R.A. Lafferty was een Amerikaanse sciencefiction- en fantasy-auteur, bekend om zijn originele taalgebruik, metaforen en vertelstructuren, evenals om zijn etymologische humor. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door een onderscheidende stijl en een speelse benadering van taal die lezers nieuwe ervaringen biedt. Naast genreverhalen schreef Lafferty ook autobiografische romans, historische werken en historische fictie, waarmee hij zijn veelzijdige literaire talent toonde.
Three memorable creatures world jump in a meta-cosmic universe that orbits with nightmarish landscapes that thrive on anti-matter, anti-space, and anti-time. What mind and body searing challenges await the Pilger, Pilgrim, and Polder, who are really one man?
- RAINBIRD (Rainbird) - KAMELEON EN DROMEDARISSEN (Camels and Dromedaries) - CLEM (Clem) - WORDT VERVOLGD OP DE VOLGENDE STEEN (Continued on Next Rock) - INCIDENT OP ARAEA (Once on Aranea) - SODOMA EN GOMORRA, TEXAS (Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas) - DE MAN MET DE VONKEN IN ZIJN OGEN (The Man with the Speckled Eyes) - SPREKEN IS ZILVER (All But the Words) - DE BOVENNATUURLIJKE TIJGERS (The Transcendent Tigers) - DROOM (Dream) - WELIGE WERELD (World Abounding) - TRIP IN BLIK (Ride a Tin Can) - ALOYS (Aloys) - VOLMAAKT EN AFGEROND JUWEEL (Entire and Perfect Chrysolite) - GEVANGENEN IN HET TRAGE SCHILD (Incased in Ancient Rind) - DE LELIJKE ZEE (The Ugly Sea) - DE LACHENDE ROTSKLIPPEN (Cliffs That Laughed)
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further To Add? Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (16 stories): About a Secret Crocodile Mad Man Nor Limestone Islands The Man Underneath Boomer Flats This Grand Carcass Yet In the Garden Groaning Hinges of the World Golden Trabant How They Gave It Back Maybe Jones and the City Seven Story Dream Adam Had Three Brothers Pig in a Pokey The Weirdest World The Ultimate Creature
In all of science fiction, there has never been a writer like R.A. Lafferty, the highly acclaimed author of Past Masters and Fourth Mansions . His people are heroic, foolish, demonic or mischievous, but always unpredictable, and his stories soar with imagination even while they chuckle at themselves. Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: A man who found one day that he knew everyone in the world. A race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements. A speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night. A friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God. ...in all, twenty-one immensely enjoyable stories that will continue to delight you long after you've read them.
Book by R. A. Lafferty
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