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. The Essential Ellison, a special limited edition personally signed and numbered by Ellison, contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx."
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
Contents:
· Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · ss Bad Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper&Row, 1973 · Along the Scenic Route [“Dogfight on 101”] · ss Adam Aug’69; Amazing Sep’69 · On the Downhill Side · ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972 · O Ye of Little Faith · ss Knight Sep’68 · Neon · ss The Haunt of Horror Aug’73 · Basilisk · ss F&SF Aug’72 · Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes · nv Knight May’67 · Corpse · ss F&SF Jan’72 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · ss Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1968 · Delusion for a Dragon Slayer · ss Knight Sep’66 · The Face of Helene Bournouw · ss Collage Oct’60 · Bleeding Stones · ss Vertex Apr’73 · At the Mouse Circus · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 · The Place with No Name · ss F&SF Jul’69 · Paingod · ss Fantastic Jun’64 · Ernest and the Machine God · nv Knight Jan’68 · Rock God · ss Coven 13 Nov’69 · Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38°54’N, Longitude 77°00’13"W · nv F&SF Oct’74 · The Deathbird · nv F&SF Mar’73
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny and Samuel Delany.
Contents xi • Foreword: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition) • (2002) • essay by Michael Moorcock xiii • Introduction: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition • (2002) • essay by Harlan Ellison xxiii • Foreword 1-The Second Revolution • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov xxxiii • Introduction: Thirty-Two Soothsayers • (1967) • essay by Harlan Ellison (variant of Thirty-Two Soothsayers) xxxix • Foreword 2-Harlan and I • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov 1 • Evensong • (1967) • shortstory by Lester del Rey 9 • Flies • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 21 • The Day After the Day the Martians Came • (1967) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl (variant of The Day the Martians Came) 30 • Riders of the Purple Wage • (1967) • novella by Philip José Farmer 105 • The Malley System • (1967) • shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord 115 • A Toy for Juliette • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Bloch 128 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison 154 • The Night That All Time Broke Out • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 169 • The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice • (1967) • shortstory by Howard Rodman 181 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick 216 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Niven 231 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber 256 • Lord Randy, My Son • (1967) • shortstory by Joe L. Hensley 272 • Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson 295 • Incident in Moderan • [Moderan] • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 299 • The Escaping • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 305 • The Doll-House • (1967) • shortstory by James Cross 326 • Sex and/or Mr. Morrison • (1967) • shortstory by Carol Emshwiller 338 • Shall the Dust Praise Thee? • (1967) • shortstory by Damon Knight 344 • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? • (1967) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon 390 • What Happened to Auguste Clarot? • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Eisenberg 396 • Ersatz • (1967) • shortstory by Henry Slesar 404 • Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird • (1967) • shortstory by Sonya Dorman 412 • The Happy Breed • (1967) • shortstory by John Sladek [as by John T. Sladek ] 433 • Encounter with a Hick • (1967) • shortstory by Jonathan Brand 439 • From the Government Printing Office • (1967) • shortstory by Kris Neville 447 • Land of the Great Horses • (1967) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty 458 • The Recognition • (1967) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard 472 • Judas • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner 483 • Test to Destruction • (1967) • novelette by Keith Laumer 510 • Carcinoma Angels • (1967) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad 523 • Auto-da-Fé • (1967) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny 532 • Aye, and Gomorrah . . . • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade, and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.
Now, The John Varley Reader gathers his best stories, many out of print for years. This is the volume no Varley fan - or science fiction reader - can do without. 1 • Picnic on Nearside • [Eight Worlds] • (1974) • novelette by John Varley 24 • Overdrawn at the Memory Bank • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley 53 • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • (1976) • novella by John Varley 91 • Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley 119 • The Barbie Murders • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (1978) • novelette by John Varley 146 • The Phantom of Kansas • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley 180 • Beatnik Bayou • [Eight Worlds] • (1980) • novelette by John Varley 212 • Air Raid • (1977) • shortstory by John Varley 228 • The Persistence of Vision • (1978) • novella by John Varley 271 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley 327 • The Pusher • (1981) • shortstory by John Varley 343 • Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo • [Eight Worlds] • (1986) • novella by John Varley 409 • Options • [Eight Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by John Varley 437 • Just Another Perfect Day • (1989) • shortstory by John Varley 449 • In Fading Suns and Dying Moons • (2003) • novelette by John Varley 467 • The Flying Dutchman • (1998) • shortstory by John Varley 486 • Good Intentions • (1992) • shortstory by John Varley 502 • The Bellman • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (2003) • novelette by John Varley
1- It is the companion volume to the most influential book of speculative fiction in the past twenty-five years, the award-winning "Dangerous Visions". Of course, you've heard of "Dangerous Visions". 2- It contains original stories, written especially for this anthology, by forty-two very special writers, none of whom were in "Dangerous Visions". Of course, you remember the writers who won all those awards for "Dangerous Visions". 3- It contains forty-six stories ranging in length from shorties of 1,000 words to short novels of 40,000 words; each story was written without thought to taboos or publishing restrictions that usually hamper sci-fi writers. Of course, you remember what a mind-blower, in this respect, was "Dangerous Visions". 4- Each story has its own Afterword by the author, as well as its own individual Introduction by the editor. Of course, you remember the wealth of addenda that made such a milestone of "Dangerous Visions". 5, 6, & 7- It took over three years to compile this book. It has been edited by Harlan Ellison who put together "Dangerous Visions", which you will surely recall. And... this is a more startling book than "Dangerous Visions". This book takes off where "Dangerous Visions" stopped and it is a BETTER book than "Dangerous Visions".
Harlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful. The 21 stories in this 1997 collection, which is encased in black boxes, show Ellison at the height of his powers, with several of the stories (no surprise here) major award-winners. Highlights include a black mind reader who pays a visit to a white serial killer, a husband who falls prey to a vampiric personal computer, and a love affair between a young man and a woman who may be more undead than alive. Perhaps even more fascinating are the painfully candid snapshots of autobiography running throughout the volume. Even if Ellison's unsettling fictions are not enough to dazzle you, his often bizarre life experiences as an author will still keep you compulsively turning the page like a polite voyeur. --Stanley Wiater
Contents: The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (1992) Anywhere but Here, with Anybody but You (1996) Crazy as a Soup Sandwich (1989) Darkness upon the Face of the Deep (1991) The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 1 (1997) The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 2 (1994) The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke (1996) The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (1995) Go toward the Light (1996) Mefisto in Onyx (1993) Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (1992) Chatting with Anubis (1995) The Few, the Proud (1989) The Deadly "Nackles" Affair (1987) essay Nackles (1964) Nackles (1987) Sensible City (1994) The Dragon on the Bookshelf (1995) with Robert Silverberg Keyboard (1995) Jane Doe #112 (1990) The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams (1997) Pulling Hard Time (1995) Scartaris, June 28th (1990) She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother (1988) Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral (1995)
Alternate cover edition of ISBN-13: 978-0140286809, ISBN-10/ASIN: 0140286802
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books.
Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius.
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.
These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.
Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
Contents: - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1998) - Water Off a Black Dog's Back (1995) - The Specialist's Hat (1998) - Flying Lessons (1995) - Travels with the Snow Queen (1996/1997) - Vanishing Act (1996) - Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party (1998) - Shoe and Marriage (2000) - Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water (2001) - Louise's Ghost (2001) - The Girl Detective (1999)
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