(urth) New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press

[Daniel Otto Jack Petersen]

Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net>
4:30 AM (3 hours ago)
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Christopher Simon
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> She mentioned her favorite was a history of Rome written by Lafferty. Has
> anyone read it? Thoughts?

_The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums.
It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity to read most of it in a
library once. IIRC, it was sort of a nonfiction account written in a
novelistic manner, and I didn't know what to make of it because I
didn't know how much of it was standard history and how much was
Lafferty's extrapolations or interpolations or editorializing.

Pretty much the same situation for me when I read most of it, Gwern.  But
for an aficionado there are Laffertian gold nuggets in there, and it was
interesting to see him write a few passages that felt almost like his
unique version of high fantasy, which is something I've never seen him
attempt elsewhere.  Interesting connections with Wolfe there... -DOJP


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Christopher Simon
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > She mentioned her favorite was a history of Rome written by Lafferty. Has
> > anyone read it? Thoughts?
>
> _The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums.
> It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity to read most of it in a
> library once. IIRC, it was sort of a nonfiction account written in a
> novelistic manner, and I didn't know what to make of it because I
> didn't know how much of it was standard history and how much was
> Lafferty's extrapolations or interpolations or editorializing.
>
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