(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

[Antonin Scriabin]

I just discovered Lafferty a few months ago, and have been pretty lucky
when it comes to finding his stuff at used bookstores.  I am working
through some of his short stories now (in *Nine Hundred Grandmothers)* and
they are great.  I particularly liked *The Six Fingers of Time*.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> --- On *Sun, 4/15/12, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>* wrote:
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> From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 8:07 PM
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>  As I recall, Locus actually published that they bought it. Didn't
> someone share the link on here?
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> And I would certainly buy a collection like the Vance one...even if the
> price was UNreasonable.
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> (And I'm about to start catching up on the stories, Marc...been a long,
> busy week.)
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> You are right, even if it's an unreasonable cost.  That's cool, I just
> wanted to get rolling on the stories that needed minimal time investment so
> I could spend more time in May on the "meaty" ones.  So far Trip, Trap,
> House of Ancestors, and The Changeling are the ones most "worthy" of
> further discussion, but once we get to the death/doctor/island stories
> discussion not only does Wolfe's content become more complex, his prose
> style matures quite a bit as well.
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> The Changeling is the only early story that can stylistically hold up to
> The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories, on a sentence level alone
> that archipelago story is pretty sublime.  His quality output of the 70s
> was still definitely in the short story format, even with outstanding books
> like 5HOC and Peace.  In the 80s New Sun and Latro would definitely tend to
> outweigh his short fiction output in importance.
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