The essential Ellison : a 35-year retrospective / edited and introduced by Terry Dowling, with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont.
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The essential Ellison : a 35-year retrospective
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English
ISBN - ISSN:
0914261010
9780914261018
0914261029
9780914261025
Physical Description:
xv, 1019 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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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The essential Ellison : a 35-year retrospective / edited and introduced by Terry Dowling, with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont.
