This is a list of all known shortstories, that Lafferty wrote. I allowed myself the liberty to give a short critique to each story I've read. is a story that I'd recommend to anyone. is a story a Lafferty fan would like. are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.
You can now add your own comments to each story if you like, or read what other readers wrote.
This was my first R.A. Lafferty Story. It's still my favorite! This story gave me a new understanding of time on a galactic scale. It also got me collecting his short stories in whatever anthologies I could find. My other favorites are Primary Education of the Camiroi and Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies.
I expanded on the theme of the story, i.e., six monkeys typing randomly on typewriters to produce the complete works of Shakespeare, on my web page at:
http://david.tribble.com/text/monkeys.htm
I do the math on how long it would actually take, and yes, it's a long, long time.
Of course, my little mathematical exercise does not do justice to Lafferty's wonderful little story.
is a story a Lafferty fan would like. 
are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.
Shakespeare, Monkeys, Typewriter, Archangels, Fun
This was my first R.A. Lafferty Story. It's still my favorite! This story gave me a new understanding of time on a galactic scale. It also got me collecting his short stories in whatever anthologies I could find. My other favorites are Primary Education of the Camiroi and Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies.
Also my first R.A. Lafferty story.
I expanded on the theme of the story, i.e., six monkeys typing randomly on typewriters to produce the complete works of Shakespeare, on my web page at:
http://david.tribble.com/text/monkeys.htm
I do the math on how long it would actually take, and yes, it's a long, long time.
Of course, my little mathematical exercise does not do justice to Lafferty's wonderful little story.