Bøger af Harlan Ellison

A collection of award-winning short stories, including the viral "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner. > Featuring these stories and many more: "'Repent, Harlequin, ' Said the Ticktockman" -- Hugo Award winner "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" -- Bram Stoker Award winner "Mefisto in Onyx" -- Bram Stoker Award winner "Jeffty Is Five" -- British Fantasy Award winner "Shatterday" -- Twilight Zone episode "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" -- Edgar Allan Poe Award winner "Paladin of the Lost Hour" -- Hugo Award winner, Twilight Zone episode A must-read for sci-fi book lovers and fans of Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov, this career-spanning compilation of classic short stories is also perfect for readers who enjoyed Dangerous Visions, A Boy and His Dog, or other Harlan Ellison books.

A stage adaptation of short stories by award-winning fantasist Harlan Ellison (including "Shatterday" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour") written by playwright Robert Armin. Welcome to Harlan Ellison's MORTAL DREADS: six extraordinary tales that tear through the fabric of space and time and reveal the gaping hole which opens onto Some Other Place... If you find these dark dreams troubling, maybe it's because they're your dreams! A weary traveler on the Pacific Coast Highway seeks shelter from a torrential rain and discovers a bizarre little bookshop where even the most casual browser can find exactly what he or she is looking for. A young man's late night hot dog run is interrupted by a stranger's tragically comic discourse on love and loss. While attending a literary cocktail party, a writer grudgingly strikes up a conversation with a charming old man who may have an unexpected impact on his life. A public relations hack is forced to confront his own shabby existence in a life-altering telephone conversation with himself. A bookstore saleswoman is confronted by an angry and pugnacious writer who demands justice for the woebegone victims of the New York Literary Establishment. A Vietnam vet rescues an old man from a mugging and discovers the secret of a most unusual pocket watch.

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."

An irreverent, brilliant, and outspoken collection of essays by the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of Strange Wine. At the beginning of the 1980s, Harlan Ellison agreed to write a regular column for the L.A. Weekly on the condition that they published whatever he wrote with no revisions and no suggestions for rewrites. What resulted was impassioned, persuasive, abusive, and hilarious. Part essay, part conversation, all Ellisonthese pieces provide a glimpse into a great mind, at ease in tackling both grand ideas and the minutiae of the day to day. Collected here in An Edge in My Voice, these works also open a window to a decade when a newspaper would accept such a risky venture from such a powerful voice,

The late, multi-award-winning author of The Glass Teat continues his critical assault on television in this second collection of classic criticism. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were only three major television networks broadcasting original programs and news. And there was only one Harlan Ellison taking them all to task in a series of weekly essays he wrote for the countercultural, underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. ';The Freep.' For nearly four years, he channel surfed through the mire of ABC, CBS, and NBC, finding little of value but much to critique. No one offered a more astute analysis of the idiot box's influence on American culture, or its effects on the intelligence and psyche of viewers. The Other Glass Teat: Further Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television collects Ellison's final fifty columns, presenting his thoughts on everything from dramas and sitcoms to game shows and roundtable discussions, unleashing his fury against sponsors, the nightly news, and the broadcasts of President Nixonwarning readers about the commander-in-chief's war against the media long before the Watergate scandal broke. As television has evolved into wireless streaming services and digital interactions on portable devices, Ellison's timeless rage against the machine has become prophecy. His plea to unplug is an even more necessary call to action in the face of the twenty-first century's media onslaught. Also available: The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television

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". This work contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx." It includes black-and-white photos.