Book description
Master essayist, gadfly, literary myth-figure and viewer of dark
portent, Harlan Ellison has been, for the greater part of his life, a
burr under the saddle of Complacency. His two books of TV criticism, The
Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat, are taught in more than 200
universities and colleges. In this, his former assistant and confidante,
Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works
twenty wide-ranging essays that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of
imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award of P. E.N.
International for his journalistic forays in 1982. Harlan Ellison is a
multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning writer and editor. He wrote the
script for the hugely popular Star Trek episode, The City on the Edge of
Forever, the Nebula Award-winning novella, A Boy and his Dog, and many
acclaimed stories including 'Shatterday' and 'I Have No Mouth and I Must
Scream'. His groundbreaking anthology Dangerous Visions was instrumental
in defining the New Wave movement. Harlan Ellison lives in Los Angeles.
