'Lafferty? Lafferty? He's that Oklahoma troll who's been bamboozling us for years with his indescribable and impossible stories. (Who but Lafferty would write a story whose main characters are a ghost, a sawdust-filled doll, and an Australopithecus?) His work has been published all over the lot, though he's best known outside the science-fiction world for his powerful novel of the American Indians,
Okla Hannali. An issue of New Dimensions wouldn't be complete without him.'
-Robert Silverberg, intro blurb to Lafferty's story 'Animal Fair' in
New Dimensions IV (1974)
"That Oklahoma troll," love it!
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