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How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison?

 

A mind that refused to be contained by something as rudimentary as genre, form, or even a particular label. A mind that created some of the most outrageous short stories and novellas of the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres – including “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” with its unhinged artificial intelligence bent on torturing what is left of humanity, and “Jeffty Is Five,” featuring a young boy’s mysterious, time-bending powers. A mind that passionately identified with the underdog, sometimes with disastrous results. A mind incandescent with fury, that saw storytelling as “a holy chore.”

 

Assembled by the Harlan and Susan Ellison Foundation, Greatest Hits is an overview of Ellison’s award-winning and highly acclaimed short stories – as well as the stories that Ellison himself most treasured. Featuring a preface by Ellison’s executor and friend J. Michael Straczynski, a foreword by award-winning and bestselling author Neil Gaiman, and an introduction by bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, this collection of short stories and novellas serves as a guide to a writer who left his mark on the twentieth century – and whose legacy is in your hands. (Verlagstext)

 

Included stories:

"Repent, Harlequin," Said the Ticktockman (1966),

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967),

The Deathbird (1974),

Chatting with Anubis (1995),

The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973),

Jeffty Is Five (1977),

Pretty Maggie Mooney (1967),

Shatterday (1980),

Mefisto in Onyx (1993),

On the Downhill Side (1972),

Paladin of the Lost Hour (1986),

The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969),

I'm Looking for Kadak (1974),

How Interesting: A Tiny Man (2010),

Djinn, No Chaser (1983),

How's the Night Life on Cissalda? (1977),

From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet (1976) and

Eidolons (1989).