Description
Step into a dazzling collection of speculative tales where the ordinary world is repeatedly bent, reimagined, and made strange in Lafferty’s unmistakably comic, lyrical voice. Across these stories, characters confront impossible knowledge, uncanny social customs, and realities that accelerate beyond human scale—whether through a man who suddenly knows everyone, a society that preserves its ancestors like artifacts, or a world where fortunes rise and vanish in a single night. Threaded through the humor are themes of identity, memory, belief, and the fragile stories people tell to explain what they can’t control. With sharp imagination and offbeat warmth, these shorter works showcase why Lafferty remains a cult classic of American science fiction and fantasy—stories that linger long after the last page.
Available Editions
paperback
Wildside Press
Published Jan 1, 1970
324 pages
ISBN: 9781880448977
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First Published
1970
Language
eng
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