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1) Strange wine
With a foreword by Stephen King: Provocative and entertaining pieces from the multiple award-winning author.
Pure, hundred‑proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four‑part 'Scenes from the Real World," an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, that he created for NBC; "Tales from the Mountains of Madness"; and
5) Shatterday
"One of the great . . . American short-story writers" exposes the darkness of the human heart in these speculative tales of terror and tragedy (George R. R. Martin).
A five-year-old boy never ages, living as an immortal in a past that no longer exists while the world encroaches upon his innocence, in the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning "Jeffty Is Five."
An alien attack leaves Earth on the brink of Armageddon, as humans
Twenty-one works from "one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth," including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx (Publishers Weekly).
Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award–nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece,
Eight timeless tales from the master of speculative fiction, featuring the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."
Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor—you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight
"Ellison's stories punch where it hurts . . .and span from baroque far future speculations to near future warnings" (Science Fiction Ruminations).
Over the course of his legendary career, Harlan Ellison has defied—and sometimes defined—modern fantasy literature, all while refusing to allow any genre to claim him. A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from
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