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I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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>> (Published: 1967) Hugo Award Winner
Words: 6238 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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. (Published: 1965) Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 4433 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Dangerous Visions [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Included in this memorable collection of 33 original stories are 7 winners and 13 nominees for the prestigious Hugo and Nebula Awards. Lester Del Rey / Robert Silverberg / Frederik Pohl / Philip Jose Farmer / Miriam Allen deFord / Robert Bloch / Harlan Ellison / Brian W. Aldiss / Howard Rodman / Philip K. Dick / Larry Niven / Fritz Leiber / Joe L. Hensley / Poul Anderson / David R. Bunch / James Cross m/ Carol Emshwiller / Damon Knight / Theodore Sturgeon / Larry Eisenberg / Henry Slesar / Sonya... more info>> (Published: 1967)
Words: 212143 - Reading Time: 606-848 min.
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Again, Dangerous Visions [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry--Ross Rocklynne--Ursula K. Le Guin--Andrew J. Offutt--Gene Wolfe--Ray Nelson--Ray Bradbury--Chad Oliver--Edward Bryant--Kate Wilhelm--James B. Hemesath--Joanna Russ--Kurt Vonnegut--T. L. Sherred--K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)--H. H. Hollis--Bernard Wolfe--David Gerrold--Piers Anthony--Lee Hoffman--Gahan Wilson--Joan ... more info>> (Published: 1972)
Words: 353955 - Reading Time: 1011-1415 min.
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Final Trophy [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Derr was the greatest hunter of them all, bagging game on a dozen planets. But his greatest challenge was the Ristable and the incomprehensible legends about it told by the natives.
Words: 4496 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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A Friend to Man [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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His master was an artist, but now the robot known only as Most Unworthy One waits helplessly in a pile of rubble for him to return... but his master was engaged in what might be the final war against a terrifying robotic enemy. (Published: 1959)
Words: 2385 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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Deathbird Stories [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection. (Published: 1975)
Words: 101814 - Reading Time: 290-407 min.
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Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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A female homicide detective encounters an inexplicable case. The dead vagrant man seems to have a different biology than usual ... and a loyal following of beautiful supermodels who no longer want to live without him.
Words: 4310 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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If you steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes, you send him to hell, for he has no way to pay for his passage. Who is this woman who dares to take the pennies from a dead man's eyes? The foundling whom the dead man raised is going to find out, that's for sure. And he'll use all his abilities to do it. (Published: 1969)
Words: 3328 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Shatterday [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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A man's life is shattered as he meets a better version of himself. This story was made into an episode of "The New Twilight Zone" and starred a young Bruce Willis. (Published: 1975) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 4994 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Function of Dream Sleep [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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A man is haunted by strange and terrifying dreams, but he isn't so sure there isn't an extra dimension of reality to them. Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee, Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 9792 - Reading Time: 27-39 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Along the Scenic Route [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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. (Published: 1969)
Words: 3688 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Ernest and the Machine God [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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. (Published: 1968)
Words: 6636 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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Footsteps [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Los Angeles has become too dangerous for this predatory Child of the Night, and it is time to move on. When Claire arrives in Paris, she is ravenously hungry and eager to start the bloody conquest of her new territory. (Published: 1980)
Words: 4270 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Horror
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From the Land of Fear [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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From the Land of Fear: 11 Side Trips to the Dark Edge of Imagination. Eleven tales by master storyteller Harlan Ellison. (Published: 1967)
Words: 61916 - Reading Time: 176-247 min.
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Gnomebody [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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A rebellious teenager is granted a free wish from the gnome he catches, and gets just what he asks for.... (Published: 1956)
Words: 2147 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
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Harlan Ellison's Movie [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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The republication of Harlan Ellison's Movie, the full-length feature film he created when a producer at 20th Century-Fox said to him, "If we gave you the money, and no interference, what sort of movie would you write?" Well, that producer is no longer at 20th, he left the whole entire venue of moviemaking after Harlan Ellison's Movie was seen by the Suits at the studio. There's no use even trying to describe what the film is about, except to confirm the long-standing rumor that it contaims a sce... more info>> (Published: 1973)
Words: 28677 - Reading Time: 81-114 min.
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Life Hutch [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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As Ernie Terrence guides his damaged sniper-class scout ship onto a Life Hutch planetoid, he expects the little rescue station he finds there to keep him comfortable while the Fleet responds to his distress signal. Instead, he is confronted by an unexpected adversary. (Published: 1956)
Words: 4553 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Memos From Purgatory [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time ... more info>> (Published: 1961)
Words: 62123 - Reading Time: 177-248 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>> (Published: 1965)
Words: 64064 - Reading Time: 183-256 min.
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Shatterday [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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>> (Published: 1980)
Words: 104875 - Reading Time: 299-419 min.
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She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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He found his love Camilla 15 years ago, and in all their travels together, she has never said anything about her family ... and now she wants to go home. (Published: 1988) Bram Stoker Award Recommendation
Words: 6379 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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The City on the Edge of Forever [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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The Original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison 'The City on the Edge of Forever' has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version--which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, 'The City on the Edge of Forever' won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award (the only teleplay ever ... more info>> (Published: 1995)
Words: 69928 - Reading Time: 199-279 min.
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The Crackpots [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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The members of the Watcher Corp surveillance teams record the insane antics of the Crackpots around the clock with their dicto-boxes, yet the Superior cannot explain why Corps members are disappearing. (Published: 1956)
Words: 14001 - Reading Time: 40-56 min.
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The Discarded [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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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. (Published: 1959)
Words: 4767 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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