Harlan Ellison - 6 Short Story Collections (ePUB+)

The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry, Ross Rocklynne, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrew J. Offutt, Gene Wolfe, Ray Nelson, Ray Bradbury,Chad Oliver, Edward Bryant, Kate Wilhelm, James B. Hemesath, Joanna Russ, Kurt Vonnegut, T. L. Sherred, K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg), H. H. Hollis, Bernard Wolfe, David Gerrold, Piers Anthony, Lee Hoffman, Gahan Wilson, Joan Bernott, Gregory Benford, Evelyn Lief, James Sallis, Josephine Saxton, Ken McCullough, David Kerr * Burt K. Filer, Richard Hill, Leonard Tushnet, Ben Bova, Dean R. Koontz, James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence, A. Parra (y Figueredo), Thomas M. Disch, Richard A. Lupoff, M. John Harrison, Robin Scott, Andrew Weiner, Terry Carr, James Tiptree, Jr.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION: An Assault of New Dreamers Harlan Ellison
KEYNOTE ENTRY: THE COUNTERPOINT OF VIEW John Heidenry
CHING WITCH! Ross Rocklynne
THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST Ursula K. Le Guin
FOR VALUE RECEIVED Andrew J. Offutt
MATHOMS FROM THE TIME CLOSET Gene Wolfe
TIME TRAVEL FOR PEDESTRIANS Ray Nelson
CHRIST, OLD STUDENT IN A NEW SCHOOL Ray Bradbury
KING OF THE HILL Chad Oliver
THE 10:00 REPORT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY ... Edward Bryant
THE FUNERAL Kate Wilhelm
HARRY THE HARE James B. Hemesath
WHEN IT CHANGED Joanna Russ
THE BIG SPACE FUCK Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
BOUNTY T. L. Sherred
STILL-LIFE K. M. O'Donnell
STONED COUNSEL H. H. Hollis
MONITORED DREAMS AND STRATEGIC CREMATIONS Bernard Wolfe
WITH A FINGER IN MY I David Gerrold
IN THE BARN Piers Anthony
SOUNDLESS EVENING Lee Hoffman
[spot] Gahan Wilson
THE TEST-TUBE CREATURE, AFTERWARD Joan Bernott
AND THE SEA LIKE MIRRORS Gregory Benford
BED SHEETS ARE WHITE Evelyn Lief
TISSUE James Sallis
ELOUISE AND THE DOCTORS OF THE PLANET PERGAMON Josephine Saxton
CHUCK BERRY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME Ken McCullough
EPIPHANY FOR ALIENS David Kerr
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Burt K. Filer
MOTH RACE Richard Hill
IN RE GLOVER Leonard Tushnet
ZERO GEE Ben Bova
A MOUSE IN THE WALLS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE Dean R. Koontz
GETTING ALONG James Blish (with Judith Ann Lawrence)
TOTENBÜCH A. Parra (y Figueredo)
THINGS LOST Thomas M. Disch
WITH THE BENTFIN BOOMER BOYS ON LITTLE OLD NEW ALABAMA Richard A. Lupoff
LAMIA MUTABLE M. John Harrison
LAST TRAIN TO KANKAKEE Robin Scott
EMPIRE OF THE SUN Andrew Weiner
OZYMANDIAS Terry Carr
THE MILK OF PARADISE James Tiptree, Jr.



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Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surpising with a contributor list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF: Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.



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Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection. Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction. His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience. -Gallery "Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing." -Richmond Times-Dispatch



Commuter's Problem (1957) story by Ellison
Do-It-Yourself (1961) story by Ellison & Joe L. Hensley
The Silver Corridor (1956) story by Ellison
All the Sounds of Fear (1962) story by Ellison
Gnomebody (1956) story by Ellison
The Sky Is Burning (1958) story by Ellison
Mealtime (1958) story by Ellison
The Very Last Day of a Good Woman (1958) story by Ellison
Battlefield (1958) story by Ellison
Deal from the Bottom (1960) story by Ellison
The Wind Beyond the Mountains (1957) story by Ellison
The Forces That Crush=Are You Listening? (1958) story by Ellison
Nothing for My Noon Meal (1958) story by Ellison
Hadj (1956) story by Ellison
Rain, Rain, Go Away (1956) story by Ellison
In Lonely Lands (1959) story by Ellison



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Love has ten thousand names and a million different faces.

History will surely agree that America's most destructive contribution to 20th century living has been that damaged product called plastic romance. It twists and savages us. After a lifetime of lies about what love is supposed to be, are you finally angry and depressed enough to be part of a 'recall' on that shabby, mildewed merchandise? If so, join the remarkable Harlan Ellison as he dissects the soul and body of love in Our Time. In 16 scalpel-sharp stories that range from the legalized whorehouses of Nevada to the steaming lynch towns of Georgia, from the abortion mills of Tijuana to the sound stages of Hollywood, the writer whom Oui magazine charmingly named 'the perpetually angry young punk of the bizarre' rips the Saran-Wrap off love and hate and sin and twittering passion-to disclose the raw meat beneath. Here are sixteen poisoned arrows from fantasy's most improbable Cupid in which he presents a world of hearts & flowers guaranteed to revise your thinking about where love is found and how it looks.



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, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison’s classic stories that will introduce new readers to a writer described by the New York Times as having “the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind.” Includes the award-winning stories “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” and “Deeper Than the Darkness.”