R. A. Lafferty

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius
  • Place of Birth: Neola, Iowa, USA
  • Date of Birth: November 7, 1914
  • Date of Death: March 18, 2002

Notes:

R. A. Lafferty was born in Iowa, moved to Oklahoma when four years old, and has been there ever since except for travel and four and one-half years in the army. Lafferty described himself as "a correspondence school electrical engineer" who worked for electrical jobbers most of his life. (From <i>Past Master</i>.)

Titles:

Chapter Books

Collections

Essays

Interviews

Non-fiction

Novels

Omnibuses

Poems

Reviews

Serials

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 0000. Eurema's Dam - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. Entire and Perfect Chrysolite - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Royal Licorice - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Lafferty in Orbit - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Strange Doings - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. Barnaby's Clock - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Arrive at Easterwine - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ringing Changes - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Golden Gate and Other Stories - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Golden Gate - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Eurema's Dam - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Nine Hundred Grandmothers - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. Continued on Next Rock - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Continued on Next Rock - Nebula Award, Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Man with the Speckled Eyes - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Cliffs That Laughed - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Aurelia - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Half a Sky - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Devil Is Dead - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Entire and Perfect Chrysolite - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Continued on Next Rock - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fourth Mansions - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fourth Mansions - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Sky - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Man Who Made Models - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Past Master - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Devil Is Dead - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. World Abounding - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Iron Tears - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Iron Tears - Philip K. Dick Award, Philip K. Dick Award (Nomination)
  • 0000. Aurelia - Philip K. Dick Award, Philip K. Dick Award (Nomination)
  • 0000. Lafferty in Orbit - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Continued on Next Rock - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Primary Education of the Camiroi - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination)
  • 0000. Slow Tuesday Night - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. In Our Block - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mud Violet - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Best of R. A. Lafferty - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Past Master - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Episodes of the Argo - Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, Best Short Science Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Among the Hairy Earthmen - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Golden Trabant - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Reefs of Earth - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination below cutoff)

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