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  <title><![CDATA[The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective]]></title>
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  <default_description>Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original &lt;i&gt;Outer Limits,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Hunger, Logan's Run,&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Babylon Five.&lt;/i&gt; But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. &lt;i&gt;The Essential Ellison,&lt;/i&gt; a special limited edition personally signed and numbered by Ellison, contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as &quot;A Boy and His Dog,&quot; &quot;Xenogenesis,&quot; and &quot;Mefisto in Onyx.&quot;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who loves surreal imaginative fiction]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 12 08:10:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 19 13:44:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a bit biased as Ellison is one of my favorite fiction authors.  There just aren't that many writers with the sheer breadth and stupefying imagination that Ellison possesses.  This massive collection of his short works is nearly beyond description.  It contains such a staggering number of profou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35104754">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 14 13:02:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 14 13:08:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harlan Ellison is like an unknown precious treasure that you find in your grandmother's attic after it has been gathering dust in unbroken silence with no one to admire any of its virtues for longer than you've been alive.  The Deathbird is worth the purchase price alone.  It's a marvel.  There are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6208994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50927742">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 30 10:51:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 10:57:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=21"> STOP SMILING article</a> about Harlan Ellison:<br/><br/><strong>Bless the Knowledge, Curse the Lesson: Harlan Ellison and Counsel Fight the Good Fight</strong> <br/>By Michael Helke<br/><br/>When the band Metallica filed suit against Napster for providing its subscribers with access to copyright-protected...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50927742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22894611">
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  <date_added>Sat May 24 18:39:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 24 18:56:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harlan Ellison is one of my favorite writers of all time, and this collection is some of his best work.  No words I can write will do the man and his work justice, but he's an American treasure, and one of the best writers of the 20th Century.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="30804409">
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    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 21 12:04:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 21 12:04:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only short stories I reread.]]></body>
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    <review id="47505846">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gil]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 25 12:02:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 25 12:05:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As one of the deckhands who worked on the original edition of this Titanic of a collection, I can't be objective about its contents. I do know that I lobbied for some of the stories to be included, I wrote some of the introductions, and my several copies of this weigh down a number of bookshelves in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47505846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41094630">
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 11:07:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 11:08:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Not as much a review as a couple of statements.<br/>Since this is a short-story book, it will be read for years...<br/>This was what a Christmas gift from Liz &amp; Strange bought... THANKS!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41094630]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40714320">
    <user id="1800937">
    <name><![CDATA[Carol]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 17:32:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 17:32:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading some of his short stories now..]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40714320]]></url>
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    <review id="38292225">
    <user id="456102">
    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 03:17:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 03:17:27 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Want this.  Really want this.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38292225]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14939233">
    <user id="826758">
    <name><![CDATA[bjhn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 08 15:53:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 08 15:53:24 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just beautiful.  Beautiful in an eerie, horrifying, gut-wrenching, raw, creepy-as-hell sort of way.  Yet funny at the same time.  &quot;Mephisto in Onyx&quot; had me enthralled.  I preferred the short stories to the essays/screenplay, but to each his own.  Harlan Ellison transports you to another wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14939233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33389524">
    <user id="1365949">
    <name><![CDATA[Branduno]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 20 17:56:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 20 17:56:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many interesting things that can be said about Harlan Ellison, many of them fantastical, like the time he saved the life of a woman who was getting scammed by an internet crazy person with multiple identities, or nearly got into a spat with a video game web cartoonist. But a mouse capable ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33389524">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="1098712">
    <user id="4825">
    <name><![CDATA[Xio]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue May 08 07:43:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 08 07:48:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This man has (had?) a fascinating eye vis a vis storytelling. I can picture sitting round the campfire in a deep black forest no sky in sight only the heightened red and yellow flickering pulling the darkness through the upper branches of the trees teasing it out while the leaves flutter in the air ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1098712">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="56933746">
    <user id="1497350">
    <name><![CDATA[Kathryn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first 8 stories, in the Beginnings section, were written starting when Ellison was 15. And that's all I'm saying for now because I'm only on the 3rd story and come on, he was just a kid. The progression is what's important, right :) ]]></body>
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    <review id="28785678">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 30 14:14:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 14:16:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I refer to this book as The Bible. It has all of Harlan's greatest up to the time of publishing. And it's as thick as a bible. He's brilliant, sarcastic, poignant and so much more. I reread stories in this one ALL the time. It's a must for any sci fi fan, or anyone with any taste.]]></body>
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    <review id="32226110">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brad]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 06 22:39:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This includes an awesome amount of material, with such classics as &quot;A Boy And His Dog&quot;. Probably best not to commit to this unless you've already developed a taste for Harlan, because while the man gets lumped into the SF crowd, he's really all over the place.]]></body>
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    <review id="31145439">
    <user id="1445446">
    <name><![CDATA[Dietcoupon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who kind of likes sci-fi]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 25 10:56:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gigantic books aren't as daunting when they're full of short stories.  Ellison endings tend to leave me with a sick pit in my stomach, but thank god *somebody* knows how to end a story properly.  His prose is both witty and imaginative.]]></body>
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    <review id="1629551">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 03 11:48:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to understand the American Nervous Breakdown (to be too easy I'll say from Sputnik to the first Halloween movie) then read Ellison. Also if you want  a master class in plot he's, uh, essential.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of my favorite Ellison stories (and then some!) in one place. For those who enjoy his work, it's the indispensable collection. For those who don't, it's a great way to give him another try...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ellison is amazing...this collection contains so many great SS and one of the scariest SS I've ever read &quot;I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.&quot; It creeps me out just thinking about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK I wrote Harlan Ellison a letter when I was 18 an he called me. HOw weird was I? He was like 50. This is old school bad boy SF/F. I may write him again.]]></body>
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