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==Selected works== {{onesource|section|date=October 2022}} Lafferty's work is represented by [[Virginia Kidd]] Literary Agency,<ref>[http://www.sfwa.org/News/kidd.htm "Virginia Kidd (1921β2003)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930152501/http://www.sfwa.org/News/kidd.htm |date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> which holds a cache of his unpublished manuscripts.<ref name=Locus>"R.A. Lafferty (1914β2002), ''Locus'', May 2002, p.9, 68.</ref> This includes over a dozen novels, such as ''In The Akrokeraunian Mountains'' and ''Iron Tongue of Midnight'', as well as about eighty short stories and a handful of essays.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2016/03/paul-di-filippo-reviews-r-a-lafferty/| title = Paul Di Filippo reviews R.A. Lafferty| date = March 18, 2016}}</ref> ===Novels=== ====Science fiction==== * ''[[Past Master (novel)|Past Master]]'' (1968); Hugo Award nominee, 1969; Nebula Award nominee 1968 * ''[[The Reefs of Earth]]'' (1968) * ''[[Space Chantey]]'' (1968); a retelling of the ''[[Odyssey]]'' in SF terms * ''[[Fourth Mansions]]'' (1969); Nebula Award nominee, 1970 * ''[[The Devil is Dead]]'' (1971); Nebula Award nominee, 1972 [Second chronologically in The Devil is Dead trilogy] * ''[[Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine]]'' (1971) * ''[[Not to Mention Camels]]'' (1976) * ''[[Archipelago (novel)|Archipelago]]'' (1979); [First chronologically in The Devil is Dead trilogy] * ''[[Aurelia (novel)|Aurelia]]'' (1982); Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1982 * ''[[Annals of Klepsis]]'' (1983) * ''[[Serpent's Egg (novel)|Serpent's Egg]]'' (1987) * ''[[East of Laughter]]'' (1988) * ''[[How Many Miles to Babylon? (1989 novel)|How Many Miles to Babylon?]]'' (1989) * ''[[The Elliptical Grave]]'' (1989) * ''[[Dotty (novel)|Dotty]]'' (1990) * ''[[More Than Melchisedech]]'' (1992); [Third chronologically in The Devil is Dead trilogy, consists of three novels] ** ''[[Tales of Chicago]]'' ** ''[[Tales of Midnight]]'' ** ''[[Argo (novel)|Argo]]'' * ''[[Sindbad: The Thirteenth Voyage]]'' (1989) ====Other==== * ''[[The Flame is Green]]'' (1971); [First in the unfinished Coscuin Chronicles] * ''[[Okla Hannali]]'' (1972) * ''[[Half a Sky]]'' (1984) [Second in the unfinished Coscuin Chronicles] ===Collections=== * ''[[Nine Hundred Grandmothers]]'' (1970) * ''[[Strange Doings]]'' (1972) * ''[[Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?]]'' (1974) * ''[[Funnyfingers & Cabrito]]'' (1976) * ''[[Apocalypses (collection)|Apocalypses]]'' (1977) * ''[[Golden Gate and Other Stories]]'' (1982) * ''[[Through Elegant Eyes]]'' (1983) * ''[[Ringing Changes]]'' (1984) * ''[[The Early Lafferty]]'' (1988) * ''[[The Back Door of History]]'' (1988) * ''[[Strange Skies]]'' (1988); poems * ''[[The Early Lafferty II]]'' (1990) * ''[[Episodes of the Argo]]'' (1990) * ''[[Lafferty in Orbit]]'' (1991); World Fantasy Award nominee, 1992 * ''[[Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange)]]'' (1991) * ''[[Iron Tears]]'' (1992); Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1992 * ''[[The Man Who Made Models β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 1]]'' (2014) * ''[[The Man With the Aura β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 2]]'' (2015) * ''The Man Underneath β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 3'' (2015) * ''The Man With The Speckled Eyes β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 4'' (2017) * ''The Man Who Walked Through Cracks β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 5'' (2018) * ''The Man Who Never Was β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 6'' (2021) * ''Mad Man β The Collected Short Fiction Volume 7'' (2023) * ''[[The Best of R. A. Lafferty]]'' (2019) ===Non-fiction=== * ''[[The Fall of Rome (Lafferty book)|The Fall of Rome]]'' (1971); reprinted in 1993 as ''Alaric: The Day the World Ended'' * ''[[It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs]]'' (1984) * ''[[True Believers (book)|True Believers]]'' (1989) * ''[[Cranky Old Man from Tulsa]]'' (1990) ===Short stories=== <!--imbedded externals are contrary to Wikipedia guidelines and will need to be turned into footnotes--> * "Through Other Eyes" (''Future Science Fiction'', February 1960) * "All the People" (''Galaxy Science Fiction'', April 1961) * "The Weirdest World" (''Galaxy'', June 1961) * "Aloys" (''Galaxy'', August 1961) * "Rainbird" (''Galaxy'', December 1961) * "Dream" (''Galaxy'', June 1962) * "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas" (''Galaxy'', December 1962) * "What the Name of That Town?" (''Galaxy'', October 1964) * "Slow Tuesday Night" (''Galaxy'', April 1965) * "Among the Hairy Earthmen" (''Galaxy'', August 1966) * "[[Land of the Great Horses]]" (''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', 1967) * "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne" (''Galaxy'', February 1967) * "How They Gave It Back" (''Galaxy'', February 1968) * "McGruder's Marvels" (''Galaxy'', July 1968) * "[[Eurema's Dam]]" (''[[New Dimensions II]]'', 1972) * "The World as Will and Wallpaper", the title a wordplay on ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'' (Future City, 1973)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58355 |title=Title: The World as Will and Wallpaper |website=www.isfdb.org |access-date=November 7, 2021}}</ref>
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