Days full of love and death. The best. Lafferti R.A.

“In Tals, Oklahoma, there was a writer who at one time was the best author of short prose in the world. His name was R. A. Lafferti ”(Neil Gaiman).

For the first time in Russian - a selection of the best stories “The most original of our writers” (Jin Wolf), “Our North American Unrecognized Markes” (Terry Bisson), “The most crazy, colorful and unexpected author of the now living” ( Theodore Starjon), one of those “unique writers who created their own literary language from scratch” (Michael Suenwick). Separate stories of the modern classic have been translated by magazines and anthologies since the 1960s, but the book has been published for the first time. Moreover, each story is accompanied by a preface (and sometimes after the afterword) of such masters of the genre as Neil Heyman, Samuel Dileni, Harlan Ellison, Konni Willis, John Skalzi, Jeff Wandermer and many, many others, fascinated by his “paradoxes and contradictions... insane inventions and sharp humor ”(Michael Suenwick). Heroes of Lafferti can put on and lose four states in eight hours, hide a whole valley in a half -meter ditch, arrange a week of horror on the main street with the help of a seven -day endor, tear off the plans of Charles the Great, ride through a galaxy in a tin can, make a philosophical concept of iron, solve a mystery The valleys of old cosmlets on the planet of Bear Bear and win the Himatic Days at the God himself...

“He was a genre for himself, and his stories are different from anyone else: the rubble bikes that started in Ireland and arrived in Talsa, The state of Oklahoma, with transfers in heaven and on distant stars ”(Neil Gaiman).