(urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate sale

[Craig Brewer]

Well, hey, let's start a collection and give him a proper home!




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From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate sale

Actually, what's really disgusting is that the high bid is $70K. 23
novels, for ghod's sake.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
> wow, so you can just buy the rights to everything he wrote? Insane.  It would 
>peeve me no end if I had a wealthy acquaintance that I despised in life buying 
>up my life's work, just a scenario I see as a possibility in cases like this. 
> Crazy.  Wonder how much it will go for?  Be cool to say, I own all Lafferty's 
>work, but it just doesn't seem just that a man's intellectual legacy is for sale 
>...
>
> --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: (urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate sale
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 8:27 AM
>> Linked in http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/03/sf-tidbits-for-3311/
>>
>> An ad (http://locusmag.com/2011/Ads/digitallafferty.jpg) for
>> the
>> Lafferty copyrights
>> (http://www.sfsite.com/news/2011/03/02/lafferty-estate-for-sale/).
>>
>> This does explain why Wildside Press didn't have any
>> Lafferty when I
>> went to buy some last year.
>>
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