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FOUR FUTURES: FOUR ORIGINAL NOVELLAS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of four stories based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD?: STORIES ABOUT SECRET PLACES AND MEAN MEN.
New York: Charles Scribner's Son's, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third collection of short fiction. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 574-78. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622.
FOURTH MANSIONS.
London:Dennis Dobson, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a secret history of the world, amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter, since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-621. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 45.
FOURTH MANSIONS.
London:Dennis Dobson, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a secret history of the world, amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter, since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-621. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 45.
NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Also has a robot AI story, "All the People," and "What's the Name of That Town?," an Eipktistes story. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304.
THROUGH ELEGANT EYES: STORIES OF AUSTRO AND THE MEN WHO KNOW EVERYTHING.
Minneapolis: Corroboree Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies, this is one of 970 numbered and signed by Lafferty. Collects fifteen Barnaby Sheen stories, one original to this collection, two revised.
NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304.