Project Gutenberg 2007-10-24 Public domain in the USA. 94 Lafferty, R. A. 1914 2002 Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius Ritter, Bob Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas Reading ease score: 86.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, V. L. Simpson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas" by R. A. Lafferty is a surreal and humorous novel written in the late 20th century. This work combines elements of fantastical storytelling and social commentary, exploring the quirks of human nature and the absurdities of bureaucratic systems. The narrative centers around the unlikely experiences of a census taker named Manuel, whose misinterpretation of his assignment leads to unexpected and chaotic consequences. The story unfolds as Manuel, a rather unconventional census taker with a penchant for humorous misunderstanding, takes on the task of counting not just the people but various creatures, including mythical "little people," in an area known as Sodom. His humorous misjudgment results in a comically exaggerated census filled with named creatures that do not adhere to conventional definitions. As the plot progresses, Manuel becomes embroiled in events that challenge perception and reality, leading to a crisis in a nearby town when the population surges on paper but is nonexistent in reality. The whimsical narrative culminates in disaster, humorously critiquing human misunderstanding, the nature of bureaucracy, and the interplay between fantasy and reality in everyday life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fantasy fiction Demographic surveys -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 41101 41105 2024-10-10T07:06:52.235412 2023-09-10T09:56:30.230583 text/html text/html 37309 2007-10-24T07:35:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 113454 2007-10-24T07:35:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 188748 2024-10-10T07:06:57.701371 application/epub+zip 187654 2024-10-10T07:06:55.262375 application/epub+zip 72506 2024-10-10T07:06:53.918397 application/epub+zip 275085 2024-10-10T07:06:59.498391 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 268044 2024-10-10T07:06:56.864392 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 136055 2022-09-11T04:10:46.996609 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34346 34249 2024-10-10T07:06:51.943393 2023-09-10T09:56:29.994606 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34286 2007-10-24T07:35:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13118 2007-10-24T07:35:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20333 2024-10-10T07:06:59.632349 application/rdf+xml 13389 2024-10-10T07:06:54.493380 image/jpeg 3790 2024-10-10T07:06:54.224376 image/jpeg 187002 2024-10-10T07:06:52.244410 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia