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Nine Hundred Grandmothers

R. A. Lafferty

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walterbell
Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty. Timeless and immortal: http://www.conceptualfiction.com/nine_hundred_grandmothers.h... (http://www.conceptualfiction.com/nine_hundred_grandmothers.html) Anything on vision therapy/improvement, e.g. https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme... (https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improvement-by-hormetism/)
walterbell
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, by R.A. Lafferty (out of print except for "The Books of Sand") Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, free at http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028/last-and-first-men Accelerando, by Charles Stross, free at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html) The Doubter's Companion, by John Ralston Saul, http://www.amazon.com/The-Doubters-Companion-Dictionary-Aggr... (http://www.amazon.com/The-Doubters-Companion-Dictionary-Aggressive/dp/0743236602)
walterbell
R.A. Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers blends fantasy and science fiction, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/90... (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/900grannies.html) "I can point to two writers who stand outside, who aren't like anyone before them, and whom nobody has really tried to write like since: Cordwainer Smith and R.A. Lafferty. And of the two, Lafferty is the more sui generis ... Lafferty's approach to the universe was somewhat skewed and very much his own. He looked at things in a new, fresh way, and caused his readers to do the same (and often walk away scratching their heads)." Related writers: http://www.ralafferty.org/related/