. . . .He knew better. But he did write a nice round hand, like a boy's hand. He knew Spanish, and enough English. For the sector that was assigned to him he would not need a map. He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker. Besides, he was poor and needed the money.

He began by breaking things that morning. He broke the glass of water on his night stand. He knocked it crazily against the opposite wall and shattered it. Yet it shattered slowly. This would have surprised him if he had been fully awake, for he had only reached out sleepily for it. Nor had he wakened regularly to his alarm; he had wakened to a weird, slow, low booming, yet the clock said six, time for the alarm. And the low boom, when it came again, seemed to come from the clock. He reached out and touched it gently, but it floated off the stand at his touch and bounced around slowly on the floor. And when he picked it up again it had stopped, nor would shaking start it. He checked the electric clock in the kitchen. This also said six o'clock, but the sweep hand did not move. In his living room the radio clock said six, but the second hand seemed stationary. That was only the beginning. Worse things were to come -- much, much worse.

The Early Lafferty is a collection of short fiction by R. A. Lafferty, published in 1988 by United Mythologies Press in a limited edition of 500 copies, 150 of which were signedContents:* Rain Mountain • (1988) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* The Wagons • (1959) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Other Side of the Moon • (1960) • short fiction by R. A. Lafferty* Long Teeth • (1960) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Saturday You Die • (1960) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Task Force Fifty-Eight and One Half • (1988) • short story by R. A. Lafferty

Without a doubt, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was one of the most quirky and unusual authors every to work in science fiction. That's saying a lot. His stories are often unusual, challenging, uncategorizable, and brilliant. This collection assembles 18 of them, including his very first story.

The Back Door of History is a collection of short fiction by R. A. Lafferty, published in 1988 by United Mythologies Press. It was published in an unsigned edition and in a signed limited edition (150 copies as per the ISFDB - no limitation is noted in the book itself).these are the contents:Phoenic • (1980) • short story by R. A. Lafferty (variant of Phoenic')Six Leagues from Lop • short story by R. A. LaffertyRainy Day in Halicarnasses • (1979) • short story by R. A. LaffertyAssault on Fat Mountain • (1976) • short story by R. A. LaffertyCalamities of Last Pauper • (1982) • short story by R. A. Lafferty (variant of Calamities of the Last Pauper)Rogue Raft • (1973) • short story by R. A. LaffertyThere was a loose errata sheet in the book, explaining that they had forgotten to include the last page of "Phoenic" when the book was printed, and that instead of being page 6 as it should have been, it was included at the end of the book. What they did was to glue the missing page in on what was an otherwise blank page. The errata sheet I included as images 3 and 4 in the cbr.

The Early Lafferty II is a collection of short fiction by R. A. Lafferty, published in 1990 by United Mythologies Press. There were both signed and unsigned editions. There is no statement of limitation, but the ISFDB says the signed limited edition was 100 numbered copies, while the unsigned was a limited edition of 300 copiesContents:* Introduction: Its His Voice • (1990) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer* Day of the Glacier • (1960) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Almost Perfect • (1980) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Ghost in the Corn Crib • (1973) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Maleficent Morning • (1990) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* Beautiful Dreamer • (1960) • short story by R. A. Lafferty* McGonigal's Worm • (1960) • short story by R. A. Lafferty

Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, and Gene Wolfe.The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of offbeat imagination, ranging from classics like "Nine-Hundred Grandmothers" (basis for the later novel) and "The Primary Education of the Cameroi," to his Hugo Award-winning "Eurema's Dam."Introduced by Neil Gaiman, the volume also contains story introductions and afterwords by, among many others, Michael Dirda, Samuel R. Delany, John Scalzi, Connie Willis, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Robson, Harlan Ellison,...

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