Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- Introduction: The Fault in My Line
- The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore
- Anywhere But Here, with Anybody But You
- Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
- Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep
- The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change (version 1)
- The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change (version 2)
- The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke
- The Museum on Cyclops Avenue
- Go Toward the Light
- Mefisto in Onyx
- Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World
- Chatting with Anubis
- The Few, the Proud
- The Deadly "Nackles" Affair
- Nackles (by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Curt Clark)
- Nackles
- Sensible City
- The Dragon on the Bookshelf (by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg)
- Keyboard
- Jane Doe #112
- The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams
- Pulling Hard Time
- Scartaris, June 28th
- She’s a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother
- Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral
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.