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1) Spider kiss
"A dynamite piece of storytelling"—the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author turns to musical fiction in a novel of a rock star's tumultuous career (AllReaders.com).
If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll
3) Shatterday
As one of the great writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century, Harlan Ellison shaped the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. This inventive and provocative collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed...
The classic collection of criticism about television and American culture from the late, multi-award-winning legend.
From 1968 through 1972, Harlan Ellison penned a series of weekly columns, sharing his uncompromising thoughts about contemporary television programming for the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. "The Freep," a countercultural, underground newspaper. Sitcoms and variety shows, westerns and cop dramas, newscasts
A remarkably trenchant collection of early stories by "the dark prince of American letters" exploring the injustice and desperation of a forgotten America (Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life).
Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison's early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories
From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama.
Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid‑fifties, Harlan Ellison—kicked out of college and hungry to write—went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from
Winner of the Nebula Award: A boy and his telepathic dog fight to survive in a war-torn, postapocalyptic world in this hard-hitting science fiction novella.
In an alternate world in which John F. Kennedy survived and scientific breakthroughs in animal research and telepathy allow for advanced communication with animal companions, fifteen-year-old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, scavenge the wastelands of a war-torn United
11) Strange Wine
From "one of the great . . . American short story writers," comes a collection of dark fantastical fiction (The Washington Post).
In the Locus Award–winning "Croatoan," a man descends into the sewers of New York City to confront the detritus of his irresponsibility.
An "Emissary from Hamelin" presents humanity with an ultimatum, or everyone on Earth will have a dear price to pay the piper.
Tales of love, sex, and relationships as only "one of the great . . . American short story writers" can tell them (The Washington Post Book World).
A one-night stand begins a tragic journey that consumes a man's soul in "Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine."
Afraid to interact with men who would condemn her as ugly, a young woman imagines herself living the love lives of every woman she sees until one daydream becomes
Terrifying tales of teenage gangs and life on the mean streets from the multiple award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog.
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author
...Stories of fear in all its forms, from "the leading craftsman in the literature of terror and dread" (Louisville Courier Journal & Times).
You have nothing to fear but fear itself. The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days—the rejection by a beautiful woman, the threat of impending nuclear holocaust, the erratic behavior of wackos walking the streets who only need a wrong word
genetically-altered telepathic dog, in a struggle for survival against violent marauders, deadly
radioactive insects, and an underground community desperate to restore the human race in the
Hugo Award–nominated and Nebula Award–winning novella, "A Boy and His Dog,"—the
basis of the cult classic film.
An intergalactic conspiracy...