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Harlan Ellison Bibliography
This is a list of works by Harlan Ellison (1934–2018). It includes his literary output, screenplays and teleplays, voiceover work, and other fields of endeavor. Novels and novellas * '' Web of the City'' (1958; originally published as ''Rumble'') * ''The Man with Nine Lives'' (1960; revised and reprinted in 2011 under the author's preferred title ''The Sound of a Scythe'') * '' Spider Kiss'' (1961; originally published as ''Rockabilly'') * ''Doomsman'' (1967; re-issued under the author's preferred title ''Way of an Assassin'' in the collection ''Rough Beasts'') * '' A Boy and His Dog'' (1969; made into a film) * ''The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes'' (1975; adaptation by Edward Bryant of Ellison's TV pilot script) * ''All the Lies That Are My Life'' (1980; later included in the author's 1980 collection ''Shatterday'') * ''Run for the Stars'' (1991; a 1957 novella here republished in a preferred text edition as part of a Tor Double) * ''Mefisto in Onyx'' (1993; later incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic-book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Some of his best-known works include the 1967 ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", considered by some to be the single greatest episode of the ''Star Trek'' franchise (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes his original teleplay), his ''A Boy and His Dog'' cycle (which was made into A Boy and His Dog (1975 film), a film), and his short stories "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (later adapted by Ellison into I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game), a video game) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
''Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled'' is a collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was originally published in hardback in 1968. Ace Books issued an edition in 1983. This edition modified the table of contents by shuffling the order of the material, and replacing nine stories from the 1968 edition with three additional ones. Ellison removed those nine stories from the reissue because they were available in other collections and he had grown sensitive to such overlap. The book was reissued again in 1997 by White Wolf Publishing White Wolf Entertainment AB, formerly White Wolf Publishing, was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant (game publisher), Lion Rampant [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A 10-Year Survey
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can & Can'tankerous
''Can & Can'tankerous'' is a 2015 collection of previously uncollected short stories written by Harlan Ellison. The collection includes the story "How Interesting: A Tiny Man", which won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story alongside "Ponies" by Kij Johnson. The collection was edited by Jason Davis and includes an introduction to the story "Loose Cannon" written by Neil Gaiman. Contents *" How Interesting: A Tiny Man" ::Originally published in ''Realms of Fantasy'', February 2010 issue. Also reprinted in 2010 in ''Unrepentant: A Celebration of the Writings of Harlan Ellison'', edited by Robert T. Garcia. *"Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts" ::First published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', January 2002 issue. A heavily revised, expanded and retitled version of an Ellison story originally published in 1956. It was also included in the 2001 reprint collection ''Troublemakers''. *"Objects of Desire in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear" ::''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka (born Jacek Kowalski in 1952) is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń. Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States. His work has been displayed in Polish art museums. Early life Jacek Yerka was born in Toruń, Poland in 1952. He was born into an artistic family with both his parents graduates from a local fine art academy. His earliest memories were of paints, inks, paper, erasers and brushes. As a child, Yerka loved to draw and make sculptures. He hated playing outside, and preferred to sit down with a pencil, creating and exploring his own world. This difference between the other children in his primary school led to social problems with his peers and Yerka describes his primary school life as being a "grey, sometimes horrifying reality". However, Yerka later became 'untouchable' in his high school due to his clever sketches of the school's worst bullies. Life in the Academy Yerka had never intended to be an artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind Fields
''Mind Fields'' is a book featuring paintings by Polish painter Jacek Yerka combined with short stories and prose poems by American writer Harlan Ellison. The 34 paintings by Yerka were created first. Ellison then wrote a short story based on a single painting. The exception was "Under the Landscape" which was based on two separate paintings. Contents #The Creation of Water #Twilight in the Cupboard #Amok Harvest #Theory of Tension #Back to Nature #Internal Inspection #Metropolis II #In the Oligocenskie Gardens #Europe #Fever #Attack at Dawn #Susan #Between Heaven and Hell #Shed of Rebellion #To Each His Own #Eruption #The Inquisition #Beneath the Dunes #The Silence #Darkness Falls on the River #Paradise #Express Delivery #The Agitators #Truancy at the Pond #Ammonite #Base #Foraging in the Field #Traffic Prohibited #Afternoon with the Bros. Grimm #The Cosmic Barnyard #Under the Landscape (two paintings) #Ellison Wonderland #Please Don't Slam the Door Paintings The paintings in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Candy
''Angry Candy'' is a 1988 collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison, loosely organized around the theme of death. The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E. Cummings, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy." The collection contains the short story "Eidolons", which won the 1989 ''Locus'' poll award for best short story. It also contains the novelette "Paladin of the Lost Hour", winner of a Hugo Award for best novelette and later converted by Ellison into an episode of the television series ''The Twilight Zone'' (1985), as well as the short story "Soft Monkey", which won Ellison his second Edgar Award, in 1988. ''Angry Candy'' was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and won a World Fantasy award for best collection of short stories and the Locus Award for Best Collection in 1989. Contents *Introduction: "The Wind Took Your Answer Away" *"Paladin of the Lost Hour" *"Footsteps" *"Esca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies. In 2013, Tachyon's publication ''After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall'' by Nancy Kress won the Nebula Award and Locus Award for best novella. Also in 2013, Tachyon's publication of ''The Emperor's Soul'' by Brandon Sanderson won the Hugo Award for best novella. From 1992 to 1994, Weisman also published ''Thirteenth Moon'' magazine, which featured short stories, poetry and essays by authors including Vicki Aron, Michael Astrov, M. J. Atkins, Simon Baker, Michael Bishop, Fred Branfman, Lela E. Buis, Paul Di Filippo, Linda Dunn, Alma Garcia, Lisa Goldstein, Brice Gorman, John Grey, Eva Hauser, Deborah Hunt, Knute Johnson, Lewis Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Soon Lee, Pamela Lovell, David Nemec, Lyn Nichols, Robert Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatterday (short Story Collection)
''Shatterday'' is a collection of short stories by American author Harlan Ellison. In the introduction, Ellison states that the stories reflect an underlying theme of fear of human frailty and ugliness. His goal, he writes, is to shock his readers into seeing that this fear unifies all people. Each story has an introduction, ranging from a single sentence to several pages long. Among the stories in the collection, " Jeffty Is Five" won both a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award. It was also voted in a 1999 online poll of '' Locus'' readers to be the best short story of all time. "All the Lies that Are My Life" had been previously published the same year as a novella. The title story was made into the first episode of the 1985 revival of ''The Twilight Zone ''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television series created by Rod Serling in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Wine
''Strange Wine'' is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison. Contents The book contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale): *"Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself" *" Croatoan" *"Working With the Little People" *"Killing Bernstein" *"Mom" *"In Fear of K" *"Hitler Painted Roses" *"The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat" *" From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" *"Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time" *"Emissary from Hamelin" *"The New York Review of Bird" *"Seeing" *"The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" *"Strange Wine" *"The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel" Reception Ellison wrote "Strange Wine" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit. Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Doors, No Windows
''No Doors, No Windows'' is a 1975 short story collection by American author Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published wo .... It contains mostly suspense and crime tales along with a lengthy introduction by Ellison. Contents *Introduction: "Blood/Thoughts" *"The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" *"Eddie, You're My Friend" *"Status Quo at Troyden's" *"Nedra at f:5.6" *"Opposites Attract" *"Toe the Line" *"Down in the Dark" *"Pride in the Profession" *"The Children's Hour" *"White Trash Don't Exist" *"Thicker Than Blood" *"Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column" *"Promises of Laughter" *"Ormond Always Pays His Bills" *"The Man on the Juice Wagon" *"Tired Old Man" References Short story collections by Harlan Ellison 1975 short story collections Pyramid Books books {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
