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R.A. Lafferty: "The Greatest Catholic Novelist You Never Heard of" (2018)
Who is R.A. Lafferty? A man who drank a lot and sold electronics in Tulsa, Oklahoma. No wait! That’s not the important thing. The important thing is that Lafferty soldiered off to the Pacific during World War II and disappeared on Willie Jones Island. Oh shoot, that’s not the important thing, either. The important thing […]
Gene Wolfe, who is arguably the greatest living Catholic science fiction writer, wrote a loving homage to Lafferty called, “Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?” It features a cranky old man from Tulsa named Roy T. Laffer. (By tribal adoption, Lafferty’s name was “Writes With A Dead Pan of the Choctaw.”) Arrive at Easterwine is the autobiography of the computer Epiktistes, the search for the meaning and the shape of the universe, and the discovery that it is a cosmic shroud. Diogenes Pontifex is barred from membership of the Institute of Impure Science in Arrive at Easterwine by the Minimum Decency Rule: “he accepted the Full Revelation and he rejected the Liberal Consensus.” The answer to the devil’s challenge lies in the Catholic faith.
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