The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- Prolegemenon: Millennial Musings (2001 edition)
- Introduction: Sublime Rebel (by Terry Dowling)
- Lagniappe (by Terry Dowling) (2001 edition)
- Beginnings
- The Sword of Parmagon
- The Gloconda
- The Wilder One
- The Saga of Machine Gun Joe
- Introduction to Glowworm (2001 edition)
- Glowworm
- Life Hutch
- S.R.O.
- Worlds of Terror
- Lonelyache
- Punky & the Yale Men
- A Prayer for No One's Enemy
- Pulling Hard Time (2001 edition)
- Worlds of Love
- In Lonely Lands
- The Time of the Eye
- Grail
- That New Old-Time Religion
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- Corpse
- The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
- A Stab of Merriment
- The Voice in the Garden
- Erotophobia
- Mom
- Ecowareness
- The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists
- Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept.
- Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept.
- Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish (2001 edition)
- Trouble with Women
- The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
- Valerie: A True Memoir
- The Other Eye of Polyphemus
- All the Birds Come Home to Roost
- To the Mattresses with Mean Demons
- The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory
- "Our Little Miss"
- A Love Song for Jerry Falwell
- Telltale Tics and Tremors
- True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail
- Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W
- The Function of Dream Sleep (2001 edition)
- Rococo Technology
- The Sky is Burning
- The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
- Along the Scenic Route
- The Song the Zombie Sang (with Robert Silverberg)
- Knox
- With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (2001 edition)
- Heart's Blood
- From Alabamy, with Hate
- My Father
- My Mother
- Tired Old Man
- Gopher in the Gilly
- Strange Wine
- Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird
- The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie
- Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay
- The Man on the Mushroom
- Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto
- Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool
- Petards & Hangings
- Soldier
- The Night of Delicate Terrors
- Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
- At the Mouse Circus
- Shadows from the Past
- Free with This Box!
- Final Shtick
- One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
- Jeffty is Five
- Contracts on the Soul
- Daniel White for the Greater Good
- Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine
- Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage
- The Classics
- "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
- Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
- A Boy and His Dog
- The Deathbird
- Paladin of the Lost Hour (2001 edition)
- Soft Monkey (2001 edition)
- Mefisto in Onyx (2001 edition)
- Process (2001 edition)
- Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (2001 edition)
- The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (2001 edition)
- Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2001 edition)
- Man on Spikes (2001 edition)
- Introduction to "Tired Old Man" (2001 edition)
- The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (2001 edition)
- Dark Liberation
- The Thick Red Moment
- The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
- Driving In the Spikes
- An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55 (2001 edition)
- The Streets, Installment 1 (2001 edition)
- Xenogensis (2001 edition)
- Afterword
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.
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