There are countless Harlan Ellison courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories (2014)
- Dangerous Visions (SF Masterworks) (2012)
- Gentleman Junkie (The Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
- Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison (2014-06-24) ()
- The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World (1974)
- Can & Can’tankerous (2016)
- Stalking the Nightmare (The Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
- The Harlan Ellison Hornbook by Harlan Ellison (2014-06-03) ()
- Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (1972)
- The Other Glass Teat (Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories (2014)
Hugo Award winner I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is living legend Harlan Ellison’s masterpiece of future warfare. In a post-apocalyptic world, four men and one woman are all that remain of the human race, brought to near extinction by an artificial intelligence. Programmed to wage war on behalf of its creators, the AI became self-aware and turned against all humanity.
Dangerous Visions (SF Masterworks) (2012)
Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception.
Gentleman Junkie (The Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison’s early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues of discrimination, injustice, bigotry, and oppression by the police. Pulling from his own experience, Ellison paints vivid portraits of the helpless and downtrodden, blazing forth with the kind of unblinking honesty that would define his career.
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison (2014-06-24) ()
Paperback Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (1824) ASIN: B01HC0XIQ8 Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars 25 customer reviews Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,664,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World (1974)
Mass Market Paperback: 254 pages Publisher: Scarborough, ON: New American Library / Signet Book # Y5870 1st Printing; New American edition (1974) Language: English ASIN: B000BIU754 Package Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 customer reviews Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,438,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #202863 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction Would you like to tell us about a lo…
Can & Can’tankerous (2016)
Available for the first time in paperback! From the 1999 Chris Carter-prompted sf-noir, “Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear,” to last year’s enigmatic blend of fact and fiction, “He Who Grew Up Reading Sherlock Holmes,” CAN & CAN’TANKEROUS gathers ten previously uncollected tales from the fifth and sixth decades of Harlan Ellison’s professional writing career, a work-in-progress now encompassing over 100 books.
Stalking the Nightmare (The Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
Pure, hundred-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four-part ‘Scenes from the Real World,” an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, that he created for NBC; “Tales from the Mountains of Madness”; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life, sex, violence, and labor relations. With an absolutely killer foreword by Stephen King.
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook by Harlan Ellison (2014-06-03) ()
Paperback Publisher: Open Road Media (1804) ASIN: B01FJ0QWQ6 Shipping Information: View shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars 9 customer reviews Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (1972)
First printing (not stated, cover price 1.25) paperback. 1971 collection of stories from this winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living author – including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars.
The Other Glass Teat (Harlan Ellison Collection) (2014)
In the late 1960s, Harlan Ellison launched a weekly column for the Los Angeles Free Press, where he uncompromisingly discussed the effects of television on modern society. He assaulted everything from television sitcoms to corrupt politicians, talk shows to military massacres. Today, more than four decades later, almost all of his criticism still holds true. Open Road and Edgeworks Abbey, Ellison’s company, are proud to make this second volume of fifty-two outspoken columns widely available.
Best Harlan Ellison Books You Should Enjoy
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A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison
Author(s): Nat Segaloff, David Grubbs (editor)
ID: 3239515, Publisher: NESFA Press, Year: 2021, Size: 13 Mb, Format: epub
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Author(s): Harlan Ellison
ID: 1602689, Publisher: Open Road Media, Year: 2014, Size: 199 Kb, Format: epub
Paingod and Other Delusions
Author(s): Harlan Ellison
ID: 1602693, Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Year: 2014, Size: 214 Kb, Format: epub
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