Land of the Great Horses

"Land of the Great Horses"
Short story by R. A. Lafferty
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)science fiction
Publication
Published inDangerous Visions
Publication typePrint
PublisherDoubleday
Media typeshort story
Publication dateOctober 1967
SeriesInstitute for Impure Science

"Land of the Great Horses" is a short story by R. A. Lafferty from Harlan Ellison's science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions. The story takes a broad view of the earth after extraterrestrials (the Outer Visitors) return the native land of the Romany (the Land of the Great Horses[1]), on which they had been experimenting. Roma everywhere leave their work to return to it.

They then scoop up the city of Los Angeles, whose residents become the new wanderers, Angelenos. When asked what happened, they commonly reply, "They came and took our Dizz away from us."

  1. ^ "R. A. Lafferty". urbangeek.net. Archived from the original on 10 July 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.