Book description
The New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then
used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magazine
said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy
sleep. But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging
like a mad thing through love ("Cold Friend", "Kiss of
Fire", "Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman"), hate
("Knox", "Silent in Gehenna"), sex
("Catman", "Erotophobia"), lost childhood ("One
Life, Furnished in Early Poverty") and into such bizarre subjects
as the problems of blue-skinned, eleven-armed Yiddish aliens, what it's
like to witness the end of the world and what happens on the day the
planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand. Oh yeah, this one's a doozy!
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.
