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9781883398606

The Essential Ellison A 50 Year Retrospective

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    9781883398606

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    1883398606

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-30
  • Publisher: Morpheus International
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Summary

Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. Essential Ellison includes contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx." Includes black-and-white photos.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sublime Rebel 1(4)
Terry Dowling
Lagniappe 5(4)
Beginnings
9(60)
The Sword of Parmagon [1949]
15(6)
The Gloconda [1949]
21(6)
The Wilder One [1955]
27(2)
The Saga of Machine Gun Joe [1955]
29(2)
Introduction to Glowworm [1976]
31(4)
Glowworm [1956]
35(12)
Life Hutch [1956]
47(12)
S.R.O. [1957]
59(10)
Worlds of Terror
69(66)
Lonelyache [1964]
73(16)
Punky and the Yale Men [1966]
89(24)
A Prayer for No One's Enemy [1966]
113(18)
Pulling Hard Time [1995]
131(4)
Worlds of Love
135(38)
In Lonely Lands [1959]
139(6)
The Time of the Eye [1959]
145(8)
Grail [1981]
153(20)
That New Old-Time Religion
173(42)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream [1967]
177(14)
Corpse [1972]
191(8)
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs [1973]
199(16)
A Stab of Merriment
215(42)
The Voice in the Garden [1967]
219(2)
Erotophobia [1971]
221(6)
Mom [1976]
227(12)
Ecowareness [1974]
239(2)
The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists [1981]
241(4)
Dept. of ``What Was the Question?'' Dept. [1974]
245(2)
Dept. of ``Trivial Pursuit'' Dept. [1972-1986]
247(4)
Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish [1982]
251(6)
Trouble with Women
257(44)
The Very Last Day of a Good Woman [1958]
261(8)
Valerie: A True Memoir [1972]
269(14)
The Other Eye of Polyphemus [1977]
283(8)
All the Birds Come Home to Roost [1979]
291(10)
To the Mattresses with Mean Demons
301(140)
The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos From Purgatory [1961]
307(40)
``Our Little Miss'' [1970]
347(8)
A Love Song for Jerry Falwell [1984]
355(6)
Telltale Tics and Tremors [1977]
361(10)
True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail [1978]
371(20)
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54'N, Longitude 77° 00' 13''W [1974]
391(28)
The Function of Dream Sleep [1988]
419(22)
Rococo Technology
441(84)
The Sky is Burning [1958]
447(8)
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World [1967]
455(18)
Along the Scenic Route [1969]
473(10)
The Song the Zombie Sang [1970] (with Robert Silverberg)
483(12)
Knox [1974]
495(14)
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole [1984]
509(16)
Heart's Blood
525(54)
From Alabamy, with Hate [1965]
531(12)
My Father [1972]
543(6)
My Mother [1976]
549(8)
Tired Old Man [1975]
557(10)
Gopher in the Gilly [1982]
567(6)
Strange Wine [1976]
573(6)
Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird
579(180)
The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie [1968]
585(70)
Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay [1972]
655(80)
The Man on the Mushroom [1974]
735(4)
Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto [1974]
739(16)
Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool [1978]
755(4)
Petards & Hangings
759(46)
Soldier [1957]
763(18)
The Night of Delicate Terrors [1961]
781(8)
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin [1968]
789(8)
At the Mouse Circus [1971]
797(8)
Shadows from the Past
805(54)
Free With This Box! [1958]
809(8)
Final Shtick [1960]
817(10)
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty [1970]
827(14)
Jeffty Is Five [1977]
841(18)
Contracts on the Soul
859(58)
Daniel White for the Greater Good [1961]
863(10)
Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine [1964]
873(34)
Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage [1977]
907(10)
The Classics
917(166)
``Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the Ticktockman [1965]
923(10)
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes [1967]
933(18)
A Boy and His Dog [1969]
951(34)
The Death bird [1973]
985(26)
Paladin of the Lost Hour [1985]
1011(20)
Soft Monkey [1987]
1031(12)
Mefisto in Onyx [1993]
1043(40)
Process
1083(62)
Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World [1992]
1089(10)
The Museum on Cyclops Avenue [1995]
1099(10)
Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear [1999]
1109(10)
Man on Spikes [1998][2000]
1119(8)
Introduction to ``Tired Old Man'' [1999]
1127(4)
The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore [1991]
1131(14)
Dark Liberation
1145(92)
The Thick Red Moment [1982]
1151(18)
The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge [1978]
1169(12)
Driving in the Spikes [1983]
1181(10)
An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55, [1982]
1191(4)
The Streets, Installment 1, [1990]
1195(4)
Xenogenesis [1990]
1199(38)
Afterword 1237
Harlan Ellison

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