1993 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee)
1992 Philip K Dick Award (nominee)
Praise for this book
"I love this book ... Lafferty is our unheralded American Garcia Marquez ... a word-slinger totally out of sync with today's slim-fast reductive rhertoric; a sly old buzzard who conjured up fables as luris as Bible stories and tells them in a tornado of words wild enough to drive wood splinters through a windshield." - Terry Bisson
Used availability for R A Lafferty's Iron Tears