R A Lafferty [RIP]
03-23-02 | 03:42 AM
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R A Lafferty [RIP]
I read elsewhere the obituary notice of a quirky less well-known science fiction writer from an earlier age:
SFWA has announced that R.A. Lafferty, whose science fiction stories were collected in books such as _Lafferty in Orbit_ and _Nine Hundred Grandmothers_, and who wrote the novels _Past Master_ and _Fourth Mansions_, has died.
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was born in 1914 and began to write in the 1960s. His first published story was "Day of the Glacier" in The Original Sciecne Fiction Stories (1960) and his first published novel was _Past Master_ (1968).
Lafferty received Hugo Nominations for _PastMaster_, "Continued on the Next Rock," "Sky," and "Eurema's Dam," the last of which won the Best Short Story Hugo in 1973 (along with Pohl & Kornbluth's "The Meeting."
He received Nebula nominations for "Slow Thursday Night," _Past
Master_, _Fourth Mansions_, "Continued on the Next Rock," and _The Devil is Dead_. He never received a Nebula Award.
His collection _Lafferty in Orbit_ was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and in 1990, Lafferty received a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was born in 1914 and began to write in the 1960s. His first published story was "Day of the Glacier" in The Original Sciecne Fiction Stories (1960) and his first published novel was _Past Master_ (1968).
Lafferty received Hugo Nominations for _PastMaster_, "Continued on the Next Rock," "Sky," and "Eurema's Dam," the last of which won the Best Short Story Hugo in 1973 (along with Pohl & Kornbluth's "The Meeting."
He received Nebula nominations for "Slow Thursday Night," _Past
Master_, _Fourth Mansions_, "Continued on the Next Rock," and _The Devil is Dead_. He never received a Nebula Award.
His collection _Lafferty in Orbit_ was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and in 1990, Lafferty received a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
