An annotated guide to criticism, reviews, and Italian editions
Sources checked through 16 September 2026. The guide records the material located and examined; inaccessible pages and unindexed print writing leave gaps.
Italian readers encountered Lafferty in Galaxy in 1962, when Renata Forti translated “Snuffles” as “Snoffols.” The novels followed in the 1970s through Nord and La Tribuna. Those editions brought him readers who took his arguments about utopia, religion, and reason seriously, and did not always agree with him. Italian publication records.
Past Master has drawn particularly divided responses. J. Rodolfo Wilcock praises the novel’s vitality while saying that readers need not accept its Catholic argument. The Un’Ambigua Utopia collective reads its defence of imperfection with reservations about the Church’s role. Massimo Luciani admires the imagination while finding the author uncongenial. These disagreements belong alongside the appreciations. Wilcock; Un’Ambigua Utopia; Luciani.
The fanzine essays preserve explicit disagreements about Lafferty’s Catholicism and his treatment of reason. Luciano Maleti finds a reactionary individualism behind the comic inventions. Marcello Bonati defends their imaginative freedom, while Silvio Migliaccio argues that their apparent disorder follows a Catholic narrative logic. Antonio Caronia’s 1985 essay approaches the question through scientific method, finding a defence of inquiry in “Marsilia V” and other stories. Maleti; Bonati; Migliaccio; Caronia.
The stories have their own extensive reception. Biblioteca Galattica reviews all forty-two stories in Storie di altri universi separately. Gennaro Fucile’s essay on the omnibus connects the inventions to Irish storytelling and Catholic questions, while objecting to choices in the Italian text. The individual reviews, translation arguments, and earlier print criticism are gathered below. Biblioteca Galattica’s collection review; Fucile’s essay.
Essays and profiles are ordered by publication date where known. Later republications and translations of English criticism are identified.
Caronia places Lafferty and Disch at the centre of a science fiction that dissolves the boundary between reality and imagination. His introduction connects this shift to theories of simulation and to writing that questions the social and political work of language and inherited literary conventions.
Using Umberto Eco’s account of reading, Migliaccio disputes claims that Lafferty is obscure or indifferent to his audience. Familiar narrative situations establish expectations that biblical allusions and impossible events deliberately overturn. The resulting disruption asks readers to adopt a different logic. Character doubles, recurring sevens, and liturgical chronology make that logic specifically Catholic, rather than arbitrary or psychological. Migliaccio also challenges Nicolazzini’s separation of form and content: meaning arises from their interaction.
Caronia argues that Lafferty’s fantastic disruptions of reality can illuminate scientific thinking. He reads “Marsilia V” as a defense of observation and scientific method, “Eurema’s Dam” through Kuhn’s distinction between normal and revolutionary science, and “Fall of Pebble-Stones” through provisional explanations and an unconventional application of Occam’s razor. He distinguishes Lafferty’s restrictive Catholic conception of legitimate science from hostility to scientific inquiry, connecting the fiction to contemporary debates about models and knowledge.
Marben recommends Strange Doings and considers Past Master more approachable than Fourth Mansions or The Devil Is Dead.
Fantagufo admires Lafferty’s absurdity and biblical expansiveness. His rankings place Annals of Klepsis among the masterpieces and “Three Shadows of the Wolf” last.
Maxpullo revises his verdict: Space Chantey’s episodic construction, literary allusions, and parody become rewarding. Associazione genitori e insegnanti impresses him through educational satire, violence, and images of time and evolution. He rates the novel seven and the collection seven-and-a-half.
Discussing Serge Brussolo, Maxpullo places Lafferty alongside Ballard and Lovecraft among writers whose work exceeds entertainment through its visual and emotional effects. In a follow-up he makes the comparison concrete through images from “Narrow Valley,” “Ginny Wrapped in the Sun,” and “Nine Hundred Grandmothers.”
A later reading update qualifies Maxpullo’s earlier enthusiasm. He calls La banda di Barnaby Sheen very disappointing and Past Master rather boring before turning to more rewarding discoveries by David Guy Compton and David Brin. The Lafferty judgments occupy only a short opening passage.
Maxpullo credits ansible with helping him rediscover an author he had disliked. His year-end list rates Space Chantey seven, the two Italian portions of Nine Hundred Grandmothers seven-and-a-half and seven, The Reefs of Earth and La banda di Barnaby Sheen six-and-a-half, and Past Master six, the last with an explicit qualification of respect.
Luciani’s centenary profile traces Lafferty’s late start, military service, novels and retirement from writing. He connects the author’s cult following and divided reception to fragmented plots, extravagant characters, classical references and inventive language. The overview also introduces Okla Hannali and explains the unusual publication sequence of the Argo books.
In a thread soliciting the worst Urania novel, zecca_2000 proposes any Lafferty anthology, grouping them with novels by Alfred Bester as works without a plot. The remark is brief and unsupported by examples.
Marco.kapp includes L’equazione del giorno del giudizio and La banda di Barnaby Sheen in a list of disliked Urania volumes, without giving reasons for either choice.
Bartoli praises Lafferty’s wit, warmth and imagination, mentions his interest in Native American history and lists his Italian editions. This two-page tribute closes with a quotation from Space Chantey about grace and good humour resisting the world’s bitterness.
Reviews are grouped alphabetically by English title, then ordered by date. Italian headings identify the editions and the original articles.
Lato considers this a comparatively accessible entrance to Lafferty’s cosmology, but rejects calling it minor. Beneath the apparent disorder he finds a serious inquiry into literature and tradition: the inspired bard, philosophical banquet, and Gothic double recur in freely combined forms. Plot resolution matters less than the reversals of telling. By allowing ghosts and living people equal reality, Lafferty restores a mythic continuity that positivism had broken and resists standardized commercial storytelling.
Sacconi attacks the reverential reception that, he argues, protects every Lafferty book from honest criticism. He finds Annals of Klepsis an incoherent procession of pirates, ghosts, transformations, and baroque inventions, with no effective plot. The familiar conflict between chaos and reality survives, but is buried beneath empty cleverness. Contrasting the novel with the achievements of Past Master and Fourth Mansions, he condemns both authorial self-indulgence and the publisher’s reliance on a celebrated name.
Bonati finds greater conceptual complexity here than in The Devil Is Dead, while insisting that philosophical and religious questions remain entertaining. The dying Quasimodo, whose mind contains the universe, makes the relation between subjective and objective reality concrete. Biblical creation and sacrificial death supply another organizing pattern. Direct addresses, contradictions, puns, and repeated phrases keep these themes playful. Bonati treats the making of Klepsis’s history as an evolving collaboration between author and reader.
Maxpullo rejects Annals of Klepsis after three rereadings and initially struggles with Space Chantey, asking readers how to approach Lafferty’s humor.
In a survey of mathematical apocalypse stories, Tomatis devotes one section to Annals of Klepsis. He describes its universe as a three-dimensional ellipse whose unstable third focus threatens existence, then quotes Karl Sayon on the need for mathematical progress. Tomatis places the novel alongside religious numerology, the television series Lost and modern doomsday speculation, citing the 1984 Urania edition and page number.
The entry calls this Lafferty’s most representative novel, though not his best. Overlapping realities and the older people living among ordinary humans link it with the earlier novels. Predatory rationality confronts a defence of life voiced by drunkards, dryads, and Scottish policemen, with social implications.
The essay argues that Lafferty turns two supposed weaknesses of science fiction into strengths: its reputation for implausible invention and its handling of serious social themes. His deliberate lies generate multiple interpretations, while his human devil unsettles familiar divisions between alien and human. The voyage, unstable identities, and deliberately evasive introduction also undermine contemporary narrative experimentation. A comparison with Jacques Sadoul’s account of Fourth Mansions emphasizes the impossibility of summarizing this fiction adequately.
The entry reads rational perfection as a destructive force: Cathead preserves the freedom to err and suffer. It questions the Church’s role in Lafferty’s defence of irrationality, while seeing More’s death as the beginning of another historical cycle in the struggle between being and nonbeing.
Scacco objects to the fictional Thomas More’s uncertain faith and account of Utopia as a joke, which he sees as distortions of the historical Catholic humanist. He allows that programmed mental manipulation within the novel may explain these discrepancies. More’s final refusal to accept a ban on belief in an afterlife restores the connection with martyrdom. Despite his reservations, Scacco praises the book’s bizarre allegory, forceful apocalyptic scenes, and refusal of conventional narrative expectations.
Asked whether science fiction can express Christian humanism, Scacco names Past Master as a science fictional reenactment of Thomas More’s martyrdom. He pairs Lafferty with Walter M. Miller Jr. to argue that the genre includes a serious religious dimension despite its frequent anti-religious and scientistic tendencies. The mention occurs within a larger educational argument for using imaginative speculation to prepare young readers for technological and social change.
Barbieri welcomes the reissue of Past Master and celebrates its proliferating stories, sarcasm and disregard for orderly explanation. He draws attention to chosen poverty, compulsory benevolence and the reconstruction of the world, then treats Lafferty’s conservative self-description with the same suspicion he gives the author’s other tall tales. He prefers the short stories but recommends the novel as a source of pleasure and mental disturbance.
Luciani reads Past Master as a satire of material utopia and an argument for spiritual purpose. He discusses its quest structure, proliferating subplots and symbolism, and questions its treatment of the historical Thomas More. He admires Lafferty’s imagination but finds the author uncongenial, recommending the novel chiefly to readers interested in its religious and philosophical concerns.
Rai places Past Master closer to Voltaire and Swift than to conventional space opera. Thomas More’s journey through a failing material utopia becomes a mixture of satire, social criticism, and philosophy. The reviewer acknowledges its difficulty and eccentric verbal inventions, but insists that humor, a discernible plot, and memorable characters make it compelling. He awards four stars and quotes Vittorio Catani on Lafferty’s pessimistic mockery of technological dreams.
Wilcock contrasts the vitality of Past Master with the lifeless prestige novels promoted by Italian literary institutions. He situates Nord’s edition within efforts to repair science fiction’s poor treatment through translation and editorial selection. After describing Thomas More’s journey to Astrobe, he cites Riccardo Valla’s interpretation of the novel as conservative Catholic allegory and a defense of the irrational, while insisting that readers need not share its thesis to find it compelling.
A sustained unfavorable review follows Thomas More into Astrobe’s divided utopia and interprets its decline through the disappearance of faith and meaningful human goals. The reviewer recognizes the novel’s unusual religious argument but finds its dreamlike sequence of metaphors, proliferating characters, and obscure causal connections frustrating. A lengthy spoiler synopsis accompanies the criticism; numerical scores are two for idea, one for plot, and two for style.
The Reefs of Earth deepens Maxpullo’s admiration for Lafferty’s language, imagery, and concealed literary references.
Tavosanis interprets Lafferty’s vanishing characters, surreal dialogue, and unstable plots as an attempt to recover forms of thought older than printing and conventional novelistic coherence. Biblical and Homeric models extend here into the Arabian Nights, mixed with the familiar Astrobe and Camiroi universe. An anachronistic encounter in Baghdad illustrates how association overrides ordinary time and space. The result can bewilder readers, but its distinctive mixture offers pleasure and relief from predictable genre fiction.
Bonati describes the novel as an elaborate learned joke that combines the Sinbad legend with Lafferty’s own inventions. Familiarity with the Arabian Nights increases the reader’s enjoyment, although this dependence on prior knowledge may also limit its audience. He praises the dense and complicated prose for remaining readable and entertaining. The review ends by calling for more Italian translations, measuring the small available selection against the much larger body of novels and collections.
Piccinini places two Lafferty novels in a survey of maritime literature adapted to space. Sindbad: The 13th Voyage recalls Calvino’s Invisible Cities for him. Space Chantey follows Homer’s narrative while drawing its humour from the tradition of Mark Twain. These are brief judgments within an essay that also describes Piccinini’s own use of seafaring fiction.
Abate traces Lafferty’s defense of individuality from Space Chantey’s frontier hero through the Puca children to Thomas More’s resistance to mass conformity. He finds the satire increasingly sophisticated, but questions the proposed remedies. Past Master’s recovery of precapitalist labor, pain, and religion ignores historical and economic processes; Fourth Mansions relocates utopia into individual mental health. Comparing the latter with Delany’s Triton, Abate argues that personal sanity cannot by itself repair collective institutions and conventions.
Fabriani argues that two supposedly minor novels reveal the range of Lafferty’s talent. Space Chantey reworks the Odyssey through Rabelaisian grotesque comedy, treating mythological material with irreverence. The Reefs of Earth draws instead on Mark Twain’s Mississippi country and makes its alien family feel legendary rather than conventionally science fictional. In both books, plot matters less than the density, physical vividness, and absorbing magic of the prose.
Ansible defends Space Chantey’s episodic Odyssey parody, folk-tale language, and grotesque characters. His claims about Lafferty’s later decline remain unverified.
In this history of Vaughn Bodé’s illustration work, Landi discusses the cover and nine black-and-white illustrations for the 1968 Ace Space Chantey. He reproduces artwork, identifies the novel as a retelling of the Odyssey and notes that the 1976 Italian Galassia edition used a different cover.
Ciannella examines Rambelli’s 1977 essay on the uses of myth in science fiction. Discussing Space Chantey alongside an Italian adaptation of the Odyssey, Rambelli asks what a closer study of Homer and related traditions might produce. Ciannella places that question within her criticism of writers’ limited mythological resources and her account of her own practice. The Lafferty passage is brief within a sustained study of Rambelli.
Bartoli gives Space Chantey five stars and argues that its absurdity conveys difficult ethical ideas. He reads the corollary of compassion as a lesson in respect for vulnerable people and presents Lafferty as a teacher whose comedy and poetry deserve study. He also praises Gianni Montanari’s Italian translation.
Answering Maleti’s suspicion of irrationalism, Bonati defends Lafferty’s fantasy as a joyous escape from pedantry and rigid explanatory systems. He follows mythic comedy in Space Chantey, the Puca children’s disruption of everyday rules, Past Master’s failed utopia, and the dreamlike episodes of The Devil Is Dead. Although he recognizes the Christian morality of Fourth Mansions, he would prefer its revolutionary mind network to triumph. Personal pleasure and imaginative freedom matter more here than ideological consistency.
Collections come first, followed by individual stories in alphabetical order. Separate responses to the same work appear together.
Placereani locates Lafferty’s fantastic quality in language itself, connecting his extravagant lies with rural American folklore, folk songs, Boccaccio, and Rabelais. The short stories work better than the novels because extending their formula can produce an indefinitely expandable chain of episodes. Their cruelty is playful and liberating rather than conventionally symbolic. Readers impose interpretive codes on ambiguous events, much as they do in life; calling Lafferty conservative and Catholic therefore fails to settle his fiction’s meaning.
Sherdan abandoned Come si chiamava quella città? but remembers its title story and the grotesque, funny Camiroi story.
Ballio introduces the Italian omnibus through Lafferty’s unusual language, metaphors, narrative structures, and humor. Drawing heavily on Neil Gaiman’s appreciation, he argues that Lafferty created a literary category of his own, with affinities to Irish comedy, American storytelling, and Chesterton that cannot fully explain his originality. The piece identifies the three English collections represented and names several stories Lafferty particularly valued, inviting readers to reconsider a writer who had influenced major successors.
Fucile presents Lafferty’s implausibility as a liberation of science fiction from inherited rules. The Camiroi stories expose narrow assumptions about education, while “Snuffles” turns an apparently simple exploration tale toward creation, perception, and divine mystery. Irish storytelling and Catholic questions inform the comic inventiveness. Welcoming the Italian omnibus, Fucile nevertheless criticizes retained printing errors and translation decisions, especially renaming “The Hole on the Corner” with another English title, “Help! Help!”.
This collection review describes the volume as an entertaining, generally competent selection dominated by humorous or satirical science fiction. It singles out “Nine Hundred Grandmothers,” both Camiroi stories, “Slow Tuesday Night,” and “McGruder’s Marvels.” The page links forty-two individually rated story notices, including several strongly negative responses that complicate its favorable overall impression.
The entry prefers comparison with Disch to the usual Zelazny parallel. Doubles, conflicting temporal orders, and uncertain dreams dissolve ordinary reality. Art and science become entangled in the worlds they describe, while Lafferty’s own elusive narrative methods resist the critic’s attempts to explain their effects.
Maleti admires the stories’ humor and ingenuity but rejects treating them as innocent entertainment. Their independent heroes, children, and Indigenous outsiders oppose mass society; their magic and attacks on progress, evolution, and psychoanalysis disclose, in his reading, a reactionary Catholic individualism. He argues that narrative estrangement leads readers from ordinary reality through fantasy toward transcendence, requiring an act of faith that diminishes reason. This deliberately contentious ideological reading becomes the foil for Bonati’s companion essay.
Catani chooses Strange Doings as an occasion to praise Lafferty’s short fiction, which he prefers to the novels. He locates its originality in explosive prose, paradoxical ideas, and the mixture of science with unrestricted fantasy. The fragmented worlds convey skepticism, disenchantment, mystery, and irony. His favorites extend beyond this collection and include “Snuffles,” “Slow Tuesday Night,” and “Rainbird,” the last singled out as perhaps the finest time travel story.
Ippolito describes Lafferty’s method as transforming familiar science-fiction themes through tall tales, conflicting narrators, shifting time, and imaginary documents. He connects the extravagant prose and religious imagination with Chesterton, and praises Paolo Busnelli’s translation while wishing to compare the original. Rereading proves difficult because he feels less able to follow Lafferty than in his youth. He ends with an affectionate account of “You Can’t Go Back” and its lost childhood world.
The notice identifies Tony as a limited person, effectively an android, assigned to monitor everyone in the world for an anomaly. Idea and plot receive two out of five; style receives three.
The reviewer dismisses the story of Barnaby Sheen’s companions discussing pseudoscience and alternative chronologies as eccentric. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The notice describes an alien invasion carried out through the gradual occupation of human bodies and calls the story odd. The entry gives two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
Buttaboni praises “Berryhill” for its macabre irony in treating the haunted-house theme. The judgment appears in a review of Hypnos 14, which presents three authors’ approaches to that theme.
The reader describes a worldwide outbreak of intellectual appetite so intense that even pornography shops sell difficult scientific works. Roy Mega and Austro appear in the synopsis. Idea and style receive two out of five; plot receives one.
Within a history of artificial humans from ancient mythology to robots, Caronia reads Lafferty’s animated statue as a challenge to Enlightenment confidence in comprehensive rational explanation. The statue outlives its creator and joins revolutionaries, exposing the bloody consequences that Lafferty associates with reducing experience to reason. Caronia explicitly connects this critique with the author’s unconventional Catholicism.
Caronia places Lafferty beside Borges in the literary afterlife of Condillac’s thought experiment. He traces the statue’s belief in innate values, its prediction of revolutionary violence, and its attachment to property after receiving stolen gold. The reading identifies a conservative critique of Enlightenment rationalism and Benthamite utility, while qualifying that Lafferty attacks his own version of the Enlightenment. The statue’s eventual disconnection leads into the essay’s discussion of machines, life, and death.
The reviewer finds the story’s treatment of a philosophical controversy amusing. Condillac’s enormous sculpted head receives its senses one by one in an attempt to disprove innate ideas. Idea and style receive three out of five; plot receives two.
The reviewer rejects the story as confused, describes its references to Native Americans as only pseudo-references, and finds little narrative construction. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The review follows Elroy Hunt’s failure to enter an amusement park through doors designed to exclude dogs. It characterizes the story as strange and acknowledges its surprise ending, while judging the execution somewhat sketchy.
The notice presents the story as a response to resource scarcity: an ideal animal would eat almost nothing, reproduce quickly, and supply excellent meat. Its concluding question concerns the possibility of producing such a creature merely by drawing it.
This unsigned reading treats Albert’s inventions as a response to the distance society creates between him and supposedly normal people. Machines compensate for his difficulties in school, courtship, and adult life, eventually occupying positions of power. The critic reads the story as an unusually effective use of science fiction’s wonder to address physical and mental difference. Its target is a society that suppresses individuality and defines acceptable life around the healthy and conventionally capable.
The review describes Albert’s apparent inability to perform ordinary tasks and the extraordinary inventions through which he compensates for those limitations. It finds the story eccentric and repeatedly disorienting for the reader. Both Italian titles are preserved on the page, which links the entry to Storie di altri universi and the Italian Hugo anthology.
The reviewer sketches the predicament of a children’s reference-book editor who must explain the pebbles left beneath gutters after rain. The verdict acknowledges intermittent amusement but regards the narrative as insufficiently grounded.
The unfavorable note summarizes Garamask’s journey to Paravata for an exceptionally difficult hunt. The reviewer finds the narrative hard to understand and apparently lacking in meaning, while allowing that an interpretation might be concealed beneath its surface.
The notice concentrates on four-year-old Ginny’s ability to command other children and on the suggestion that she inaugurates a new human species. The entry gives two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
The note describes a bar patron’s obsession with the villain in the establishment’s melodramatic entertainment. It explicitly considers the story outside genuine science fiction. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The reviewer sketches the increasingly crowded arrival of the Skandians, their equally mysterious departure, and the threat that remains at the end. The story is received as a brief, entertaining, and unusually conceived alien invasion.
The note describes a machine capable of eliminating useless things and signals the danger that its definition of uselessness may extend to people. The reviewer calls it amusing and credits the surprise ending, despite awarding only two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
The reviewer interprets the disintegrating domestic world through overlapping parallel realities called gestalts, but finds the result somewhat confused. A comparison with “Snuffles” receives particular attention: its unexpectedly low planetary gravity is reconsidered in relation to Earth’s accumulated realities. The notice thus identifies a connection across Lafferty’s stories despite its reservations about execution.
The note describes two friends returning to an old street, where small houses apparently manufacture objects without machinery and other events defy explanation. The piece is situated on the borders of absurdity. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The review describes an alternative America of small settlements linked by legally limited tramways, where motorcars and motorists are treated as absolute evils. It reads the setting as a new Arcadia integrating humanity and nature without pollution. The entry identifies the work as alternate history and gives equal midrange scores for idea, plot, and style.
The review describes the alien intervention offered as an explanation for the Roma diaspora from India. It accepts that the central idea may be original but finds the resulting narrative confused.
The synopsis places the story in New Guinea during a war against opponents whose human or alien nature remains uncertain. It concentrates on an eccentric officer’s interest in botany and his eventual acquisition of his subordinates’ respect. The entry gives two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
The note follows a former flea-circus proprietor who supplies precision mechanisms through workers of successively smaller scales. It commends the ending and, especially, the final explanatory surprise. Its attention to nested levels of miniature labor accompanies high scores for conception and style, while the plot receives a somewhat more restrained evaluation.
The synopsis follows Padreco Barnaby’s mission to convert the inhabitants of Analos under Pope Pius XV’s instructions. Their seemingly sinless civilization conceals a different reality. The reviewer finds the macabre conclusion somewhat predictable and judges the work short on originality, giving its underlying idea a lower score than plot or prose.
The reviewer finds the topology-changing spell on a Native American valley inventive and the humorous treatment entertaining, despite an insufficient plot. A separate spoiler synopsis describes the valley’s misleading appearance and the pressure from white purchasers. The entry recommends the story and rates its prose more highly than either the premise or its construction.
The review explains the Proavitoi’s endlessly surviving, progressively shrinking ancestors and Ceran Swicegood’s attempt to reach the beginning of the family line. It admires the story’s irreverent, original approach to the mystery of life. A reservation concerns the lack of a definitive answer, which the reviewer believes may disappoint readers at the close.
The reviewer describes an alien patient troubled by a long-retracted pseudopod and the Dookh Doctor’s attempt to treat it. The response emphasizes the combination of amusement with a substantial reflective possibility emerging at the end.
The reviewer identifies Austro, Mary Mondo, Chris Benedetti, and their companions as the storytellers in an exchange of Halloween pranks, dismissing the piece as eccentric. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The reviewer explains that McSkee takes the maxim of living one day at a time literally. The result is judged to have little narrative construction, although the ending supplies a clarification.
The reader identifies an unusual miniature-world premise: a bullet contains inhabitants for whom its two-second journey lasts thousands of years. Their survival depends on preventing its impact. Idea and style receive three out of five; plot receives two.
The notice describes an insidious alien invasion and singles out the curious absence of concern among the men it affects. The entry gives two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
The essay reads the Camiroi visitors’ encounters as an exposure of modern researchers’ complacency about their political and educational institutions. The apparently primitive society remains peaceful despite flexible laws, little interest in power, and institutions that seem anarchic to outsiders. Its organizing principle is direct experience: people act instead of forming committees, and children learn through play throughout their environment. The apparent simplicity masks an ironic judgment on the Earth visitors’ confidence and bureaucratic habits.
The note connects this story with “Primary Education of the Camiroi,” following another human delegation’s failed attempt to understand alien institutions. It admires the depiction of a society with little bureaucracy or state apparatus, sustained by unusually high individual moral and professional standards. The response treats the alien polity as a utopian possibility.
Asciuti brings Lafferty, Skinner and Le Guin into a polemic against education subordinated to political and economic control. His reading of the Camiroi story emphasizes communal responsibility, slow reading, practical skills and grotesque punishments. He interprets Lafferty’s opposition to state control and planned instruction as a form of right-wing anarchism, finding shared commitments to active learning across the three writers’ different political positions.
The review reads the human delegation’s encounter with Camiroi schooling as a sharp satire of American education. It singles out the startling treatment of unsuccessful pupils and regards the story as an established classic. Its concluding question suggests that the satire could be renewed against present educational conditions.
The reviewer explains how a para-archaeological film reconstructs the Arab conquest of Damascus from traces retained by objects, but inherits a Byzantine viewpoint. The execution is judged unstable. The premise nevertheless attracts attention for its unusual approach to time travel and for choosing a historical setting rarely explored in science fiction.
The note recounts a boy’s construction of a device that makes objects and people disappear. The reviewer regards the story as eccentric and tentatively associates it with disturbing narratives about children without a moral sense.
The reader outlines a man’s discovery that he can experience time at a radically different speed, followed by his refusal of an occult order’s invitation to develop the power further. The story is judged successful overall. The reservation is specific: the conclusion seems to introduce an excessive degree of mysticism into the premise.
The reviewer finds the story incomprehensible and describes its characters only as something like parachutists. Idea and plot receive one out of five; style receives two.
The reviewer emphasizes the acceleration of human decisions, careers, marriages, and fortunes into compressed cycles. The story’s apparent madness is read as prescient, particularly in relation to the speed of contemporary social-media trends. The notice admires its conception and memorability, while explaining the three groups organized around different eight-hour working periods.
The reviewer follows six explorers on Bellota and their encounter with the planet’s solitary bear-like creature. Attention centers on the movement from apparent friendliness to a radically altered relationship and on the unresolved nature of Snuffles himself.
Barbieri recommends the 42-story collection while admitting that even an admirer can struggle to understand Lafferty. A sequence of quotations conveys its linguistic invention, improbable reasoning and resistance to simplified accounts of the world. He places most of the stories among the best science fiction and finds “Interurban Queen” the most unsettling: its account of cities makes ordinary urban life seem mad. He closes by urging readers to slow down.
The synopsis links itchy palms to accelerated evolution affecting humans and other species, then introduces the international health authority that obstructs the development. The entry gives two out of five each for idea, plot, and style.
The reviewer describes Cogsworth’s machine for experiencing the world through another being’s perception and his hope of using it to understand Valery. The experiments and their disappointing romantic outcome structure the synopsis.
This short excerpt treats Lafferty’s story as an example of altered perception: a machine lets its inventor experience the world through another human or animal’s eyes. The resulting discomfort forces him to modify the device. The commentary emphasizes differences between perceivers and the difficulty of accommodating unfamiliar experiences.
The notice concentrates on Doctor Drakos’s creation of living mouse-like creatures and the lack of enthusiasm shown by Mary Mondo, Austro, and their companions. Idea and style receive two out of five; plot receives one.
The note explains the erased memory of Chicago through the investigation of Smirnov’s computer Epiktistes. It responds positively to the story’s surreal comedy, especially the relationship between the scientist and his creation. The commentary concentrates on the recoverability of a suppressed city and gives evenly moderate scores to idea, plot, and style.
The excerpt examines technological manipulation of memory, contrasting induced hallucinations with the erasure of an actual event. After describing the suppression of all recollection of Chicago’s destruction, it asks what the story’s question about the recent past means. The proposed reading connects Lafferty to Bertrand Russell’s thought experiment about a newly created world supplied with fabricated memories and evidence of an earlier history.
The reviewer describes Barnaby Sheen’s cubic model for studying tectonics and Mary Mondo’s decision to populate it with fleas taken from Austro. The subsequent disturbances are treated as a reasonably successful humorous variation on the miniature-world motif.
Editors, translators, publishers, and contemporary notices describe how the books reached Italian readers. Publisher descriptions and translated endorsements are identified as such.
Curtoni lists Lafferty among his preferred science-fiction writers, placing him with Delany, Zelazny and Malzberg in the humanist fiction of the 1970s. The interview also discusses publishing budgets, competition between Galassia and Nord, and translation practice.
Curtoni recalls building Robot’s international network with help from translator Gian Paolo Cossato and American literary agents. His most specific Lafferty anecdote concerns a letter offering a piece for publication without requiring payment. This is firsthand evidence of the author’s contact with an Italian editor and of the goodwill surrounding Robot, although Curtoni does not identify the piece or reproduce the original English letter.
Maxpullo suspects wordplay loses force in translation and attributes abrupt transitions to style rather than cuts. Neither hypothesis rests on collation.
Iannuzzi’s doctoral history examines competing assessments of Fruttero and Lucentini’s direction of Urania. On page 115, she quotes Vittorio Curtoni naming Ballard and Lafferty as exceptions to an editorial preference for accessible entertainment. Her comparison with Giuseppe Lippi’s view places this disagreement within debates about popular publishing, literary quality and science-fiction readership.
These sources establish Italian editions, title variants, translators, and contents. Individual records also appear in the concordance.
The institutional catalogue confirms a physical 2019 Mondadori edition of Storie di altri universi, 585 pages, in Millemondi 85. It records Italian as the publication language, identifies the three English source collections, and associates Delio Zinoni and Hilia Brinis with the edition. Its descriptive note supplies Italian collection labels that have not been independently checked against the book interior.
The December 2019 issue record reproduces the cover description and a forty-two-story contents list with Italian and English titles. It confirms that the omnibus assembles selections from three earlier English collections and includes a Franco Forte introduction. The contents transcription is particularly useful for tracking Italian title variants, but some English spellings and original dates need correction against independent bibliographies.
The author index records Italian translations of seven novels and numerous short stories and essays. Its linked work and volume records identify alternate Italian titles, translators, publishers, magazine or series numbers, and publication years. It is the principal historical concordance used here, with edition pages consulted to avoid mistaking the most recent listed printing for the first Italian appearance. The catalogue states that its coverage ends in 2011.
The original catalogue supplies chronological Italian appearances beginning with Snoffols in March 1962. Its records separate original publication from Italian translation and include translator names, magazine and series numbers, dates and page locations. This first part provides an important check on the newer author index, especially where that index displays a later reprint or carries a malformed original date.
The continuation documents later Italian story and novel appearances, including the 1985 collections, the 1991 Sindbad translation, and subsequent anthology reprints. Detailed entries make it possible to distinguish new translations from reprints and to locate individual stories within volumes. It also provides the original English titles behind highly free Italian titles such as Pseudopodo dimenticato and Sei miliardi di imbecilli.
This English bibliography lists short fiction titles and publication years, with links to story pages and other resources. It provides an independent normalization check for English titles in Italian catalogues, including Mr. Hamadryad, Polity and Custom of the Camiroi, Fall of Pebble-Stones and One-Eyed Mocking-Bird. Because it does not document Italian editions, it is used only to check the English side of the concordance.
This detailed bibliography connects English originals to Italian publications, including all eight essay titles printed in Robot and Aliens. It supplies translator credits and pages for several essays and for the later Elara translation of Square and Above Board. Its collection entries identify the reduced contents of the Italian Golden Gate and Ringing Changes editions. Occasional title and date errors require comparison with catalogue records and English bibliographies.
The 2019 entry gives the contents and page numbers of Storie di altri universi, identifying its three internal collection headings and the translators Hilia Brinis and Delio Zinoni. It confirms that the omnibus preserves earlier Italian selections rather than translating all three English collections in full. The English titles contain several transcription errors, so this record is used for Italian headings and contents alongside independent title checks.
This reference inventory identifies Italian interviews, criticism, fanzine essays and special issues, often supplying original print dates and pages for texts now reproduced online. It also records the twenty-five-copy anthology distributed at Italcon in 2006 and the later reprint of Vittorio Catani's introduction. The Walker interview is connected to its English original and Italian translator. Several underlying print items remain unexamined.
The specialist alternate-history bibliography identifies the story Rainbird and lists English publication history followed by specific Italian translations. It records Paolo Busnelli in Strani fatti in 1978 and Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto as Uccello della pioggia in the 1993 and 1994 editions of Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1961. The record independently corroborates a useful example of one story carrying two Italian titles.
This index also points to discussions of several books that appear together under a single entry.
Annals of Klepsis: S012 · Re:il romanzo di Urania più brutto; S014 · Recensione di Franco Lato a L’equazione del giorno del giudizio; S015 · Recensione di Giorgio Sacconi a L’equazione del giorno del giudizio; S016 · Recensione di Marcello Bonati a L’equazione del giorno del giudizio; S017 · Raphael A. Lafferty; S018 · Fine del mondo? Sette storie matematiche.
The Devil Is Dead: S002 · I livelli della produzione del senso nel testo di Raphael A. Lafferty; S019 · Il diavolo è morto: in Nei labirinti della fantascienza; S020 · Il diavolo è morto (The Devil Is Dead, 1971) di R. A. Lafferty; S039 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o della fantasy moderna; S040 · Novecento nonnine.
Fourth Mansions: S002 · I livelli della produzione del senso nel testo di Raphael A. Lafferty; S033 · Quando Thomas More incontrò Ulisse: utopia e distopia nella narrativa di Lafferty; S039 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o della fantasy moderna.
Golden Gate and Other Stories: S042 · Alla scoperta di altri universi nelle storie di R.A. Lafferty; S043 · Fabbricante di bugie e di mondi stravaganti; S104 · Storie di altri universi: record MIL0992143; S105 · Storie di altri universi: indice; S111 · Raphael A. Lafferty, una bibliografia 8 (2018/2024).
Nine Hundred Grandmothers: S006 · Cantata spaziale - 7; Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti - 7,5; S040 · Novecento nonnine; S041 · Re:Raphael A. Lafferty; S042 · Alla scoperta di altri universi nelle storie di R.A. Lafferty; S043 · Fabbricante di bugie e di mondi stravaganti; S046 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o del nuovo misticismo; S104 · Storie di altri universi: record MIL0992143; S105 · Storie di altri universi: indice; S111 · Raphael A. Lafferty, una bibliografia 8 (2018/2024).
Past Master: S008 · L’estate di “David”; S021 · Maestro del passato: in Nei labirinti della fantascienza; S022 · Recensione di Antonio Scacco a Maestro del passato; S023 · Fantascienza umanistica: 6 domande ad Antonio Scacco; S024 · Follia come fosse un rubinetto; S025 · Maestro del passato di Raphael A. Lafferty; S026 · Maestro del passato; S027 · “Maestro del passato” di R. A. Lafferty; S028 · MAESTRO DEL PASSATO; S033 · Quando Thomas More incontrò Ulisse: utopia e distopia nella narrativa di Lafferty; S039 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o della fantasy moderna.
The Reefs of Earth: S002 · I livelli della produzione del senso nel testo di Raphael A. Lafferty; S029 · Re:Raphael A. Lafferty; S033 · Quando Thomas More incontrò Ulisse: utopia e distopia nella narrativa di Lafferty; S034 · Lafferty, chi era costui?; S039 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o della fantasy moderna.
Ringing Changes: S008 · L’estate di “David”; S012 · Re:il romanzo di Urania più brutto; S042 · Alla scoperta di altri universi nelle storie di R.A. Lafferty; S043 · Fabbricante di bugie e di mondi stravaganti; S104 · Storie di altri universi: record MIL0992143; S105 · Storie di altri universi: indice; S111 · Raphael A. Lafferty, una bibliografia 8 (2018/2024).
Sindbad: The 13th Voyage: S030 · Recensione di Mirko Tavosanis a Il 13° viaggio di Sindbad; S031 · Recensione di Marcello Bonati a Il 13° viaggio di Sindbad; S032 · Dai sette mari allo spazio profondo.
Space Chantey: S006 · Cantata spaziale - 7; Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti - 7,5; S032 · Dai sette mari allo spazio profondo; S033 · Quando Thomas More incontrò Ulisse: utopia e distopia nella narrativa di Lafferty; S034 · Lafferty, chi era costui?; S035 · Re:Raphael A. Lafferty; S036 · Bodé e la fantascienza (Re-edit); S037 · Roberta Rambelli e la sua fantascienza; S038 · Cantata spaziale: Una perla…; S039 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o della fantasy moderna; S102 · Re:Raphael A. Lafferty.
Storie di altri universi: S042 · Alla scoperta di altri universi nelle storie di R.A. Lafferty; S043 · Fabbricante di bugie e di mondi stravaganti; S044 · Antologia STORIE DI ALTRI UNIVERSI.
Strange Doings: S002 · I livelli della produzione del senso nel testo di Raphael A. Lafferty; S045 · Strani fatti: in Nei labirinti della fantascienza; S046 · La lunga notte di Lafferty: R.A. Lafferty, o del nuovo misticismo; S047 · Sette esperti di SF in cerca di un classico: Vittorio Catani su Strani fatti; S048 · Strani fatti, di Raphael A. Lafferty.
Shorter references, catalogues, mirrors, and unavailable pages follow. A bibliographical record establishes the existence of an item; descriptions of unread material are confined to the details that could be verified.
L001 Matematica in Letteratura 4. La biblioteca totale (e J. L. Borges). A discussion of Borges, combinatorial libraries, and the infinite-monkey idea mentions “Been a Long, Long Time” and its Italian publication as “Ci vuole molto, molto tempo.” The writer explicitly says the story has not been read. This is a reference to the story’s premise, without a critical assessment.
L002 Claudio Asciuti: L’istruzione nel terzo millennio, ovvero come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e a marinare la scuola. Claudio Asciuti; reposted by Alerino · 6 February 2016. Full repost combining Asciuti’s two-part Carmilla essay. The Camiroi discussion reads Lafferty’s educational satire as a form of conservative anarchism and compares its community-based learning with Skinner, Le Guin and Illich. Carmilla second part.
L003 Rare luci dell’Universo. Massimo Citi (maxciti) · 8 May 2013. Reviewing M. John Harrison’s Light, Citi compares its epic detachment with Lafferty, Cordwainer Smith and Frederik Pohl. In the comments, squirek also names Lafferty among strongly individual writers whose departures from standard genre formulas have become scarce.
L004 Recensione: “La montagna dell’infinito” (The Door of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories, 1971) di Roger Zelazny. Antonio Ippolito · 1 March 2017. Ippolito names Strange Doings among the important collections of the 1960s in a review chiefly concerned with Zelazny. He places it alongside Ballard’s collections and Dangerous Visions while giving Zelazny and Delany particular credit for renewing the genre.
L005 Presentazione. Asimov83. The site presentation identifies its proprietor as Asimov83. The individual review entries are unsigned, so their attribution remains qualified in this guide.
L006 James White e la fantascienza inglese. Riccardo Valla · 22 April 2005. An incidental evaluative mention places Lafferty among the writers whose abundance of ideas made the years around 1970 another science fiction golden age. The essay otherwise concerns James White and the neglect of earlier British writers.
L007 Da Milton ad Azathoth: Vittorio Curtoni come non l’avete mai visto. Valerio Evangelisti · 21 September 2011. A brief reception-history reference: Evangelisti names Lafferty among the writers whom Curtoni helped reevaluate through his editorial work. This is an introduction to Curtoni’s Bianco su nero e altre storie, not a reading of Lafferty’s fiction.
L008 Vittorio Curtoni. Uno strappo. Valerio Evangelisti · 5 October 2011. Reprints Evangelisti’s 1999 preface to Curtoni’s Retrofuturo after Curtoni’s death. Lafferty appears among the unfamiliar writers whose discovery through Robot exemplified the magazine’s role in educating Italian readers’ literary taste.
L009 Il canone di Bolaño. Spirito e corpo della fantascienza. Alessandro Fambrini · 18 September 2018. Fambrini quotes Lafferty’s name among the admired writers addressed by Bolaño’s fictional correspondent Jan Schrella. It documents Lafferty’s place in a transnational literary canon, but offers no separate assessment of his work.
L010 Fantascienza per ragazze/i?. Daniele Barbieri · 1 May 2012. Discussing science fiction for children, Barbieri praises “Primary Education of the Camiroi” in Storie di giovani alieni but doubts that ten-year-olds will understand it. Original HTTP address cited by mirror; Miglieruolo mirror.
L011 Fenomenologia della fine del mondo. Science fiction e fantasy dall’Ottocento a oggi. Riccardo Notte · 2012. The bibliography lists Annals of Klepsis and Vittorio Curtoni’s 1984 Italian translation. No separate discussion of the novel was located in the searchable transcription. Included as a bibliographical reference within a study of apocalyptic fiction.
L012 Hypnos. Rivista di letteratura weird e fantastica. Vol. 14. Edizioni Hypnos. The publisher’s product page confirms “Berryhill” in Hypnos 14, edited by Andrea Vaccaro, with ISBN 9791280110527 and 84 pages. It supplies the full contents and situates the issue among haunted houses and disturbing families, but offers only a brief promotional description of Lafferty. No sample, story translation credit or substantive analysis appears on the page. Publisher author listing.
L013 R.A. Lafferty, 1914-2002. S* (Silvio Sosio) · 22 March 2002. Short obituary sourced to the SFWA; records Italian Urania collections and Lafferty’s regular column in Aliens. Its compressed biography contains inaccuracies, so use as a reception document rather than a definitive chronology.
L014 Le pericolose visioni di Harlan Ellison (e di altri 31 scrittori). Carmine Treanni · 17 July 2008. Historical account of Dangerous Visions; Lafferty appears in the participant list and contents, without a separate critical reading of his story. Page 2; Page 3; Page 4; Page 5.
L015 L’utopia secondo Urania Collezione. Giampaolo Rai · 14 June 2012. Publication notice for Urania Collezione 113. Rai outlines Astrobe’s failed material utopia; the second half explicitly reproduces publisher copy and an author biography. Distinct from his subsequent review.
L016 Fantascienza vagabonda. Vittorio Catani · 7 October 2013. Catani names Fourth Mansions among science fiction’s earlier experiments in digressive narrative. His broader argument rejects any single privileged model of the novel and defends inner adventure as a source of literary interest. Opening page; Second page.
L017 Marte e l’antologia del secolo. Redazione · 26 January 2014. Brief editorial notice announces The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories as a return to print for Lafferty’s largely unavailable work. It also describes plans for a collection series. This records the notice’s claims, rather than independently verifying its publishing details.
L018 Bodé to body: il corpo a corpo tra SF e psichedelia. Fabio Lastrucci · 27 April 2014. Essay on Vaughn Bodé. One sentence praises the combination of his cover and internal illustrations with Space Chantey as an especially apt pairing.
L019 Due classici: R.A. Lafferty e Raymond F. Jones. Redazione · 25 January 2015. The notice announces an English volume of collected short fiction. It conflates the Centipede volume The Man Who Made Models with the earlier chapbook The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories, and incorrectly describes a guest introduction to every story. No Italian edition is announced. English bibliography; Centipede volume description; Contemporary English discussion.
L020 Fantasy & Science Fiction, in edicola il dodicesimo numero. Giampaolo Rai · 20 July 2015. Reviewing the issue, Rai singles out “Ben quadrato e senza scacco” for making a horror story amusing. The Lafferty comment is one sentence within a survey of the contents.
L021 I racconti di Octavia E Butler e R. A. Lafferty. Redazione · 27 February 2021. Two short paragraphs announce the English collection and its introductions by fellow writers. Most of the page concerns Octavia Butler; there is no detailed criticism of Lafferty.
L022 R. A. Lafferty. Catalogo della Narrativa Fantastica. Bibliographic list of Italian fiction editions, translated story titles, and Lafferty’s own nonfiction contributions to Robot and Aliens. It catalogs primary writings rather than criticism of him.
L023 Il ritorno di Fantasy & Science Fiction in edicola. Emanuele Manco; Elara press release · 29 June 2015. Manco reproduces Elara’s announcement of the twelfth issue, including its praise of “Ben quadrato e senza scacco” as irresistible and lighthearted. The assessment comes from publisher publicity.
L024 Hypnos 14 in arrivo. Emanuele Manco · 28 November 2022. The announcement lists “Berryhill” among the contents of Hypnos 14 and gives 15 December 2022 as the planned release date. It provides no assessment of the story.
L025 Segnalando / Uscite e novità 2013 in casa Urania. Elisa G. · 14 May 2013. Elisa G. expresses surprise that a Lafferty title stands tenth in Urania’s ebook sales ranking despite his many detractors. The prose does not identify the ranked book.
L026 Recensione Narrativa: La stirpe della tomba a cura di Gerald W. Page. Matteo Mancini · 9 March 2024. Mancini includes Lafferty among recurring contributors to The Year’s Best Horror Stories in the historical introduction to his review. This is a contextual name-check, with no individual Lafferty story reviewed.
L027 Fantasy & Science Fiction 12 (Giugno 2015) - Recensione -. Long John Silver · 17 April 2021. Reviewing the Italian Fantasy & Science Fiction issue, Long John Silver praises “Square and Above Board” as an amusing, well-written tale shaped by Irish folklore. Original English publication bibliography; Italian publisher issue page.
L028 Raphael A. Lafferty, una bibliografia 9 (altro). Intercom bibliography. Critical bibliography records Italian essays, translations, interviews, and the 2006 Catani–Lato tribute. Also lists extensive criticism in other languages, which is outside this Italian-language guide.
L029 Recensione di Marcello Bonati a Dangerous visions. Marcello Bonati. In the Lafferty paragraph of this anthology review, Bonati praises the convincing magical atmosphere and the comic invention of Los Angeles residents becoming the world’s new nomads. The story’s section was read; the full anthology review was not independently annotated.
L030 Viaggio immaginario. Italian Wikipedia contributors. The survey includes Space Chantey in a chronological selection of notable imaginary voyages, attributed to Brian Stableford’s account in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It supplies the Italian title and date, without a separate reading of the novel.
L031 E fanculo il cancro (Vittorio Curtoni, 2011). Domenico Gallo; reposted by Mauro Antonio Miglieruolo · 11 March 2012. This tribute to Vittorio Curtoni names Lafferty among the innovative overseas writers introduced through Galassia and later featured in Robot. Its account credits Curtoni and Gianni Montanari with bringing literary renewal into Italian science fiction. Original blog repost cited in mirror.
L032 Fantascienza per ragazze/i?. Daniele Barbieri; reposted by Mauro Antonio Miglieruolo · 11 February 2013. Reproduces Barbieri’s reading advice, including his praise for the Camiroi story and uncertainty about its accessibility to ten-year-olds. Original.
L033 Lezione introduttiva sulla fantascienza… (6). Luigi Petruzzelli; reposted by Mauro Antonio Miglieruolo · 29 December 2013. The concluding part of Petruzzelli’s introductory lecture includes Lafferty in a broad list of science-fiction authors. There is no individual critical discussion. Original blog installment cited by mirror.
L034 R. A. Lafferty. Catalogo della Narrativa Fantastica. Short alias displayed by the author’s Catalogo della Narrativa Fantastica record.
L035 Da zero alla Fanzine. Franco Giambalvo · 15 July 2014. Giambalvo’s account of Italian fanzine history reproduces a passage attributed to Remo Guerrini listing Lafferty among writers supporting continued American involvement in Vietnam in the 1968 Galaxy and If advertisements. Lafferty appears only in that political-context list. Additional historical lead mentioned in comments.
L036 In viaggio da James Ballard allo spazio interiore. Gennaro Fucile · 28 January 2020. Review of Simon Sellars’s Applied Ballardianism quotes Lafferty’s automated philosophical writing to question claims of novelty around theory-fiction. Most of the essay concerns Sellars and Ballard.
L037 Ombre rosse sul fantastico: quelle dei f.lli Strugackij. Luca Giudici · 7 February 2020. Within a review of the Strugatskys, Giudici compares their constructive skepticism about institutions and scientific dogma with Lafferty’s. The comparison occupies a short passage, rather than a dedicated review.
L038 Cronache del tempo veloce (II). Adolfo Fattori. Essay on electronic media and changing youth identities uses the Camiroi children’s construction of their own schools as its opening epigraph. Lafferty is a framing reference, rather than the object of sustained criticism.
L039 Il lato oscuro: storia di TDS (The Dark Side). Franco Ricciardiello · 6 July 2018. Historical account and complete issue indexes establish original publication details for the Maleti and Bonati essays and Bonati’s Annals of Klepsis review. Relevant historical narrative and index entries were read.
L040 Visioni Pericolose. Davide Mana · 23 February 2012. Mana names Lafferty among the contributors to Dangerous Visions in a strongly approving essay about the anthology’s formal freedom and challenge to convention. He does not discuss Lafferty’s contribution individually. Tag archive retaining full article.
L041 Orripilante oltre ogni immaginazione. Davide Mana · 9 December 2016. Review of Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman’s Ghastly Beyond Belief. Mana quotes Lafferty’s “True Believers” in English and uses its distinction between conscious and unconscious comedy to criticize humourless genre fandom. Lafferty is a touchstone here, not the main subject.
L042 Ritratto d’autore: Raphael A. Lafferty. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini and Giuseppe Caimmi · October 1978. Robot 31, pp. 199–207. The full text was not located; quoted in subsequent criticism. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L043 Indice di Fantasy & Science Fiction, ottobre 1982. Fantasy & Science Fiction · October 1982. Publisher index confirms the original English title and October 1982 publication.
L044 Presentazione a Maestro del passato. Riccardo Valla · 1972. Nord edition, pp. I–II; reprinted as Introduzione alla prima edizione italiana in Urania Collezione 113 (2012), beginning p. 262. Praised and quoted by later Italian critics. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L045 Presentazione a Il diavolo è morto. Gianni Montanari · 1974. Science Fiction Book Club 45, La Tribuna (1974), beginning p. 5. Passages discussed by Bonati and Migliaccio. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L046 Presentazione a Quarta fase. Renato Prinzhofer · 1974. Nord edition, pp. I–VII. Bonati quotes its account of Arthurian quest and masque. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L047 Presentazione a Cantata spaziale. Gianni Montanari · 1976. Galassia edition, p. 5. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L048 Presentazione a Le scogliere della Terra. Gianni Montanari · 1976. Galassia edition, p. 5. Quoted in Bonati’s defense of the novel. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L049 L’autore. Vittorio Curtoni · 1991. Urania 1166, p. 138. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L050 …così è stato raccontato. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini · October 1978. Introduction in Robot 31, Strani fatti, beginning p. 6. Its argument is quoted and challenged in Migliaccio’s essay. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L051 Recensione di Il diavolo è morto. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini · September 1974. Alternativa 1, September 1974. Intercom’s bibliography records this review as well as Nicolazzini’s review of Fourth Mansions in the same issue. Original text not read.
L052 Recensione di Quarta fase. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini · September 1974. Alternativa 1, September 1974. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L053 Intervista con R.A. Lafferty. Paul G. Walker; translated by Gianni Montanari · 1976. Italian translation in Galassia 216 and 217, June–July 1976, pp. 152–158 and 141–145; followed by a Montanari note and Italian bibliography. Original English interview first published in 1973. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L054 Recensione di Cantata spaziale. Domenico D’Amico · 1976. Ubik 0 (1976). Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L055 Letture: Cantata spaziale. Giuseppe Caimmi · 1977. Robot 13 (1977), p. 100. Intercom attributes it to Caimmi; Bonati’s later essay cites Lippi instead. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L056 Letture: Le scogliere della Terra. Giuseppe Lippi · 1977. Robot 21 (1977), cited by Bonati in La lunga notte di Lafferty; original page not verified. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L057 Articolo su R.A. Lafferty in Fate largo! 1. 1979. The bibliography identifies an article in Fate largo! 1, without author or title. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L058 R.A. Lafferty: presentazione in Racconti senza respiro, volume 2. Kirby McCauley · 1981. Racconti senza respiro, volume 2, Oscar 1365 (1981), p. 124. Italian translation of editorial material. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L059 Presentazione a Indietro non si torna. 1982. Asimov 5 (1982), p. 83; unsigned introductory material. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L060 Lafferty’s marvels. Silvio Migliaccio · June 1985. Intercom 75, June 1985. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L061 Nella cantina di Lafferty. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini · 1986. Cosmo informatore 3/1986, Nord. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L062 Recensione di Maestro del passato. Dario Sciunnach · 1986. Ucronia 2, Spring 1986, p. 107. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L063 La minaccia della scienza. Harold L. Berger; translated by Danilo Santoni · October 1987. Italian translation of the 1976 English essay, Speciale Lafferty, Intercom 94, October 1987. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L064 Per un invito alla lettura di Lafferty. Silvio Migliaccio · October 1987. Speciale Lafferty, Intercom 94, October 1987. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L065 R.A. Lafferty: la funzione dell’archetipo nella tradizione mistica occidentale. Dena C. Bain; translated by Danilo Santoni · October 1987. Italian translation of the 1982 Extrapolation essay, Speciale Lafferty, Intercom 94, October 1987. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L066 La scienza della fantascienza: discussioni di Lafferty. Renato Giovannoli · 1991. Bompiani’s 1991 edition contains discussions of Annals of Klepsis (pp. 290, 293, 298, 307, 327), “About a Secret Crocodile” (p. 302), “The Six Fingers of Time” (p. 227), “One-Eyed Mocking-Bird” (p. 157), and Lafferty’s essay “Something New Under the Black Suns” (pp. 189, 209). These references were located in Intercom’s bibliography; the book’s text was not read. Bibliography part 1; Bibliography part 5; Bibliography part 6.
L067 Raphael A. Lafferty: Un maestro dal passato / Un maestro dal passato. Vittorio Catani and Francesco Lato · 2006. Introduction to a six-story tribute printed in 25 numbered copies for Italcon 2006. Catani’s introductory essay was reprinted in Mi sono perso col cosmo tra le mani (DelosBooks, 2008), p. 236. Bibliographic record verified; full text not read.
L068 Bibliografia italiana di R.A. Lafferty. Andrea Vaccaro · 2012. Urania Collezione 113 (2012), beginning p. 265. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L069 Maestro del passato e del presente. Giuseppe Lippi · 2012. Urania Collezione 113 (2012), p. 261. Bibliographic record located; original text not read.
L070 Com’è triste (o allegro) il Marte-dì in certi universi. Daniele Barbieri · 23 September 2014. Barbieri reproduces Tiziano Sclavi’s list of fifty science-fiction classics from the July 1989 issue of Mille libri. Strange Doings appears in the list; Sclavi’s original commentary is omitted.
L071 Camparsi splendido e indigeribile macedonia Watson. Daniele Barbieri · 9 January 2018. In his enthusiastic review of Davide Camparsi’s Tra cielo e terra, Barbieri says one story recalls the difficult-to-classify Lafferty. He does not identify the story or develop the comparison.
L072 Urania: l’esordio di Francesca Cavallero. Daniele Barbieri · 19 November 2019. A notice at the end of this Cavallero review welcomes the expanded Storie di altri universi and affectionately calls Lafferty “His Brilliant Madness.”
L073 Il Come Eravamo del Come Saremo: Dischi Volanti 4. Mauro Antonio Miglieruolo · 22 September 2021. Miglieruolo adds a one-line recommendation of Fourth Mansions to installment 84 of his series on science-fiction imagery.
L074 Raphael Aloysius Lafferty: archivio del tag. La Bottega del Barbieri. The archive lists the dedicated Storie di altri universi review of 7 January 2020 and the Camparsi comparison of 9 January 2018. Storie di altri universi review.
L075 «Percorsi attraverso la fantascienza italiana». Daniele Barbieri. Discussing representations of Roma people, Barbieri recalls two Lafferty stories and a Spinrad novella that he and Riccardo Mancini had written about in L’Unità, probably in the early 1980s. He cannot find the article in his archive and gives no story titles.
L076 Roberta Rambelli e la sua fantascienza: percorsi autoriali e strategie narrative tra americanizzazione e costruzione identitaria. Raul Ciannella · Thesis title page dated 2021; repository record dated 2022. Doctoral thesis underlying the 2023 book. The contents identify an earlier version of the chapter on Rambelli’s mythological criticism. The Lafferty passage was examined in the revised book; the complete thesis was not read. UAB thesis PDF, unavailable during this search.
L077 L’uomo artificiale. Breve storia dei doppi umani tecnologizzati, dal mito al cyborg. Antonio Caronia. An indexed version contains the same discussion of Condillac’s statue and a reference to Dieci storie dell’altro mondo. The complete item was not examined; the argument is summarized from the later republications linked above.
L078 Come si chiamava quella città?. Italian reader-platform record found; no review text retrieved.
L079 Il 13° viaggio di Sindbad. Italian reader-platform record found; no review text retrieved.
L080 Il computer sotto il mondo. Indexed reader comment calls the Lafferty story acceptable within a mixed-author anthology. Full text, attribution, and date not retrieved.
L081 Quarta fase. Indexed review fragments mention enjoyable inventions and classify Lafferty primarily as a writer of the fantastic. The author, date, and complete review text could not be established; the page returned only an application shell.
L082 Storie di altri universi. Italian reader-platform record found; no review text retrieved.
L083 Mi sono perso col cosmo tra le mani. Vittorio Catani · 1 April 2008. The author’s book announcement supplies a contents list for Mi sono perso col cosmo tra le mani. It records the chapter “Un Maestro dal passato: R.A. Lafferty,” written with Francesco Lato. The chapter itself is not reproduced in the examined notice.
L084 Intervista con R. A. Lafferty: indice di Galassia 216. Paul G. Walker; catalogue record · June 1976. The contents record locates the first part of Walker’s interview after Cantata spaziale, beginning on page 152. The interview itself was not read. Its second installment is recorded separately in Galassia 217.
L085 Fantasy & Science Fiction 012. Elara. Publisher’s back-issue page lists the 160-page Italian issue and confirms that it includes Lafferty’s “Ben quadrato e senza scacco.” It provides a contents list and ordering information, without critical discussion, translator credit or a visible publication date. FantasyMagazine publication notice, 29 June 2015; Fantascienza notice and brief story assessment; Original F&SF issue index, October 1982; Canonical story bibliography; Intercom bibliography with translator and pagination.
L086 Quarta fase (Romanzi di Fantascienza group). 21 November 2025. Indexed November 21, 2025. Direct retrieval throttled. Opening expresses perplexity; full review not assessed.
L087 Un disintegratore per Dzhangar. Roberta Rambelli · 1977. The contents record identifies Rambelli’s essay in Nova SF 36, pages 135–147. Its discussion of Lafferty is described in Ciannella’s later study. The original essay has not been examined independently here.
L088 Quarta fase. Italian-edition page read, but the accessible displayed reviews were in English. Retained as a platform lead, not Italian critical reception.
L089 Fantascienza italiana. Riviste, autori, dibattiti dagli anni Cinquanta agli anni Settanta. Giulia Iannuzzi · 2014. Bibliographic record for the 2014 Mimesis monograph, 359 pages, ISBN 9788857521503, with a foreword by Carlo Pagetti. It adapts part of Iannuzzi’s doctoral research. The supplied online full-text copy returned a maintenance page, so its additional Lafferty references were not examined or annotated. Supplied full-text copy, inaccessible during checking; Institutional publication record; Vittorio Catani’s review identifying the relation to the thesis.
L090 Recensioni Hypnos. Rivista di letteratura weird e fantastica (2022). Vol. 14. The review page displays one four-out-of-five rating. No reader-review text appears in the retrieved page; its description of the contents, including “Berryhill,” is publisher copy.
L091 Bibliografia ISFDB di R. A. Lafferty. English bibliographical database linked from Italian reference pages. The author record returned an access error and was not used to verify individual Italian editions.
L092 «C’è qualcosa di difficile da immaginare?». Daniele Barbieri · 4 August 2015. An indexed review of the twelfth Italian Fantasy & Science Fiction issue calls Blish and Lafferty masters, but judges their contributions below their best. The Lafferty item is “Ben quadrato e senza scacco”. Original English publication bibliography; Italian publisher issue page.
L093 Lafferty, Raphael A.: autorità SBN. The Italian national catalogue’s author authority record. The accessible page did not expose a complete list of linked editions.
L094 Corriere di Un Sole Lontano 5: riferimento a La banda di Barnaby Sheen. Search located a discussion of La banda di Barnaby Sheen in this fanzine PDF. Retrieval failed; authorship, date, and argument were not verified.
L095 UraniaMania author ranking discussion. Indexed list includes Lafferty among a group scored seven; no full discussion assessed.
L096 UraniaMania discussion mentioning Lafferty, Goulart and Reynolds. Search excerpt uses Lafferty as a comparison for incomprehensibility. Not treated as a full review.
The 116 title forms below are attested in the translation and edition records consulted. Several works have more than one Italian title. Collections assembled for Italian readers may have no single English counterpart. Italian reference glosses for untranslated works are not treated as evidence of publication.
| Italian title | English original | Translation or edition |
|---|---|---|
| L'Equazione del Giorno del Giudizio | Annals of Klepsis | 1984 Urania 983, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Vittorio Curtoni Record · 1984 Urania 983, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Vittorio Curtoni |
| Quarta fase | Fourth Mansions | 1974 SF Narrativa d'Anticipazione 2, Editrice Nord; translated by Giampaolo Cossato [e Sandro Sandrelli] Record · 1974 SF Narrativa d'Anticipazione 2, Editrice Nord traduzione: Giampaolo Cossato [e Sandro Sandrelli] |
| Maestro del passato | Past Master | 1972 Cosmo. Collana di Fantascienza 18, Editrice Nord; translated by Giampaolo Cossato [e Sandro Sandrelli]; Reissued June 2012, Urania Collezione 113, Mondadori, same translators, 280 pages. Record · 1972 Cosmo. Collana di Fantascienza 18, Editrice Nord traduzione: Giampaolo Cossato [e Sandro Sandrelli]; June 2012, Urania Collezione 113 |
| Il 13° viaggio di Sindbad | Sindbad: The 13th Voyage | 1991 Urania 1166, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Marco Pinna Record · 1991 Urania 1166, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Marco Pinna · Additional record 1; Additional record 2 |
| Cantata spaziale | Space Chantey | 1976 Galassia 216, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Gianni Montanari Record · 1976 Galassia 216, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Gianni Montanari |
| Il diavolo è morto | The Devil Is Dead | 1974 Science Fiction Book Club 45, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Gianni Montanari Record · 1974 Science Fiction Book Club 45, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Gianni Montanari |
| Le scogliere della terra | The Reefs of Earth | 1976 Galassia 222, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Roberta Rambelli Record · 1976 Galassia 222, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Roberta Rambelli |
| Italian title | English original | Translation or edition |
|---|---|---|
| Dieci storie dell'altro mondo | Golden Gate and Other Stories | 28 April 1985, Urania 995, Mondadori; translated by Delio Zinoni. Ten-story selection from the sixteen-story English collection (1982), not a complete translation. Record |
| Golden Gate e altre storie | Golden Gate and Other Stories | Internal collection heading in Storie di altri universi, Millemondi 85, December 2019; translated by Delio Zinoni. Ten-story selection from the sixteen-story English collection. This title denotes an omnibus component, not a separately published Italian volume. Record · Additional record 1 |
| Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti | Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 7 September 1980, Urania 852, Mondadori; translated by Hilia Brinis. Eight-story selection from the 1970 English collection, not the complete collection. Record |
| Come si chiamava quella città? | Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 28 September 1980, Urania 855, Mondadori; translated by Hilia Brinis. Twelve-story companion selection from the 1970 English collection. Together with Urania 852, contains twenty of its twenty-one stories, omitting Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne, already translated elsewhere. Record |
| Novecento nonne | Nine Hundred Grandmothers | Internal collection heading in Storie di altri universi, Millemondi 85, December 2019; translated by Hilia Brinis. Twenty-story selection, omitting Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne. This title denotes an omnibus component, not a separately published Italian volume. Record · Additional record 1 |
| La banda di Barnaby Sheen | Ringing Changes | 27 October 1985, Urania 1008, Mondadori; translated by Delio Zinoni. Twelve-story selection from the twenty-story English collection (1984). First six stories grouped as La banda di Barnaby Sheen, then six Altri racconti. This is a collection, not a novel. Record |
| Mutevoli suonerie | Ringing Changes | Internal collection heading in Storie di altri universi, Millemondi 85, December 2019; translated by Delio Zinoni. Twelve-story selection, previously La banda di Barnaby Sheen. This title denotes an omnibus component, not a separately published Italian volume. Record · Additional record 1 |
| Strani fatti | Strange Doings | October 1978, Robot 31, Armenia; translated by Paolo Busnelli. Sixteen stories, corresponding to the 1972 English collection. Reprinted within Raccolta Robot 16, February 1980. Record |
| Raphael A. Lafferty: Un maestro dal passato | Italian selection or omnibus; see edition note | Italian anthology edited by Vittorio Catani and Francesco Lato, twenty-five numbered copies distributed at XXXII Italcon, 2006. Introduction and six stories; contents and translators not established. Bibliographic attestation in Intercom; volume not examined. No single English collection counterpart. Record |
| Storie di altri universi | Italian selection or omnibus; see edition note | December 2019, Urania Millemondi 85, Mondadori; translations by Hilia Brinis and Delio Zinoni; 585 pages. Italian omnibus of the selections from Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Golden Gate and Other Stories, and Ringing Changes, forty-two stories. No single English book counterpart. Introduction by Franco Forte. Record |
| Italian title | English original | Translation or edition |
|---|---|---|
| “Parole parole” | “A Special Condition in Summit City” | 1973: Buone notizie dal Vaticano Urania 623, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1973 in Buone notizie dal Vaticano Urania 623, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Su un coccodrillo segreto” | “About a Secret Crocodile” | 1980: Il meglio di Galaxy 1 Tascabili Mursia 28, Mursia; translated by Renato Prinzhofer Record · 1980 in Il meglio di Galaxy 1 Tascabili Mursia 28, Mursia traduzione: Renato Prinzhofer |
| “Niente parole” | “All But the Words” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “L'umanità intera” | “All the People” | 1962: Galaxy Anno V-N. 12, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by R[enata] Forti Record · 1962 in Galaxy Anno V-N. 12 Galaxy Anno V-N. 12, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: R[enata] Forti |
| “Quante persone conosci?” | “All the People” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Aloys” | “Aloys” | 1963: Galaxy 58 Anno VI-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by R[enata] Forti; 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1963 in Galaxy 58 Anno VI-N. 3 Galaxy 58 Anno VI-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: R[enata] Forti; 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Un pomeriggio su Eretz” | “Among the Hairy Earthmen” | 1980: Terre pericolose. La fantascienza catastrofica 1919/1979 Enciclopedia della Fantascienza 5, Fanucci Editore; translated by Roberta Rambelli Record · 1980 in Terre pericolose. La fantascienza catastrofica 1919/1979 Enciclopedia della Fantascienza 5, Fanucci Editore traduzione: Roberta Rambelli |
| “Il brontolio della vecchia stanza” | “And Read the Flesh Between the Lines” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Il brontolio nella vecchia stanza” | “And Read the Flesh Between the Lines” | 2019 omnibus contents transcription gives nella; the historical Vegetti record for the 1985 edition gives della. Translation by Delio Zinoni. Retained as an attested index/title variant. Record |
| “Sei piccoli alieni” | “And Some in Velvet Gowns” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Ci vuole molto, molto tempo” | “Been a Long, Long Time” | 1978: Imperi Galattici. L'epica fantascientifica 1923-1978 Enciclopedia della Fantascienza 3, Fanucci Editore; translated by Roberta Rambelli; 1987: Scienza Duemila a. IX n. 6 Scienza Duemila a. IX n. 6, Tattilo Editrice; translated by [Roberta Rambelli] Record · 1978 in Imperi Galattici. L'epica fantascientifica 1923-1978 Enciclopedia della Fantascienza 3, Fanucci Editore traduzione: Roberta Rambelli; 1987 in Scienza Duemila a. IX n. 6 Scienza Duemila a. IX n. 6, Tattilo Editrice traduzione: [Roberta Rambelli] |
| “Berryhill” | “Berryhill” | Hypnos 14, Edizioni Hypnos, issue announced for 15 December 2022; confirmed available by 20 January 2023. Italian publication of the 1976 story. Translator not established. Record · Additional record 1 |
| “La stagione della febbre creativa” | “Brain Fever Season” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “In riva al mare” | “By the Sea Shore” | 1980: Il meglio di Galaxy 2 Tascabili Mursia 34, Mursia; translated by Iole Luisa Rambelli; English title also indexed as By the Seashore. Record · 1980 in Il meglio di Galaxy 2 Tascabili Mursia 34, Mursia traduzione: Iole Luisa Rambelli |
| “Cammelli e dromedari, Clem” | “Camels and Dromedaries, Clem” | 1978: Il punto nero Urania 758, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Beata Della Frattina e Riccardo Calzeroni; 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1997: L'uomo duplicato Grandi Opere Nord 31, Editrice Nord; translated by Viviana Viviani ISBN: 8842909955 Record · 1978 in Il punto nero Urania 758, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Beata Della Frattina e Riccardo Calzeroni; 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1997 in L'uomo duplicato Grandi Opere Nord 31, Editrice Nord traduzione: Viviana Viviani ISBN: 8842909955 |
| “Scogliere che ridevano” | “Cliffs That Laughed” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “La statua di Condillac” | “Condillac's Statue, or Wrens in His Head” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Continua sulla prossima roccia” | “Continued on Next Rock” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Giorni d'erba, giorni di paglia” | “Days of Grass, Days of Straw” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Dorg” | “Dorg” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Sogno” | “Dream” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; Also published in English as Dreamworld (Galaxy, June 1962); the Italian Sogno version follows Strange Doings (1972). Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Sogno sul mondo” | “Dream” | 1963: Galaxy 65 Anno VI-N. 10, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Ugo Malaguti; Also published in English as Dreamworld (Galaxy, June 1962); the Italian Sogno version follows Strange Doings (1972). Record · 1963 in Galaxy 65 Anno VI-N. 10 Galaxy 65 Anno VI-N. 10, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Ugo Malaguti |
| “Crisolite intero e perfetto” | “Entire and Perfect Chrysolite” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Buono a nulla” | “Eurema's Dam” | 1977: Robot 18 Robot 18, Armenia Editore; translated by Abramo Luraschi; 1978: Raccolta Robot 7 Raccolta Robot 7, Armenia Editore; translated by Abramo Luraschi Record · 1977 in Robot 18 Robot 18, Armenia Editore traduzione: Abramo Luraschi; 1978 in Raccolta Robot 7 Raccolta Robot 7, Armenia Editore traduzione: Abramo Luraschi |
| “La madre di Eurema” | “Eurema's Dam” | 1978: I Premi Hugo 1955-1975 Grandi Opere Nord 4, Editrice Nord; translated by Roberta Rambelli; 1980: I premi Hugo 1955-1975 Grandi Scrittori di Fantascienza a. I, n. 6, Euroclub; translated by Roberta Rambelli; 1996: I premi Hugo 1972-1973 Classici Urania 226, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Roberta Rambelli Record · 1978 in I Premi Hugo 1955-1975 Grandi Opere Nord 4, Editrice Nord traduzione: Roberta Rambelli; 1980 in I premi Hugo 1955-1975 Grandi Scrittori di Fantascienza a. I, n. 6, Euroclub traduzione: Roberta Rambelli; 1996 in I premi Hugo 1972-1973 Classici Urania 226, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Roberta Rambelli |
| “Sei miliardi di imbecilli” | “Eurema's Dam” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Caduta di ghiaia” | “Fall of Pebble-Stones” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Duello sulla montagna” | “Frog on the Mountain” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Ginny” | “Ginny Wrapped in the Sun” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Golden Gate” | “Golden Gate” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Gli ospiti” | “Guesting Time” | 1989: Fantastiche vacanze. 33 "viaggi alieni" proposti dai migliori autori di SF (Fuori collana), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Enrica La Viola ISBN: 8804324538 Record · 1989 in Fantastiche vacanze. 33 "viaggi alieni" proposti dai migliori autori di SF (Fuori collana), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Enrica La Viola ISBN: 8804324538 |
| “La visita” | “Guesting Time” | 1965: I nemici di Gree e altri racconti Urania 396, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Enrica La Viola Record · 1965 in I nemici di Gree e altri racconti Urania 396, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Enrica La Viola |
| “Più siamo meglio stiamo” | “Guesting Time” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Macchina mangiatutto” | “Hog-Belly Honey” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Nel nostro isolato” | “In Our Block” | 1966: Il vento del sole Science Fiction Book Club 7 III serie (36), Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Roberta Rambelli; 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1966 in Il vento del sole Science Fiction Book Club 7 III serie (36), Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Roberta Rambelli; 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Rivestito di antica scorza” | “Incased in Ancient Rind” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; English variant: Encased in Ancient Rind. Incased is attested in the 1972 Strange Doings contents. Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Tutti in tram” | “Interurban Queen” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Terra dei Grandi Cavalli” | “Land of the Great Horses” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis; 1991: Dangerous Visions Varia Fantascienza, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis ISBN: 8804350830 Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis; 1991 in Dangerous Visions Varia Fantascienza, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis ISBN: 8804350830 |
| “Marsilia V.” | “Marsilia V” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “I prodigi di McGruder” | “McGruder's Marvels” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Il signor Amadriade” | “Mr. Hamadryad” | 1977: Stellar Fantapocket 14, Longanesi & C.; translated by Mariagrazia Bianchi Record · 1977 in Stellar Fantapocket 14, Longanesi & C. traduzione: Mariagrazia Bianchi |
| “Il nome del serpente” | “Name of the Snake” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “La valle stretta” | “Narrow Valley” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Valle stretta” | “Narrow Valley” | 1983: Il Giardino del tempo Il terzo libro della fantascienza (Fuori collana), Einaudi; translated by Sergio Solmi e Mimma Erba ISBN: 8806055976; 2001: Millemondi [Primavera 2001]: Nuove avventure nell'ignoto Millemondi 29, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by G[aetano] L[uigi] Staffilano Record · 1983 in Il Giardino del tempo Il terzo libro della fantascienza (Fuori collana), Einaudi traduzione: Sergio Solmi e Mimma Erba ISBN: 8806055976; 2001 in Millemondi [Primavera 2001]: Nuove avventure nell'ignoto Millemondi 29, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: G[aetano] L[uigi] Staffilano |
| “Novecento nonne” | “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Oh, dimmi, gelerà stanotte?” | “Oh Tell Me Will It Freeze Tonight” | 1981: Racconti senza respiro. Volume secondo Oscar 1365, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Giuseppe Lippi Record · 1981 in Racconti senza respiro. Volume secondo Oscar 1365, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Giuseppe Lippi |
| “Pseudopodo dimenticato” | “Old Foot Forgot” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Halloween d'una volta” | “Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes” | 2019 omnibus contents transcription; translated by Delio Zinoni. Historical Vegetti title form: Halloween di una volta. Earlier English original title form: Old Hallowe'en on the Guna Slopes. Record |
| “Halloween di una volta” | “Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni; Earlier English title form: Old Hallowe'en on the Guna Slopes. Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “C'era una volta su Aranea” | “Once on Aranea” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Uno alla volta” | “One at a Time” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Uccello-canzonatore con un occhio solo” | “One-Eyed Mocking-Bird” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Ragazze di primavera” | “Parthen” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Leggi e usanze dei Camiroi” | “Polity and Custom of the Camiroi” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti” | “Primary Education of the Camiroi” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis; 1991: Il quarto libro della fantascienza Supercoralli, Einaudi; translated by Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8806126261; 1992: Il quarto libro della fantascienza Einaudi Tascabili. Letteratura 115, Einaudi; translated by Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8806131613; 1999: Il compito di latino Nove racconti e una modesta proposta La Memoria 459, Sellerio Editore; translated by Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8838915296 Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis; 1991 in Il quarto libro della fantascienza Supercoralli, Einaudi traduzione: Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8806126261; 1992 in Il quarto libro della fantascienza Einaudi Tascabili. Letteratura 115, Einaudi traduzione: Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8806131613; 1999 in Il compito di latino Nove racconti e una modesta proposta La Memoria 459, Sellerio Editore traduzione: Hilja Brinis ISBN: 8838915296 |
| “L'istruzione elementare dei Camiroi” | “Primary Education of the Camiroi” | 1989: Storie di giovani alieni Superjunior 11, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Ilva Tron ISBN: 880432368X; 1997: Storie di giovani alieni I Miti Junior 42, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Ilva Tron ISBN: 880443306X; 1998: Storie di giovani alieni Junior Fantascienza 6, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Ilva Tron ISBN: 8804445610 Record · 1989 in Storie di giovani alieni Superjunior 11, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Ilva Tron ISBN: 880432368X; 1997 in Storie di giovani alieni I Miti Junior 42, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Ilva Tron ISBN: 880443306X; 1998 in Storie di giovani alieni Junior Fantascienza 6, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Ilva Tron ISBN: 8804445610 |
| “Pozzanghera sul pavimento” | “Puddle on the Floor” | 1978: Nuove costellazioni. 18 racconti Robot 32, Armenia Editore; translated by Giorgio Pagliaro; 1980: Raccolta Robot 18, Armenia Editore; translated by Giorgio Pagliaro Record · 1978 in Nuove costellazioni. 18 racconti Robot 32, Armenia Editore traduzione: Giorgio Pagliaro; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 18 Raccolta Robot 18, Armenia Editore traduzione: Giorgio Pagliaro |
| “Rainbird” | “Rainbird” | 1963: Galaxy 63 Anno VI-N. 8, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Ugo Malaguti; 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1963 in Galaxy 63 Anno VI-N. 8 Galaxy 63 Anno VI-N. 8, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Ugo Malaguti; 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Uccello della pioggia” | “Rainbird” | 1993: Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1961 Classici Urania 197, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto; 1994: Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1961 I Libri di Urania 14, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto ISBN: 8804376740 Record · 1993 in Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1961 Classici Urania 197, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto; 1994 in Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1961 I Libri di Urania 14, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto ISBN: 8804376740 |
| “Viaggiate in un barattolo” | “Ride a Tin Can” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “I fiumi di Damasco” | “Rivers of Damascus” | 1980: Il meglio di Galaxy 3 Tascabili Mursia 36, Mursia; translated by Giuseppe Lippi; 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1980 in Il meglio di Galaxy 3 Tascabili Mursia 36, Mursia traduzione: Giuseppe Lippi; 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Sette giorni di terrore” | “Seven-Day Terror” | 1994: Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1962 Classici Urania 210, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto; 1995: Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1962 I Libri di Urania 24, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto ISBN: 8804391936 Record · 1994 in Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1962 Classici Urania 210, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto; 1995 in Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1962 I Libri di Urania 24, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto ISBN: 8804391936 |
| “Terrore di sette giorni” | “Seven-Day Terror” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Cielo” | “Sky” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “La lenta notte di martedì” | “Slow Tuesday Night” | 1965: appendice a La macchina dei delitti Urania 393, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Enrica La Viola Record · 1965 in appendice a La macchina dei delitti Urania 393, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Enrica La Viola |
| “La lunga notte di martedì” | “Slow Tuesday Night” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Snoffols” | “Snuffles” | 1962: Galaxy Anno V-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by R[enata] Forti Record · 1962 in Galaxy Anno V-N. 3 Galaxy Anno V-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: R[enata] Forti |
| “Snuffles” | “Snuffles” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Sodoma e Gomorra, Texas” | “Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas” | 1964: Galaxy 70 Anno VII-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by F[erruccio] Alessandri; 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1964 in Galaxy 70 Anno VII-N. 3 Galaxy 70 Anno VII-N. 3, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: F[erruccio] Alessandri; 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Schegge” | “Splinters” | 1990: Ombre Oscar Horror 7, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Maria Benedetta De Castiglione ISBN: 8804327049 Record · 1990 in Ombre Oscar Horror 7, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Maria Benedetta De Castiglione ISBN: 8804327049 |
| “Ben quadrato e senza scacco” | “Square and Above Board” | Fantasy & Science Fiction 12, Elara, 2015, pp. 105–118; translated by Annarita Guarnieri. Available by 29 June 2015. Publisher confirms the Italian contents title; Intercom supplies translator and pages. English original appeared in F&SF, October 1982. Record · Additional record 1; Additional record 2 |
| “La dannata porta altamente scientifica” | “The Doggone Highly Scientific Door” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Help! Help!” | “The Hole on the Corner” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “L'uomo che non aveva mai vissuto” | “The Man Who Never Was” | 1972: Il computer sotto il mondo Science Fiction Book Club 44, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Maria Teresa Guasti Record · 1972 in Il computer sotto il mondo Science Fiction Book Club 44, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Maria Teresa Guasti |
| “L'uomo dagli occhi screziati” | “The Man with the Speckled Eyes” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Le sei dita del tempo” | “The Six Fingers of Time” | 1980: Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Associazione Genitori e Insegnanti Urania 852, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Tigri trascendenti” | “The Transcendent Tigers” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Il brutto mare” | “The Ugly Sea” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “I topi sacrileghi del dottor Drakos” | “The Ungodly Mice of Doctor Drakos” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Un mondo selvaggio” | “The Weirdest World” | 1963: Galaxy 57 Anno VI-N. 2, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by M[ichele] Silvestri Record · 1963 in Galaxy 57 Anno VI-N. 2 Galaxy 57 Anno VI-N. 2, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: M[ichele] Silvestri |
| “Un mondo in miniatura” | “The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen” | 1985: La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in La banda di Barnaby Sheen Urania 1008, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Troppo tardi” | “This Boding Itch” | 1985: Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Delio Zinoni Record · 1985 in Dieci storie dell'altro mondo Urania 995, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Delio Zinoni |
| “Questa grandiosa carcassa” | “This Grand Carcass” | 1970: Metamorfosi 1970 Science Fiction Book Club 38, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Maria Teresa Guasti, Tito Lana Popi e Sandro Sandrelli Record · 1970 in Metamorfosi 1970 Science Fiction Book Club 38, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Maria Teresa Guasti, Tito Lana Popi e Sandro Sandrelli |
| “Le tre ombre del lupo” | “Three Shadows of the Wolf” | 1975: Pistolero fuori tempo Urania 676, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Beata Della Frattina Record · 1975 in Pistolero fuori tempo Urania 676, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Beata Della Frattina |
| “Con occhio altrui” | “Through Other Eyes” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “La congiura contro Carlomagno” | “Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne” | 1972: Il computer sotto il mondo Science Fiction Book Club 44, Casa Editrice La Tribuna; translated by Maria Teresa Guasti Record · 1972 in Il computer sotto il mondo Science Fiction Book Club 44, Casa Editrice La Tribuna traduzione: Maria Teresa Guasti |
| “Come si chiamava quella città?” | “What's the Name of That Town?” | 1980: Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore; translated by Hilia Brinis; Catalogue supplies the question mark in square brackets. Record · 1980 in Come si chiamava quella città? Urania 855, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore traduzione: Hilia Brinis |
| “Mondo Abbondante” | “World Abounding” | 1978: Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli; 1980: Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore; translated by Paolo Busnelli Record · 1978 in Strani fatti Robot 31, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli; 1980 in Raccolta Robot 16 Raccolta Robot 16, Armenia Editore traduzione: Paolo Busnelli |
| “Indietro non si torna” | “You Can't Go Back” | 1982: Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza 5 Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza 5, SIAD Edizioni; translated by Vittorio Curtoni; 1982: Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza. Raccolta 2 Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza. Raccolta 2, SIAD Edizioni; translated by Vittorio Curtoni Record · 1982 in Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza 5 Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza 5, SIAD Edizioni traduzione: Vittorio Curtoni; 1982 in Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza. Raccolta 2 Asimov. Rivista di Fantascienza. Raccolta 2, SIAD Edizioni traduzione: Vittorio Curtoni |
| Italian title | English original | Translation or edition |
|---|---|---|
| “Libro su libro alla ricerca dell'oro” | “For a Little Bit of Gold” | June 1980, Aliens 8, Armenia, pp. 46–47. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Translator not established; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1980 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 8 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 8, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “In principio era l'oro” | “Great Awkward Gold” | January 1980, Aliens 3, Armenia, pp. 52–53. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Translator not established; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1980 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 3 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 3, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “Esistono altri mondi abitati?” | “More Worlds Than One?” | May 1980, Aliens 7, Armenia, pp. 8–9. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Translator not established; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1980 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 7 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 7, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “Più noiosi dei draghi” | “Riddle-Writers of the Isthmus” | March 1980, Aliens 5, Armenia, pp. 36–37. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Translator not established; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1980 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 5 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 5, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “Le firme celebri. Un cane a tre teste” | “Science-fiction Is a Three-headed Dog” | February 1978, Robot 23, Armenia, pp. 30–31; translated by Abramo Luraschi. Reprinted in Raccolta Robot 11, June 1979. Intercom gives the shorter Italian title Un cane a tre teste. Original-title identification and translator are bibliographic; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1978 in Robot 23 Robot 23, Armenia Editore; 1979 in Raccolta Robot 11 Raccolta Robot 11, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1; Additional record 2 |
| “Un cane a tre teste” | “Science-fiction Is a Three-headed Dog” | Short title used in the Intercom bibliography for Le firme celebri. Un cane a tre teste, Robot 23, February 1978, pp. 30–31; translated by Abramo Luraschi. Same essay and translation, not a separate work. Primary essay text not examined. Record |
| “Qualcosa di nuovo sotto i soli neri” | “Something New Under the Black Suns” | February 1980, Aliens 4, Armenia, pp. 70–71. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Translator not established; primary essay text not examined. Record · 1980 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 4 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 4, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “Le diecimila maschere e le lingue di altrove” | “The Ten Thousand Masks of the World” | December 1979, Aliens 2, Armenia, pp. 50–51; translated by Vittorio Curtoni. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Primary essay text not examined. Record · 1979 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 2 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 2, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| “I sintomi della malattia” | “The World's Narration” | November 1979, Aliens 1, Armenia, pp. 64–65; translated by Vittorio Curtoni. Later collected in English in It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1984). Primary essay text not examined. Record · 1979 in Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 1 Aliens. Rivista di Fantascienza 1, Armenia Editore · Additional record 1 |
| Italian title | English original | Translation or edition |
|---|---|---|
| “Intervista con R.A. Lafferty” | “An Interview with R. A. Lafferty” | Paul G. Walker interview with Lafferty, translated by Gianni Montanari in Galassia 216–217, La Tribuna, June–July 1976, pp. 152–158 and 141–145. English original in The Alien Critic, August 1973. Primary Italian interview text not examined. Record |
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Annotations summarize the sources in English. Original criticism, translated essays, publisher copy, reader responses, and bibliographical records are distinguished. Original Italian headings are retained; English work titles identify the originals rather than translating those headings literally. Mirrors and later republications are linked without counting their arguments as independent criticism.
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