R. A Lafferty
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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. Included are:
ALOYS
ADAM HAD THREE BROTHERS
SEVEN-DAY TERROR
DAY OF THE GLACIER
SODOM AND GOMORRAH, TEXAS
THROUGH OTHER EYES
THE WEIRDEST WORLD
THE...
23) Past Master
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Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic.
Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 AD, where there is trouble in utopia: can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first...
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Library of America volume 322
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[2019]
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"In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile...
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Time travel remains a favorite subgenre in science fiction, and we are pleased to present another volume of classic tales. From pulp adventure to literary gems, here are stories that range from the ancient past to the far future...20 in all, by masters of their craft!
Included are:
TIME IN THE ROUND, by Fritz Leiber
TRANSFER POINT, by Anthony Boucher
GUEST IN THE HOUSE, by Frank Belknap Long
A STONE AND A SPEAR, by Raymond F. Jones
THE ORDEAL...
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Welcome to The Seventh Ghost Story MEGAPACK®! Once more we have a wide-ranging assortment of supernatural fiction, with setting across the world - Europe, the Americas, Asia - and across the centuries. You will note that we have a larger than normal number of "Anonymous" stories. No, the authors weren't embarrassed by their contributions. Victorian-era literary magazines and newspapers often ran fiction without crediting the author, or with only...
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