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Fourth Mansions

(1969)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Seven very special people blending to create a higher form of humanity; A laughing man living alone on a mountaintop, guarding the world; The returnees, men who who live again and again, century after century. And a young man named Foley, very much like you or me, who begins to find out about these people, and how they are shaping the destiny of the world.

Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"In this book he surpasses himself. It is wild, subtle, demonic, angelic, hilarious, tragic, poetic, a thundering melodrama and a quest into the depths of the human spirit." - Poul Anderson

"Lafferty has the power which sets fire behind your eyeballs." - Roger Zelazny


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