About the author

R. A. Lafferty (Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, 1914–2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, born in Iowa and long resident in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He worked as an electrical engineer and served in the Pacific theater during World War II, and did not begin writing until his forties. Over his career he produced more than thirty novels and over two hundred short stories. His style was idiosyncratic and singular, marked by absurdity, ingenuity and a strong relish for language, giving him a distinctive place in genre fiction. He won the Hugo Award in 1972 for "The Devil Is Dead" and received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1990. Six of his works are held in the collection, including "The Six Fingers of Time," "The Weirdest World" and "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas"; other representative works include "Dream World," "Aloys" and "All the People."

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