The Ants Of God Are Queer Fish

One pleas­ant af­ter­noon Ma­zuma O'Shaunes­sey was in jail in a little town in Scot­land. The jailer was gloomy and sus­pi­cious and...

Always want to post so many things, but too swamped with thesis work. Due to submit this September. (!!!!!!) For fun, here are some titles...

Can't believe it's been over a year since I posted on this blog! I've got the hankering today, so, instead of trying to craft a ...

[Cross-posted from Goodreads .] Four and a half stars. It's probably five stars in the sense of being one of the ‘high art’ novels tha...

There was the morning that Dana saw the whole fair landscape from horizon to horizon and realized that it was all on the inside of one very ...

A year or so ago someone asked me on Facebook where they should start with reading Lafferty. (I've been asked many times.) In response I...

Well, I finally read the very last words of the very last book ( Argo ) of the so-called The Devil is Dead trilogy, which is the novelis...

Academia and family have obviously kept me far too busy to keep up with this blog over the past many months.  (The last post was in late Feb...

This is the way they tell it.  A Skokie heard a Shelni jug flute jugging one night.  ‘That is the voice of my wife,’ the Skokie said. ‘...

Well, I've begun reading the last book of the so-called The Devil is Dead Trilogy.  That is, I'm reading  More Than Melchisidech Boo...

This is how they tell it. There was a woman who was neither Shelni nor Skokie nor Frog. She was Sky Woman. One day she came with her child...

It is told this way. There was a Shelni who lost his burial tooth before he died. Every Shelni begins life with six teeth, and he loses on...

The biggest Lafferty news of late is that he is finally being published again.  Only e-books for Kindle are available so far, and only in th...