Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction.His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience.-Gallery "Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing."-Richmond Times-Dispatch

The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny and Samuel Delany. Contents xi • Foreword: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition) • (2002) • essay by Michael Moorcock xiii • Introduction: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition • (2002) • essay by Harlan Ellison xxiii • Foreword 1-The Second Revolution • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov xxxiii • Introduction: Thirty-Two Soothsayers • (1967) • essay by Harlan Ellison (variant of Thirty-Two Soothsayers) xxxix • Foreword 2-Harlan and I • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov 1 • Evensong • (1967) • shortstory by Lester del Rey 9 • Flies • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 21 • The Day After the Day the Martians Came • (1967) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl (variant of The Day the Martians Came) 30 • Riders of the Purple Wage • (1967) • novella by Philip José Farmer 105 • The Malley System • (1967) • shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord 115 • A Toy for Juliette • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Bloch 128 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison 154 • The Night That All Time Broke Out • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 169 • The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice • (1967) • shortstory by Howard Rodman 181 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick 216 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Niven 231 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber 256 • Lord Randy, My Son • (1967) • shortstory by Joe L. Hensley 272 • Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson 295 • Incident in Moderan • [Moderan] • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 299 • The Escaping • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 305 • The Doll-House • (1967) • shortstory by James Cross 326 • Sex and/or Mr. Morrison • (1967) • shortstory by Carol Emshwiller 338 • Shall the Dust Praise Thee? • (1967) • shortstory by Damon Knight 344 • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? • (1967) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon 390 • What Happened to Auguste Clarot? • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Eisenberg 396 • Ersatz • (1967) • shortstory by Henry Slesar 404 • Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird • (1967) • shortstory by Sonya Dorman 412 • The Happy Breed • (1967) • shortstory by John Sladek [as by John T. Sladek ] 433 • Encounter with a Hick • (1967) • shortstory by Jonathan Brand 439 • From the Government Printing Office • (1967) • shortstory by Kris Neville 447 • Land of the Great Horses • (1967) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty 458 • The Recognition • (1967) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard 472 • Judas • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner 483 • Test to Destruction • (1967) • novelette by Keith Laumer 510 • Carcinoma Angels • (1967) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad 523 • Auto-da-Fé • (1967) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny 532 • Aye, and Gomorrah . . . • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

"It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting." --Harlan Ellison 15 stories by Harlan Ellison Contents "Introduction: The Waves in Rio" "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" "Along the Scenic Route" "Phoenix" "Asleep: With Still Hands" "Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R." "Try a Dull Knife" "The Pitll Pawob Division" "The Place With No Name" "White on White" "Run for the Stars" "Are You Listening?" "S.R.O." "Worlds to Kill" "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" "A Boy and His Dog"

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973, celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous Visions was never completed.Now, six years after Ellison's passing, science fiction's most famous unpublished book is here. And with it, the heartbreaking true story of the troubled genius behind it.Provocative and controversial, socially conscious and politically charged, wildly imaginative yet deeply grounded, the thirty-two never-before published stories, essays, and poems in The Last Dangerous Visions stand as a testament to Ellison's lifelong pursuit of art, representing voices both well-known and entirely new, including David Brin, Max Brooks, Cory Doctorow, Dan Simmons, AE van Vogt, Edward Bryant, and Robert Sheckley, among others.With an introduction and exegesis by J. Michael Straczynski, and a story introduction by Ellison himself, The Last Dangerous Visions is an extraordinary addition to an incredible literary legacy.

Un ordenador militar (AM, tomado de I think, therefore I AM, en inglés pienso, luego existo) toma consciencia de sí mismo y decide acabar con la raza humana mediante un holocausto nuclear, rescatando únicamente a cinco personas, cuatro hombres y una mujer. Los mantendrá con vida y presos en un laberíntico búnker sólo para torturarlos como venganza contra la humanidad por haberle creado.

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Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. The Essential Ellison, a special limited edition personally signed and numbered by Ellison, contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx."

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refused to be contained by something as rudimentary as genre, form, or even a particular label. A mind that created some of the most outrageous short stories and novellas of the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres – including “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” with its unhinged artificial intelligence bent on torturing what is left of humanity, and “Jeffty Is Five,” featuring a young boy’s mysterious, time-bending powers. A mind that passionately identified with the underdog, sometimes with disastrous results. A mind incandescent with fury, that saw storytelling as “a holy chore.” Assembled by the Harlan and Susan Ellison Foundation, Greatest Hits is an overview of Ellison’s award-winning and highly acclaimed short stories – as well as the stories that Ellison himself most treasured. Featuring a preface by Ellison’s executor and friend J. Michael Straczynski, a foreword by award-winning and bestselling author Neil Gaiman, and an introduction by bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, this collection of short stories and novellas serves as a guide to a writer who left his mark on the twentieth century – and whose legacy is in your hands.

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes. Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original. CONTENTS "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream" "Big Sam Was My Friend" "Eyes of Dust" "World of the Myth" "Lonelyache" "Delusion for Dragonslayer" "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"