I first encountered Lafferty in one of the Carr/Wolheim "best sf" collections more years ago than I want to calculate. The story was "Continued on Next Rock." Ever since then I have been collecting all the Lafferty I could find. I regularly make the rounds of the used book stores in Wichita (where I live) and buy any copies of any Lafferty I find, which I then send to nephews and nieces and intelligent friends. Used book stores, incidentally, are the best hunting grounds for Lafferty's mass market editions. I usually find a copy or two of "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" each year and occasionally some of his other Ace titles or "Ringing Changes."
The other good source for Lafferty's books is Chris Drumm Books, P.O. Box 445, Polk City, IA 50226-0445, phone/fax 515-984-6749, email
cdrummbks@aol.com Book Catalog #108, the most recent, lists two copies of "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" and one of "Past Master."
Amazingly, I have had the good fortune to find three other living, breathing, Lafferty devotees. Two of them are close friends.
There is a fanzine devoted to Lafferty, "The Boomer Flats Gazette." It is the product of Dan Knight at United Mythologies press. I obtained my copies through Chris Drumm.
I'm glad to find this page. I'll be back.