The Man with the Speckled Eyes

The Collected Short Fiction of R.A. Lafferty #4

by R.A. Lafferty, Richard A. Lupoff (Introduction), John Pelan (Afterword)

With most of his brilliant and original work now out-of-print, this is the fourth volume in Centipede Press' series of the short fiction of R. A. Lafferty, one of science fiction's most highly-regarded authors. Volume four features a new introduction by esteemed science fiction and fantasy author Richard A. Lupoff, an afterword by John Pelan, and art by Jacob McMurray. The Man with the Speckled Eyes includes nearly twenty stories, many of which have never before been collected in book form.

R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) was a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author known for his singular creativity, originality, and wit. In a Washington Post article after Lafferty's death, Neil Gaiman eulogized him as being "without precedent"; Arthur C. Clarke referred to Lafferty as "One of the few writers who have made me laugh aloud." In 1990, Lafferty received a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Richard A. Lupoff is a Hugo Award-winning editor and Nebula Award-nominated author of short fiction, novels, and nonfiction.

John Pelan is a genre historian living in New Mexico.

Jacob McMurray is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Seattle, Washington. He is also a curator at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy

358 pages, Hardcover

Published March 14, 2017

About the author

Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, published under the name R.A. Lafferty, was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, a history book, and a number of novels that could be loosely called historical fiction.

Reviews

[Karl]

This hardcover book is numbered 193 of 300 signed and numbered copies and is signed by:

Richard Lupoff -introduction
John Pelan - afterword
Jacob Mcarray - cover design

The book is volume 4 of the collected short fiction of R. A. Lafferty.

[Vintagebooklvr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quirky and very different stories.