Okla Hannali, Past Master, Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (7 November 1914 – 18 Maret 2002) adalah seorang penulis fiksi ilmiah dan fantasi asal Amerika yang dikenal atas pemakaian aslinya dari bahasa, metafora dan struktur naratif,[1] serta untuk kemampuan etimologinya. Ia juga menulis sebuah set empat novel autobiografi, In a Green Tree; sebuah buku sejarah, The Fall of Rome; dan beberapa novel fiksi sejarah.
^Gene Wolfe wrote in an introduction to Episodes of the Argo that "[Lafferty may be] the most original writer in the history of literature"; Michael Swanwick has written that "if there were no Lafferty, we would lack the imagination to invent him", this is quoted on the back cover of the original edition of Lafferty in Orbit; Neil Gaiman has said that "[Lafferty's] stories are without precedent"; Harlan Ellison has written that "Lafferty defies categorization; his work is unlike anyone else's"... See "Quotations about Lafferty" for more: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty
"The Flame is Green" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal July 16, 2012), an essay and review of Lafferty's (non-SF) novel of revolutionary Europe, by John J. Reilly
"Past Master" - a review by Bill McClain at watershade.net
