A group of us rabid Lafferty fans have just put together a new Lafferty fanzine called "Feast of Laughter" It is available from Amazon:
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/0692324100/
UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/d/0692324100/
FR:
http://www.amazon.fr/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/d/0692324100/
DE:
http://www.amazon.de/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/0692324100/
ES:
http://www.amazon.es/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/0692324100/
IT:
http://www.amazon.it/Feast-Laughter-Issue-Ktistec-Press/dp/0692324100/
It is also available as a free PDF download at
http://www.feastoflaughter.org/This was a labor of love by 20 contributors, including stories by J Simon and Michael Bishop, essays by Andrew Ferguson and Eric Walker, original poetry, A cover created especially for us by Lissanne Lake, whose artwork graced many of Lafferty's novels, and "The Six Fingers of Time" by the man himself!
We are soliciting contributions for the second edition, scheduled for publication on March 18, 2015. The deadline for submissions is February 20, 2015. If you are interested in contributing, please email me at
editor@feastoflaughter.org.
We are trying to secure the rights to another Lafferty story to include, and are soliciting content from other SF luminaries who are Lafferty fans. No word yet on any of those details, but I'll let all contributors and prospective contributors know as soon as possible. In the mean time, here is the table of contents from the Centenary First Edition, released on November 7, 2014 - Lafferty's 100th Birthday.
Happy Century of Lafferty everyone!
Feast of Laughter
An Appreciation of R. A. Lafferty
Centenary First Edition - November 7, 2014
Table of Contents
The Origin of the Feast - introduction by Kevin Cheek - 2
Talking About Talking About Lafferty - by Kevin Cheek - 6
Laffertography - by Rich Persaud - 7
A Few Words About R. A. Lafferty - by Eric Walker - 9
If You do not Love Words: The Pleasure of Reading Lafferty -by Elaine Cochrane - 24
An Interview with John Pelan - by John Owen - 38
Lafferty Deserves a Documentary -a call to action by Andrew Mass - 45
Aloysius Ascending - by David Cruces - 47
An Instinct for Friendship - by John Owen - 49
To Be Continued? - by John Barach - 57
Up Close, and in Particular - by Martin Heavisides - 62
Hillary Ardri and Jane Chantal Ardri - Illustration by Lydia Petersen - 66
The Epic of Man and His Friends or Slumming It With the Ontic Outcasts - by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen - 67
Aeviternity: R.A. Lafferty’s Thomistic Philosophy of Time in the Argo Cycle - by Gregorio Montejo - 102
Some notes on play, time and Catholic Social Teaching in R.A. Lafferty - by John Ellison - 115
O Golden, O Silken, O Mother-Loving World! - an original story - by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen - 126
The Prybar Spiel - by Noah Wareness - 146
The Woman Who Wondered What Onions Think - by J Simon - 154
Of Crystalline Labyrinths and the New Creation - by Michael Bishop - 169
The Six Fingers of Time - an essay by Andrew Ferguson - 195
The Six Fingers of Time - a review by Kevin A. Cheek - 199
The Six Fingers of Time - by R. A. Lafferty - 202
List of Contributors - 240