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.
Pirates in outer space.
Klepsis is one of the three most inelegant planets in the universe. Populated by pirates, the word is out, that if you are irish and have a peg-leg the transfer to Klepsis is free! The strange thing about this place is though, it has no history. Quite a challenge for historian Long John Tong (---hmm---) Tyrone.
Klepsis is one of the three most inelegant planets in the universe. Populated by pirates, the word is out, that if you are irish and have a peg-leg the transfer to Klepsis is free! The strange thing about this place is though, it has no history. Quite a challenge for historian Long John Tong (---hmm---) Tyrone.
There's treasure chests, maps, large castle parties, exploding heads, slave sales, massacres and the Doomsday equation which might bring it all to an end.
The absurde story reminds me to mushrooms experiences.
Didi Lafferty meet T. Leary?
It's been some years since I've read this one, but it remains in my memory as, quite possibly, my very favourite Lafferty novel. It does feel at times like a drug trip (and I think he blatantly introduces this element with the 'My God What Grapes!' hallucinogenic grapes). However, in the whole body of Lafferty's works it's easy to see he was strongly satirical about the use of drugs, finding them to be one more element of modernism that was making the world waste away into meaningless triviality and lack of drama and depth.
Anyway, even though this novel is one of the weirdest, I find it one of the most compelling, page-turning, adventurous reads. (I literally started over and read it right through again when I had finished it. Space Chantey is the only other novel of his that compelled this spontaneous action from me.)
I think Klepsis has great philosophical depth, but I didn't catch much of it at all in those first back-to-back reads. It was just sheer mad pleasure. I look forward to discovering what it's all about in the future. (For the more Lafferty I read, the more I see it's all 'about' something one way or the other - and the meaning is as beautiful and wild as the literary ride that takes us there.)