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The essential Ellison : a 35-year retrospective / edited and introduced by Terry Dowling, with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont.

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Main Author: Ellison, Harlan
Other Authors: Dowling, Terry (Editor), Delap, Richard, Lamont, Gil, Dillon, Leo (Illustrator), Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
Other title:Works. Selections. 1986
Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy 2 gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: Omaha : Nemo Press, 1987.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sublime rebel / Terry Dowling
  • I. Beginnings. The sword of Parmagon [1949]
  • The Gloconda [1949]
  • The wilder one [1955]
  • The saga of Machine Gun Joe [1955]
  • Glowworm [1956]
  • Life hutch [1956]
  • S.R.O. [1957]
  • II. Worlds of terror. Lonelyache [1964]
  • Punky & the Yale men [1966]
  • A prayer for no one's enemy [1966]
  • III. Worlds of love. In lonely lands [1959]
  • The time of the eye [1959]
  • Grail [1981]
  • IV. That new old-time religion. I have no mouth, and I must scream [1967]
  • Corpse [1972]
  • The whimper of whipped dogs [1973]
  • V.A stab of merriment. The voice in the garden [1967]
  • Erotophobia [1971]
  • Mom [1976]
  • Ecowareness [1974]
  • The outpost undiscovered by tourists [1981]
  • Dept. of "What was the question?" Dept. [1974]
  • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. [1972-1986]
  • VI. Trouble with women. The very last day of a good woman [1958]
  • Valerie: A true memoir [1972]
  • The other eye of Polyphemus [1977]
  • All the birds come home to roost [1979]
  • VII. To the mattresses with mean demons.The tombs: An excerpt from Memos from Purgatory [1961]
  • " Our little miss" [1970]
  • A love song for Jerry Falwell [1984]
  • Telltale tics and tremors [1977]
  • True love: Groping for the Holy Grail [1978]
  • Adrift just off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54ʹN, Longitude 77° 00ʹ 13ʺ W [1974]
  • VIII. Rococo technology. The sky is burning [1958]
  • The prowler in the city at the edge of the world [1967]
  • Along the scenic route [1969]
  • The song the zombie sang [1970] (with Robert Silverberg)
  • Knox [1974]
  • IX. Heart's blood. From Alabamy, with hate [1965]
  • My father [1972]
  • My mother [1976]
  • Tired old man [1975]
  • Gopher in the gilly [1982]
  • Strange wine [1976]
  • X. Nights & days in good old Hollyweird. The resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie [1968]
  • Flintlock: An unproduced teleplay [1972]
  • The man on the mushroom [1974]
  • Somehow, I don't think we're in Kansas, Toto [1974]
  • Face-down in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool [1978]
  • XI. Petards & hangings. Soldier [1957]
  • The night of delicate terrors [1961]
  • Shattered like a glass goblin [1968]
  • At the mouse circus [1971]
  • XII. Shadows from the past. Free with this box! [1958]
  • Final Shtick [1960]
  • One life, furnished in early poverty [1970]
  • Jeffty is five [1977]
  • XIII. Contracts on the soul. Daniel White for the greater good [1961]
  • Neither your Jenny nor mine [1964]
  • Alive and well and on a friendless voyage [1977]
  • XIV. The classics. " Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman [1965]
  • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes [1967]
  • A boy and his dog [1969]
  • The deathbird [1973]
  • XV. Dark liberation. The thick red moment [1982]
  • The man who was heavily into revenge [1978]
  • Driving in the spikes [1983]
  • Afterword / Harlan Ellison.

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