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The Thirteenth Voyage

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/06/09/the-thirteenth-voyage/

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Found this #shortstory in a brittle old copy of Fantasy and Science Fiction that I've had since I was a kid. I'd never read any Lafferty before. He's a trip. It's absolutely sci-fi—the characters are exploring a new planet—but the language is sensual and florid and the plot nearly hallucinatory. It reads like poetry, or magic realism.
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“Are we awake or sleeping?” Least Lass asked her lover one day, or night.

"That I do not know,” Fairbridge said, or thought, in whatever state he was in. “But we are together. May the Planet Plucker grant that we be always together.”

“We are together,” Least Lass agreed, “and yet I am climbing and leaping on the north ridges of the Volcano Misericors, and I am sound asleep. And you are swimming in the estuary of the River Festinatio, very deep below the surface where it is ocean water below the running water, and you also are asleep. Give me your hand.

--from “World Abounding” a short story by RA. Lafferty, first published in 1970

The Devil Is Dead

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/11/08/the-devil-is-dead-2/

The new episode of Old Man Yells At Spaceship is up. Today we return to the work of R A Lafferty, with "In The Garden". Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and a few others: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omyas/episodes/Episode-31---In-The-Garden---R-A-Lafferty-e2a4nuk #podcast #scifi #podcasts #RALafferty

5/31/23 new arrival:

1. Mad Man: The Collected Short Fiction Volume Seven
2. R. A. Lafferty
3. Centipede Press
4. 2023
5. 1st limited HC 65/300
6. Why I own it: I'd only encountered a handful of stories by Lafferty - all of them were very different from each other but uniformly wonderful. When Centipede started this series, I was more than happy to purchase them all. Looking forward to this set; I think there's only two I've read before!

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A bright orange cover with a line drawing of a man's head facing toward the viewer. He's wearing an oversized pair of glasses with circular lenses. The lenses are swirling with white, pink and blue, and you cannot see his eyes.

Finally finished #GeneWolfe ‘s Solar Cycle ( Book of New Sun, Long Sun and Short Sun ). Already missing the Whorl but got these queued up to make up for it. Especially excited to read #RAlafferty. #SciFi #Books