R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (7 November 1914 – 18 Maret 2002) adalah seorang penulis fiksi ilmiah dan fantasi asal Amerika yang dikenal atas pemakaian aslinya dari bahasa, metafora dan struktur naratif,[1] serta untuk kemampuan etimologinya. Ia juga menulis sebuah set empat novel autobiografi, In a Green Tree; sebuah buku sejarah, The Fall of Rome; dan beberapa novel fiksi sejarah.
R. A. Lafferty | |
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 Lafferty di perpustakaannya pada 1998 | |
| Lahir | Raphael Aloysius Lafferty 7 November 1914 Neola, Iowa, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 18 Maret 2002 (umur 87) Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, AS |
| Pekerjaan | Novelis, pengarang cerpen |
| Genre | Fiksi ilmiah, Fantasi |
| Karya terkenal | Okla Hannali, Past Master, Nine Hundred Grandmothers |
Bacaan tambahan sunting
- R. A. Lafferty (1990), Cranky old man from Tulsa: interviews with R.A. Lafferty, Weston, Ontario, Canada: United Mythologies Press, ISBN 092132216X, OCLC 26768241, 092132216X[1]
- Andrew Ferguson (January 2012), "Unpublished Lafferty: 1", NYRSF (281)
Referensi sunting
- ^ Gene Wolfe wrote in an introduction to Episodes of the Argo that "[Lafferty may be] the most original writer in the history of literature"; Michael Swanwick has written that "if there were no Lafferty, we would lack the imagination to invent him", this is quoted on the back cover of the original edition of Lafferty in Orbit; Neil Gaiman has said that "[Lafferty's] stories are without precedent"; Harlan Ellison has written that "Lafferty defies categorization; his work is unlike anyone else's"... See "Quotations about Lafferty" for more: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty
Pranala luar sunting
Wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan dengan: R. A. Lafferty.
- (Inggris) R. A. Lafferty di Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Karya R. A. Lafferty di Project Gutenberg
- "R. A. Lafferty: Winner of the 2002 Cordwainer Smith Foundation "Rediscovery" Award
- R. A. Lafferty Devotional Page
- R. A. Lafferty: Effective Arcanum - a critical examination of aspects of Lafferty's prose
- "And They Took the Sky Off at Night" Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine. - an appreciation of Lafferty by editor Brian Cholfin
- "The Devil is Dead" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal September 17, 2009), a review by Steve Hooley
- "The Flame is Green" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal July 16, 2012), an essay and review of Lafferty's (non-SF) novel of revolutionary Europe, by John J. Reilly
- "Past Master" - a review by Bill McClain at watershade.net
- "Okla Hannali" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal September 27, 2007), a book review and generous sampler
- Collection of obituaries
- Article on Lafferty at Everything2
- University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of the R. A. Lafferty collection housed in their special collections department
- University of Iowa's page on their special collection of his papers
- "The Cranky Old Man of Tulsa" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal October 27, 2009)
- "A Few Words About R. A. Lafferty"
- "Despair and the Duck Lady" Diarsipkan 2015-09-17 di Wayback Machine., Profile of Lafferty by Michael Swanwick
- "R.A. Lafferty: An Attempt at an Appreciation"
- The Ants of God Are Queer Fish - R. A. Lafferty Blog
- Review by Ann Cecil
- Review of The Reefs of Earth
- Past Masters: Secret Crocodiles and Strange Doings (or Sometimes the Magic Really Works) di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal September 17, 2013) by Bud Webster at Grantville Gazette
- Continued on Next Rock - a chronological discussion of R. A. Lafferty's work sorted by the date written by Andrew Ferguson on Tumblr
- Yet Another Lafferty Blog
- "Past Master by R. A. Lafferty", a review at the MPorcius Fiction Log
- "I WANT A DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE THING, ", A Lafferty Blog
- RALafferty.org, index to reviews and tributes
- Feast of Laughter Diarsipkan 2015-10-25 di Wayback Machine., a semi-annual fanzine dedicated to R. A. Lafferty
Karya yang tersedia di dunia maya sunting
- Karya R. A. Lafferty di Project Gutenberg
- Karya oleh/tentang R. A. Lafferty di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
- Karya R. A. Lafferty di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
- "Guesting Time" at Baen Books
- Narrow Valley di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal August 13, 2004)
- Nine Hundred Grandmothers di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal January 24, 2008)
- The Six Fingers of Time
- Slow Tuesday Night di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal October 12, 2007)
- The Transcendent Tigers di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal December 30, 2007)
