R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master

by R.A. Lafferty

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 the Hugo- and Nebula-shortlisted Past Master , space opera re-telling of The Odyssey, Space Chantey, and Fourth Mansions , also shortlisted for the Nebula.

Genres: Science Fiction

640 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2018

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.

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Fourth Mansions (1969)
Past Master (1968)
Space Chantey (1968)