(urth) New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press

[Antonin Scriabin]

Finally got my copy of the first volume today. It is pretty nice, although
I'm still not a fan of the cover design. The margins seem unusually large
as well, there is a lot of space between the text and the edge of the page.
The binding and materials are high quality though, and this will make a
beautiful set when complete. And of course, all of the stories will be on
my shelves! Can't wait to read ones I've missed.
On Dec 3, 2013 3:14 AM, "Daniel Otto Jack Petersen" <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net>
> 4:30 AM (3 hours ago)
>  to Urth
>  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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