I've heard of R.A. Lafferty and I must have read stuff by him, but I don't recollect any of it offhand. Except the "Camiroi" sound familiar. "Lafferty’s books

I've heard of R.A. Lafferty and I must have read stuff by him, but I don't recollect any of it offhand. Except the "Camiroi" sound familiar. "Lafferty’s books are his short stories stretched profoundly past breaking, which is perhaps why he thought of them as inferior" I used to think a lot of classic SF authors more or less fell into this pattern. My impression is that short stories had neither prestige nor were paid decently, but the constraints of writing them made them the sharpest and most focused form. I could make an almost endless list of authors who made more of an impression on me back when I read SF, like Jack Vance, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon), Theodore Sturgeon... Le Guin and Delany are writers who are celebrated, but never reached me the same way. Still, I would think I would remember reading something by them about Lafferty if they thought he was so great.