R.A. Lafferty

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Land of the Great Horses

    in Dangerous Visions #3

  • Past Master

    Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astro...

  • The Reefs of Earth

    The Dulanty family can pass for human, but they're actually alien Pucas, stranded on the remote backwater planet Earth in the tiny (and corrupt) Appalachian town of Lost Haven. The six Dulanty children (seven, if you count the disembodied Bad John) g...

  • Fourth Mansions

  • Nine Hundred Grandmothers

    Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about - * A man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world *A race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements * A speeded-up world where a m...

  • The Devil Is Dead

  • Not to Mention Camels

  • Apocalypses

  • Condillac's Statue

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...



  • Aurelia

  • Four Stories

    ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PRIVATE PRESS PAPERBACK - DRUMM Booklet # 7 - Published in 1983 Table of Contents: The Last Astronomer / In the Turpentine Trees / Faith Sufficient / Bird-Master OVERALL FINE CONDITION ( some aging/toning to outer cover - other...

  • Ringing Changes

  • My Heart Leaps Up

  • Sinbad, the Thirteenth Voyage

    As Harun lay dying here on Kentauron Mikron, all untimely still in his golden youth, he whispered a word to me that he would use if he were born again. It is the meaningless but numerologically magic word "Bangdad." It has since become the name of on...

  • Sinbad: The Thirteenth Voyage

  • Sindbad: The Thirteenth Voyage

  • Okla Hannali

    "This curious and wonderful tall tale contributes to the apocalyptic revision of American history that began with Little Big Man and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It’s the tale of Hannali Innominee, a ’Mingo’ or natural lord of the 19th-cen...

  • Lafferty in Orbit

  • Iron Tears



  • Not to Mention Camels: A Wild Trip Through Time and Space

    Three memorable creatures world jump in a meta-cosmic universe that orbits with nightmarish landscapes that thrive on anti-matter, anti-space, and anti-time. What mind and body searing challenges await the Pilger, Pilgrim, and Polder, who are really ...

  • Annals of Klepsis

    OH COME TO KLEPSIS TO
    CLAIM YOUR SHARE . . .
    AND BREATHE THE RANK
    AND LAWLESS AIR!

    Plots and intrigues and romances abound.
    Smoke pictures, ghosts, and treasure chests to be found.
    Magnifying monocles and hallucinogenic grapes-...

  • Serpent's Egg

  • Sodom and Gamorrah, Texas

    Manuel shouldn't have been employed as a census taker. He wasn't qualified. He couldn't read a map. He didn't know what a map was. He only grinned when they told him that North was at the top. He knew better. But he did write a nice round hand, like ...

  • The Man Who Made Models

    With most of his brilliant and original work now out of print, this is the first volume in a series of the short fiction of R.A. Lafferty, one of science fiction's most highly regarded authors. The series will include new introductions by many of ...

  • The Collected Short Stories of R.A. Lafferty Volume Two

    With most of his brilliant and original work now out of print, this is the second volume in a series of the short fiction of R.A. Lafferty, one of science fiction's most highly regarded authors. Volume two features a new introduction by Harlan Ell...

  • Complete Science Fantasy

  • The Man Underneath

    With most of his brilliant and original work now out of print, this is the third volume in a series of the short fiction of R.A. Lafferty, one of science fiction's most highly regarded authors. Volume three features a new introduction by Bud Webst...

  • The Weirdest World

    Odd planet! The bipeds talked from their heads and saw only what lay before them. In short, they were pathetic -- and deadly!...

  • The Man with the Speckled Eyes

    With most of his brilliant and original work now out-of-print, this is the fourth volume in Centipede Press' series of the short fiction of R. A. Lafferty, one of science fiction's most highly-regarded authors. Volume four features a new introduct...



  • The Man Through the Cracks

    Featuring a new introduction by Michael Kurland, the fifth volume of stories by R.A. Lafferty includes the titular story and such classic Lafferty stories as “Hands of the Man,” “Among the Hairy Earthmen,” and rare stories like “Ewe Lamb”...

  • The Best of R. A. Lafferty

    Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Aw...

  • R. A. Lafferty Super Pack

    Collected here are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R. A. Lafferty. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six-time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and ma...

  • The Polite People of Pudibundia

    This was a world where minding your manners was more than just a full-time job -- it was murder!...

  • The Best of R.A. Lafferty

  • R.A. Lafferty

  • Aloys

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    He had flared up more brightly than anyone in memory. And then he was gone. Yet there was ironic laughter where he had been; and his ghost still walked. That was the oddest thing: to encounter his ghost. It was like coming suddenly on Haley's Comet d...

  • Complete Science Fantasy- Aloys All The People Dream World The Six Fingers of Time Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

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    An American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The F...

  • Mischief malicious

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  • The Six Fingers Of Time

    • / Science Fiction
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    Time is money. Time heals all wounds. Given time, anything is possible. And now he had all the time in the world!...



  • Sodom And Gomorrah, Texas

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    R.A. Lafferty was a master of the science fiction short story. Here is presented one of his classic works....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

R.A. Lafferty has published 40 books.

R.A. Lafferty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best of R.A. Lafferty, was published in February 2021.

The first book by R.A. Lafferty, Land of the Great Horses, was published in January 1967.

No. R.A. Lafferty does not write books in series.
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