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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman [MultiFormat]
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In the far future, time is considered so precious that it's a criminal offense to waste it. The dreaded Ticktockman (he hates it when people call him that) enforces the law. But then the man known only as The Harlequin came into the picture. One of Ellison's most acclaimed works, this story won both the Hugo and Nebula when it was published. It's part satire, part allegory, part warning, and all Ellison. 1965 Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 4433 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream [MultiFormat]
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Probably Ellison's most well-known story. The tyrannical computer AM has taken over the world and now a few humans trapped inside it fight for survival. (Note: Palm versions of this story contain a character representation of a punch card graphic that the original story was published with. To view the original graphic see any of the other formats. The punch card graphic and the Palm character representation of it were approved by Mr. Ellison, and he tells us that both contain a message that few ... more info>> 1967 Hugo Award Winner
Words: 6238 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream [MultiFormat]
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First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, "Pretty Maggie... more info>> 1967
Words: 47248 - Reading Time: 134-188 min.
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Gentleman Junkie [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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The original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison. 1961
Words: 85114 - Reading Time: 243-340 min.
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Paingod and Other Delusions [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor--you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down...they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the... more info>> 1965
Words: 64064 - Reading Time: 183-256 min.
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Shatterday [MultiFormat]
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Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for outstanding teleplay. Though his contemporary fantasies have been compared favorably with the dark visions of Borges, Barthelm... more info>> 1980
Words: 104875 - Reading Time: 299-419 min.
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Ellison Wonderland [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition. This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All The Sounds of Fear", "The Sk... more info>> 1962
Words: 62156 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
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Rock God [MultiFormat]
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The great god Dis rose from the dark circle of Stonehenge every 100 years, and the Bronze Age Wessex ancients dutifully performed the sacrificial ceremonies. Then came the Age of Sleep ... and now is the time of the Awakening. 1969
Words: 3882 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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The Silver Corridor [MultiFormat]
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Marmorth and Krane chose to enter the Silver Corridor, no one forced them. And now they are in a duel that will pit their theories against one another in a deadly game of illusions that is all too real. 1956
Words: 6148 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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Blind Lightning [MultiFormat]
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Kettridge was performing a routine survey. None of the data about this planet indicated that it contained nine foot tall carnivorous semi-intelligent beings... 1956
Words: 6482 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Jane Doe 112 [MultiFormat]
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A group of "unlived" walking dead haunt the man responsible for their plight--seeking not revenge, but release. 1990
Words: 4183 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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A Darkness Upon The Face Of The Deep [MultiFormat]
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A researcher for a sensationalist magazine and his archeologist friend travel to Syria searching for an ancient Hittite tomb--they carry a small stone glyph that was reportedly taken from the tomb's sarcophagus. Their journey is a paradox of confidence and fear, for as they move closer to their destination, the glyph begins to glow. 1991
Words: 6336 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Deeper than the Darkness [MultiFormat]
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Gunnderson was a hobo, a bum, shut out from society because of his unusual psi power. But even he did not know their full extent, and now Earth's military leaders have asked him to perform an unthinkable act. 1956
Words: 7657 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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Daniel White for the Greater Good [MultiFormat]
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Mainstream story of a Georgia town that bursts into racial hatred as a black man is accused of raping a sixteen year old white girl. The calm, savvy man from the NAACP comes to town to advise the black leaders in the community, but his suggestion goes beyond anything they could have imagined. This story was written during the civil rights movement. 1961
Words: 4324 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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S.R.O. [MultiFormat]
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Bart Chester was a small-time hustler. When the alien ship arrived in Times Square, he realized it was the chance of a lifetime to cash in. 1957
Words: 4139 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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The Discarded [MultiFormat]
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The Discarded flew through space in their gloom. Hideously malformed, they could never live in society. Now their leader, Bedzyk, faces a rash of suicides among his disheartened people. 1959
Words: 4767 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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Shattered Like a Glass Goblin [MultiFormat]
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Rudy is home from the army on medical discharge, and he has come to find Kris, whom he was to marry. But now she lives on The Hill, with a group of drugged-out people. And there are strange noises in the halls and in the basement. Then things got really out of control. 1968 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 3450 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty [MultiFormat]
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A man struggling to understand how he became a success visits himself as a child, only to discover that you can't go home again. 1970
Words: 5685 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Along the Scenic Route [MultiFormat]
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This story takes the concept of "road rage" to a new level. A man traveling on a freeway is threatened by another car, and now they are locked in a duel (fully sanctioned by the State) using all the gizmos that technology can provide. 1969
Words: 3688 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Ernest and the Machine God [MultiFormat]
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A manipulative woman causes a man to be killed through her plotting. Now she's on the run in an old Packard automobile. But when she has engine trouble in a small town, it's up to Ernest--who has a special relationship with the machine god--to help. 1968
Words: 6636 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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