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1) Spider Kiss
"A dynamite piece of storytelling"—the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author turns to musical fiction in a novel of a rock star's tumultuous career (AllReaders.com).
If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll
Tales of terror and wonder from a winner of the Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, Bram Stoker, and many other awards.
Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide‑ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and
The award-winning original teleplay that produced the most beloved episode of the classic Star Trek series—with an introductory essay by the author.
USS Enterprise Starfleet officers Capt. James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock escort a renegade criminal to a nearby planet for capital punishment, and they discover the remains of a city. This ancient civilization is inhabited by the alien Guardians of Forever, who are
5) Shatterday
"One of the great . . . American short-story writers" exposes the darkness of the human heart in these speculative tales of terror and tragedy (George R. R. Martin).
A five-year-old boy never ages, living as an immortal in a past that no longer exists while the world encroaches upon his innocence, in the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning "Jeffty Is Five."
An alien attack leaves Earth on the brink of Armageddon, as humans
Twenty-one works from "one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth," including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx (Publishers Weekly).
Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award–nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece,
Tales of love, sex, and relationships as only "one of the great . . . American short story writers" can tell them (The Washington Post Book World).
A one-night stand begins a tragic journey that consumes a man's soul in "Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine."
Afraid to interact with men who would condemn her as ugly, a young woman imagines herself living the love lives of every woman she sees until one daydream becomes
Herein lies in written form Harlan Ellison's Movie, the full-length feature film Ellison created when a producer at 20th Century-Fox said, "If we gave you the money, and no interference, what sort of movie would you write?" Well, that producer is no longer at the studio; he left the entire venue of moviemaking after Harlan Ellison's Movie was seen by the Suits. There is no use even trying to describe what the film is about, except
...From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama.
Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid‑fifties, Harlan Ellison—kicked out of college and hungry to write—went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from
"Ellison's stories punch where it hurts . . .and span from baroque far future speculations to near future warnings" (Science Fiction Ruminations).
Over the course of his legendary career, Harlan Ellison has defied—and sometimes defined—modern fantasy literature, all while refusing to allow any genre to claim him. A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from
"An enjoyable, irascible collection" of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal).
Everyone's a critic, especially in the digital age—but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A science fiction classic about an antiestablishment rebel set on overthrowing the totalitarian society of the future.
One of science fiction's most antiestablishment authors rails against the accepted order while questioning blind obedience to the state in this unique pairing of short story and essay.
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is set in a dystopian future
Eight timeless tales from the master of speculative fiction, featuring the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."
Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor—you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight
14) Troublemakers
A special new collection of Ellison's short stories, selected especially for this volume by the author, including the newly revised and expanded tale "Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts." In a career spanning more than fifty years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited seventy-five books, more than seventeen hundred stories, essays,
...Terrifying tales of teenage gangs and life on the mean streets from the multiple award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog.
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author
...16) Over the Edge
An essential collection of short stories and essays from the multi-award-winning author of Deathbird Stories.
"Arguably the best and most prolific author of novellas and novelettes that Anglophone letters has produced." —Norman Spinrad, author of Bug Jack Barron, from his Foreword
Despite the awards and accolades that categorize Harlan Ellison as a science fiction writer, his canon of work spans
Harlan Ellison—master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent—has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds...
18) Gentleman Junkie
A remarkably trenchant collection of early stories by "the dark prince of American letters" exploring the injustice and desperation of a forgotten America (Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life).
Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison's early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories
Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—"fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling" (The New York Times).
As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, "The Deathbird."
In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers
An irreverent, brilliant, and outspoken collection of essays by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Harlan Ellison agreed to write a regular column for the L.A. Weekly on the condition that they published whatever he wrote with no revisions and no suggestions for rewrites. What resulted was impassioned, persuasive, abusive, and hilarious. Part essay, part conversation,