Awards and Recognition
Lafferty received Hugo nominations for Past Master, "Continued on the Next Rock," "Sky," and "Eurema's Dam," the last of which won the Best Short Story Hugo in 1973 (shared with Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's "The Meeting.")
He received Nebula Award nominations for "In Our Block," "Slow Tuesday Night," Past Master, Fourth Mansions, "Continued on Next Rock," "Entire And Perfect Chrysolite," and The Devil is Dead. He never received a Nebula award.
His collection Lafferty in Orbit was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and in 1990, Lafferty received a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection Iron Tears was also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2002, he received the Cordwainer Smith Foundation's Rediscovery award.
The Oklahoma Department of Libraries granted him the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
Fourth Mansions was also named by David Pringle as one of his selections for Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels.
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