Fourth Mansions

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

"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