G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 262
June 29, 2018
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Harlan Ellison is gone but not forgotten.If you want to read his...
Harlan Ellison is gone but not forgotten.
If you want to read his work
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 included in the author’s 1997 collection Slippage )
Short-story collections
The Deadly Streets (1958)
Sex Gang (1959) (as by Paul Merchant)
Children of the Streets (1961) (originally published as The Juvies)
Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961)
Ellison Wonderland (1962) (also published as Earthman, Go Home!) Ellison calls his home in Sherman Oaks, California “Ellison Wonderland.”
Paingod and Other Delusions (1965)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
From the Land of Fear (1967)
Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968)
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)
Over the Edge (1970)
Partners in Wonder (1971) (collaborations with 14 other writers)
Approaching Oblivion (1974)
Deathbird Stories (1975)
No Doors, No Windows (1975)
Strange Wine (1978)
Shatterday (1980) (reissued 2007 by Edgeworks Abbey/Tachyon Publications)
Stalking the Nightmare (1982)
Angry Candy (1988)
Mind Fields (1994) (33 stories inspired by the art of Jacek Yerka)
Slippage (1997)
Troublemakers (2001) (collection produced for the Young Adult market and featuring, for the most part, previously collected material)
Pulling a Train (2012)
Rough Beasts (2012)
Getting in the Wind (2013)
Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013)
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014, Edgeworks Abbey)
The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014, Subterranean Press)
8 in 80 (2014)
Can & Can'tankerous (2015)
Retrospectives and omnibus collections
The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979) (contains “Paingod and Other Delusions” (1965) and “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967))
The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective (1987) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont)
Dreams With Sharp Teeth (1991) (contains “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967), Deathbird Stories (1975) and Shatterday (1980))
Edgeworks. 1 (1996) (contains “Over the Edge” (1970) and “An Edge in My Voice” (1985))
Edgeworks. 2 (1996) (contains “Spider Kiss” (1961) and “Stalking the Nightmare” (1982))
Edgeworks. 3 (1997) (contains “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook” (1990) and “Harlan Ellison’s Movie” (1990))
Edgeworks. 4 (1997) (contains Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969))
The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded (2001) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont)
The Glass Teat Omnibus: The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat
(2011) (Published by Charnel House, handmade books published in a very
limited edition, in June, with an audio recording, dated Feb. 2011, of
Ellison reading “Welcome to the Gulag”, a special introduction written
just for this new, updated, publication of the essays on and criticism
of television).
The Top of the Volcano: The Award-winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014)
