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Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty drew more from traditional oral storytelling techniques than from the usual pulp roots of SF. His inventive style and fondness for tall tales marked him out from his contemporaries, and writers of the calibre of Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe acknowledge him as a major influence and force in the field. His fiction has garnered numerous award wins and nominations and he has been given the prestigious SFWA Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This volume contains three of his early novels: the Hugo- and Nebula-shortlisted Past Master, space opera re-telling of The Odyssey, Space Chantey, and Fourth Mansions, also shortlisted for the Nebula.



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There's nothing close to Lafferty - nobody with the gravitas about things that were light, and the antigravitas about important heavy things

R.A. Lafferty might just be the most important science-fiction writer you've never heard of - Guardian

Lafferty defies catergorization; his work is unlike anyone else's - Harlan Ellison

R. A. Lafferty Three Great Novels

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      Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9781473213418, 978-1473213418
      ISBN10: 147321341X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty drew more from traditional oral storytelling techniques than from the usual pulp roots of SF. His inventive style and fondness for tall tales marked him out from his contemporaries, and writers of the calibre of Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe acknowledge him as a major influence and force in the field. His fiction has garnered numerous award wins and nominations and he has been given the prestigious SFWA Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

      This volume contains three of his early novels: the Hugo- and Nebula-shortlisted Past Master, space opera re-telling of The Odyssey, Space Chantey, and Fourth Mansions, also shortlisted for the Nebula.



      Trade Review
      There's nothing close to Lafferty - nobody with the gravitas about things that were light, and the antigravitas about important heavy things

      R.A. Lafferty might just be the most important science-fiction writer you've never heard of - Guardian

      Lafferty defies catergorization; his work is unlike anyone else's - Harlan Ellison

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