître du passé. 2 copies
La banda di banaby sheen 2 copies
Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #1 (Positronic… 2 copies
Dream World 2 copies
Adam Had Three Brothers {short story} 2 copies
Company in the Wings 2 copies
Rainbird 2 copies
Ifrit 2 copies
Dieci storie dell'altro mondo 2 copies
Selenium Ghosts Of The Eighteen Seventies 2 copies
All Pieces Of A River Shore 2 copies
And Name My Name {short story} 2 copies
Entire And Perfect Chrysolite 2 copies
Old Foot Forgot [short story] 2 copies
One at a Time [short story] 2 copies
This Grand Carcass 2 copies
Nor Limestone Islands 2 copies
Square And Above Board 2 copies
About a Secret Crocodile [short story] 2 copies
Grasshoppers & Wild Honey --In a Green Tree Part 2 1 copy
Storie di altri universi (Urania) (Italian Edition) 1 copy
Autobiographie d'une machine ktistèque 1 copy
町かどの穴　ラファティ・ベスト・コレクション1 1 copy
どろぼう熊の惑星 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) 1 copy
Lafferty Raphael Aloysius 1 copy
つぎの岩につづく (ハヤカワ文庫SF) 1 copy
Short Science Fiction Collection 056 1 copy
900 Großmütter Band 2 1 copy
Los Salta-Mundos 1 copy
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas and eight more stories (Classics To Go) 1 copy
In the Garden 1 copy
McGonigal's Worm 1 copy
The Polite People of Pudibundia 1 copy
Through Other Eyes 1 copy
Los saltamundos 1 copy
Splinters [short story] 1 copy
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas and eight more stories (Classics To Go) 1 copy
Summa Risus 1 copy
The Man Who Never Was [short fiction] 1 copy
Chants de l'espace 1 copy
Najlepsze opowiadania - R.A. Lafferty [KSIÄĹťKA] 1 copy
Scorner's Seat {short story} 1 copy
Short Science Fiction Collection 058 1 copy
Hog Belly Honey [short story] 1 copy
The Transcendent Tigers 1 copy
The Configuration Of The North Shore 1 copy
The Emperor's Shoestrings 1 copy
Bequest of Wings 1 copy
The Forty-Seventh Island 1 copy
The Story Of Little Briar-rose A Scholarly Study 1 copy
Incased In Ancient Rind [Encased In Ancient Rind] 1 copy
Bank And Shoal Of Time 1 copy
"Ishmael into the Barrens" (in Four Futures) 1 copy
"Condillac's Statue, or Wrens in His Head" (in Alchemy and Academe) 1 copy
Ginny Wrapped in the Sun [short story] 1 copy
Interurban Queen {short story} 1 copy
When All the Lands Pour Out Again [short story] 1 copy
I Don't Care Who Keeps the Cows [short story] 1 copy
La planète ours voleur 1 copy
Come si chiamava quella cita'? 1 copy
The All-at-Once Man 1 copy
A Special Condition In Summit City 1 copy
Brain Fever Season 1 copy
And All The Skies Are Full Of Fish 1 copy
Rivers of Damascus [short fiction] 1 copy
Bright Flightways [short story] 1 copy
The man who walked through cracks [novelette] 1 copy
The Cliff Climbers {short story} 1 copy
Le Hot Sport {short story} 1 copy
Fall of Pebble-Stones (short story) 1 copy
More Fantastic Stories 1 copy
Symposium {short story} 1 copy
Versuch dich zu erinnern [Kurzgeschichte] 1 copy
Buone notizie dal Vaticano 1 copy
子供たちの午後 (Seishinsha SF Series) 1 copy
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Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories (Contributor) 1,854 copies, 35 reviews
Alchemy and Academe (Contributor) 570 copies, 7 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (Contributor, some editions) 500 copies, 1 review
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (Contributor) 432 copies, 7 reviews
Galactic Empires, Volume One (Contributor) 393 copies, 7 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 392 copies, 6 reviews
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (Contributor) 369 copies, 4 reviews
Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse (Contributor) 341 copies, 5 reviews
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (Contributor) 319 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction,… (Contributor) 306 copies, 5 reviews
The Hugo Winners: Volume Three (1971-1975) (Author) 262 copies, 1 review
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (Contributor) 239 copies, 4 reviews
Nebula Award Stories Number Two (Contributor) 235 copies
The 1974 Annual World's Best SF (Contributor) 225 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 221 copies, 1 review
Nebula Award Stories Seven (Contributor) 215 copies, 1 review
The 1972 Annual World's Best SF (Contributor) 213 copies, 1 review
Epoch (Contributor) 208 copies, 2 reviews
Modern Classics of Fantasy (Contributor) 201 copies, 1 review
Modern Classics of Science Fiction (Contributor) 196 copies, 2 reviews
The Fantasy Hall of Fame (Contributor) 189 copies
Strange Dreams (Contributor) 182 copies
Dangerous Visions 3 (Contributor) 179 copies, 3 reviews
World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 (Contributor) 176 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 (Contributor) 175 copies, 2 reviews
Tales from the Spaceport Bar (Contributor) 174 copies, 2 reviews
My Favorite Fantasy Story (Contributor) 163 copies
Mutants : Eleven Stories of Science Fiction (Contributor) 161 copies, 4 reviews
The Ruins of Earth (Contributor) 159 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 154 copies
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (Contributor) 141 copies, 1 review
Treasures of Fantasy (Contributor) 140 copies, 1 review
World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 (Contributor) 139 copies, 3 reviews
Universe 4 (Contributor) 135 copies, 3 reviews
Space Odyssey (Contributor) 135 copies, 1 review
Basilisk (Contributor) 133 copies, 4 reviews
Nebula Award Stories Six (Contributor) 133 copies, 1 review
Shadows (Contributor) 133 copies, 2 reviews
SF12 (Contributor) 129 copies
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Contributor) 127 copies, 3 reviews
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 127 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (Contributor) 127 copies, 1 review
Universe 10 (Contributor) 125 copies, 1 review
Universe 7 (Contributor) 124 copies
The Ninth Galaxy Reader (Contributor) 123 copies, 2 reviews
Galactic Empires {complete} (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 (Contributor) 118 copies, 2 reviews
The Hugo Winners: Volume Three, Book 2 (1973-1975) (Contributor) 115 copies, 3 reviews
8th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contributor) 114 copies, 3 reviews
Magic in Ithkar 2 (Contributor) 112 copies
11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contributor) 112 copies, 2 reviews
Galaxy, Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (Contributor) 110 copies, 4 reviews
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 (Contributor) 109 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 (Author) 108 copies, 2 reviews
New Dimensions 3 (Contributor) 107 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (Contributor) 107 copies, 2 reviews
Orbit 19 (Contributor) 102 copies
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969: Past Master /… (Contributor) 101 copies, 2 reviews
Orbit 5 (Contributor) 99 copies, 1 review
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 98 copies, 1 review
The Best of Crank! (Author) 98 copies, 1 review
Perpetual Light (Contributor) 98 copies
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (Contributor) 95 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 (Contributor) 93 copies, 1 review
Universe 2 (Contributor) 92 copies
Strange gifts: Eight stories of science fiction (Author) 90 copies, 1 review
The American Fantasy Tradition (Contributor) 89 copies, 2 reviews
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Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year First Annual Collection (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review
Orbit 7 (Contributor) 80 copies
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 79 copies, 2 reviews
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Stellar #1: Science-Fiction Stories (Contributor) 79 copies
Orbit 2 (Contributor) 79 copies, 2 reviews
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Canonical name
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Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius
Other names
Date of birth
1914-11-07
Date of death
2002-03-18
Burial location
St. Rose Catholic cemetery, Perry, Oklahoma, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Neola, Iowa, USA
Place of death
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Cause of death
Places of residence
Perry, Oklahoma, USA
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Education
University of Tulsa
Occupations
electrical engineer
science fiction writer
Relationships
Agents
Virginia Kidd Literary Agency
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)
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