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Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was born in Neola, Iowa in 1914 and died in 2002. His first publication of genre interest was ‘Day of the Glacier’ in the January 1960 edition of Science Fiction Stories. Over the course of his writing career, Lafferty produced thirty-two novels and more than two hundred short stories.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, originally published in 1970, collects twenty-one of them, including ‘Slow Tuesday Night’ and ‘In Our Block’, both of which were shortlisted for the Nebula Award.
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 blank |
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 |
You can find more of R. A. Lafferty’s work via his Author page on the Gateway website and read about him in his entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.