Raphael Aloysius Lafferty () var ein amerikansk forfattar.Encyclopædia Britannica om R.A. Lafferty Han har særleg godt omdømme for novellene sine innan science fiction/fantasy-sjangeren, men skreiv også historiske romanar.
Priser Lafferty blei nominert til Hugo for romanen Past MasterThe Hugo Awards om utdelingene i 1969 og novellene «Continued on the Next Rock»,The Hugo Awards om utdelingene i 1971 «Sky»The Hugo Awards om utdelingene i 1972 og «Eurema's Dam». For denne siste fekk han ein delt Hugo for beste novelle i 1973 (den andre vinnarnovella var «The Meeting» av Frederik Pohl og Cyril M. Kornbluth).The Hugo Awards om utdelingene i 1973
Han blei nominert til Nebulaprisen fleire gonger, men mottok han aldri for eit enkelt verk. I 1990 fekk han heidersprisen World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Bibliografi Romanar Past Master (Ace Books, 1968) The Reefs of Earth (Berkley Medallion, 1968) Space Chantey (Ace Books, 1968) Fourth Mansions (Ace Books, 1969) Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine (Scribner's, 1971) The Devil Is Dead (Avon, 1971). The Fall of Rome (1971). Seinare trykka opp att som Alaric: The Day the World Ended (United Mythologies Press, 1993). The Flame Is Green (Walker & Co., 1971). First in the unfinished Coscuin Chronicles. Okla Hannali (Doubleday, 1972) Not to Mention Camels (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976) Apocalypses (Pinnacle Books, 1977). Sett saman av Where Have You Been, Sandaliotis? og The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeney. Archipelago (Manuscript Press, 1979). Aurelia (Starblaze, 1982) Annals of Klepsis (Ace Books, 1983) Half a Sky (Corroboree, 1984). Serpent's Egg (Morrigan Publications, 1987) East of Laughter (Morrigan Publications, 1988) Sindbad: The Thirteenth Voyage (Broken Mirrors Press, 1989) The Elliptical Grave (United Mythologies Press, 1989). Dotty (United Mythologies Press, 1990) Tales of Chicago (United Mythologies Press, 1992). Tales of Midnight (United Mythologies Press, 1992). Argo (United Mythologies Press, 1992).
Novellesamlingar
The Six Fingers of Time and Other Stories (Macfadden Books, 1965) Nine Hundred Grandmothers (Ace Books, 1970) Strange Doings (Scribner's, 1972) Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? (Scribner's, 1974) Golden Gate and Other Stories (Corroboree, 1982) Through Elegant Eyes (Corroboree, 1983) Ringing Changes (Ace Books, 1984) Episodes of the Argo (United Mythologies Press, 1990) Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) (United Mythologies Press, 1991) Lafferty in Orbit (Broken Mirrors Press, 1991) Iron Tears (Edgewood Press, 1992)
Antologiar
The Collected Short Fiction (Centipede Press, 2014–2025) The Man Who Made Models – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 1 (2014) The Man With the Aura – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 2 (2015) The Man Underneath – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 3 (2015) The Man With The Speckled Eyes – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 4 (2017) The Man Who Walked Through Cracks – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 5 (2018) The Man Who Never Was – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 6 (2021) Mad Man – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 7 (2023) The Man Who Lost His Magic – The Collected Short Fiction Volume 8 (2025)
More Than Melchisedech (2015). Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master (Gollancz, 2018)
The Best of R. A. Lafferty (Gollancz, 2019; Tor, 2021)
Norske omsetjingar To av Lafferty sine noveller er omsette til norsk: «Alle stykkene fra en elvebredd» («All Pieces of a River Shore»), omsett av Thorstein Thelle i Donald A. Wollheim (red.): Tidsstormen (Fredhøis Forlag, utan år) (The 1972 Annual World's Best SF) «Treg tirsdag kveld» («Slow Tuesday Night»), omsett av Arne Moen i Bing & Bringsværd (red.): Nazar 1: Timeglass (Gyldendal Norsk Forlags Lanterne-bøker, 1975)
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