{"id":25420,"date":"2025-09-17T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25420"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:07:44","slug":"library-addition-r-a-laffertys-the-man-who-lost-his-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25420","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: R. A. Lafferty&#8217;s The Man Who Lost His Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been two years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22158\">the last volume<\/a>, but the latest Centipede Press Lafferty volume finally showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Lafferty, R.A. <b>The Man Who Lost His Magic: The Collected Short Fiction Volume 8<\/b>. First edition hardback, #40 of 300 numbered copies signed by introduction author Gary K. Wolfe. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic-644x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"716\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic-644x1024.png 644w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic-189x300.png 189w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic-768x1221.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic-966x1536.png 966w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lafferty-8-Lost-His-Magic.png 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous volumes, this one came shipped in a plastic bag much larger than the book rather than being shrinkwrapped. It means that I need to carefully tape everything up before I can even get it on my shelf next to the other volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been two years since the last volume, but the latest Centipede Press Lafferty volume finally showed up. Lafferty, R.A. The Man Who Lost His Magic: The Collected Short Fiction Volume 8. First edition hardback, #40 of 300 numbered copies signed by introduction author Gary K. Wolfe. Unlike previous volumes, this one came shipped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":120,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[1973,1744,1983,84,1970,499],"class_list":["post-25420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-centipede-press","tag-fantasy","tag-r-a-lafferty","tag-science-fiction","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25939,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions\/25939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}