Short Fiction

R. A. Lafferty’s collected short fiction is a whirlwind tour through the truly peculiar corners of the universe, where the rules of reality bend like a spoon in a psychic's hand. From time-traveling police detectives grappling with the etiquette of the future to interstellar explorers encountering civilizations built on dreams and demographic surveys, Lafferty masterfully blends folk tales, tall tales, and pure, unadulterated science fiction. Expect stories of perplexing inventions, human-alien encounters both profound and absurd, and the strange, often hilarious, predicaments of humanity spread across the cosmos and the backwoods of Florida.