R.A. Lafferty Devotional Page




The Works

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. Excellent is a story that I'd recommend to anyone. OK is a story a Lafferty fan would like. Lame 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.

SERPENT'S EGG

Von Nat! am 22.10.03 1:30 | Keine Kommentare
The world in 2035 is populated by computers, smart apes and humans - animals are talking again. In this setting the story of three, later twelve genius children evolves - only a few of them being human at all. Are these super-mega-children maybe too much for this world to handle. Is one of the kids the serpent's egg  

This story has a nice flow, the first chapters are great but in the end it seems the author wasn't really sure how to get clean out of the chaos he produced. In a way a failure, but fun to read anyway. This book wins by style not by content.  

This book is a bit too similiar to The Reefs of Earth, which overall is the better and more coherent book. So mark this one down accordingly, it's still too good to be considered "lame". 

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