Dimensions of Harlan Ellison

by Harlan Ellison

For years, Harlan Ellison refused to allow his early amateur work to be collected with very few exceptions (THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON and ROUGH BEASTS among them), but the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project finally provided a suitable venue, and HE relented, authorizing this collection of early fiction and non-fiction (and even a column!) culled from fanzines published between 1952 and 1955.

Published in 2019 exclusively for backers of the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project

Edited by Jason Davis

141 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2019

About the author

Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism.

His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.

Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog".

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of Ellison writings from his pre-professional days. One or two stories show flashes of the writer he would become, and many of them deal with the culture of fandom in the early 1950s. A time capsule, in the best sense of the idea.

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

"If you haven't read Harlan Ellison, you haven't read." ~ Richard Halasz