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by digdugdirk 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure what just happened, but I think I might have enjoyed it.
Thank you for submitting this.
- walterbell 6y agoHaha, congrats for taking the leap! Some tangents from this classic story: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/02/slow_tuesday_night/ http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/02/slow_tuesday_night/ March 2021 review of Lafferty, https://archive.is/dXNBp https://archive.is/dXNBp > A select few actually have read Lafferty, a secret society of loonies whose names you probably do recognize. Neil Gaiman. Ursula Le Guin. Samuel Delany. Other sci-fi writers, in other words. R. A. Lafferty has always been, then, a sci-fi writer’s sci-fi writer—a blurry, far-out position to find oneself in. When comedians hang out, they famously have to commit acts of borderline criminality, usually involving nudity and great heights, to get each other to bust up. So just think what absurdities a sci-fi writer has to conjure forth to gobsmack his fellow sci-fi writers—sci-fi writers who actually are, by much wider consensus, some of the best in the world. The descriptor they tend to resort to, as if by no other choice, is sui generis, dusty old Latin for “one of a kind.” It’s probably the most common phrase associated with Lafferty ..