Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- Introduction by Frank M. Robinson
- Preface
- Final Shtick
- Gentleman Junkie
- May We Also Speak?
- Daniel White for the Greater Good
- Lady Bug, Lady Bug
- Free With This Box!
- There's One on Every Campus
- At the Mountains of Blindness
- This Is Jackie Spinning
- No Game for Children
- The Late, Great Arnie Draper
- High Dice
- Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center
- Someone Is Hungrier (as by Pat Roeder)
- Memory of a Muted Trumpet
- Turnpike
- Sally in Our Alley
- The Silence of Infidelity
- Have Coolth
- RFD #2 ("For Services Rendered", with Henry Slesar)
- No Fourth Commandment ("Wandering Killer")
- The Night of Delicate Terrors
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality.
His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Some of his best-known work includes the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", A Boy and His Dog, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", and " 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", and as editor and anthologist for Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). Ellison won numerous awards, including multiple Hugos, Nebulas, and Edgars.