R.A.Lafferty

[Craig Clark]

Mike Weaver asks:
  > Any Lafferty fans out there in Pynchonia?  I know he's not in the same lit
  > league as our mentor but he has certain  qualities which transcend the
  > mundane,, and IMO at his best was as drunk on words as TP is stoned. ( I
  > know some feel that TP may not necessarily have been, or be, a doper but
  > that to me is like saying W.C. Fields wasn't into booze.)  It would be a
  > pleasant diversion to have an echat with some other TRP/RAL fans.  
  > Just thought I'd ask.
I've been trying for years to get hold of R.A. Lafferty's stuff, with 
no luck. Other SF writers who might be of interest include Gene Wolfe 
(not as witty but comparably erudite and complex); James Blaylock and 
John Sladek (also mentioned by Jminnich).


Craig Clark
aka Herod the Horrid

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"