Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young 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 Sky Is Burning, The Very Last Day of a Good Woman, and In Lonely Lands. Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point ...
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Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young 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 Sky Is Burning, The Very Last Day of a Good Woman, and In Lonely Lands. Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than fifty years later.
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Add this copy of Ellison Wonderland to cart. $48.30, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Blackstone Pub.
Add this copy of Ellison Wonderland to cart. $80.54, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Blackstone Pub.
This is a collection of early Harlan Ellison pieces; many of these had been published in ?screwed-up version[s]?, but for this 'preferred text', the author has restored the original copy and even corrected and rewritten parts, and also added a short personal introduction to each story. Here you will find them all: the surreal Harlan, the magic realist Harlan, the gritty Harlan, Harlan of the space opera, even the comical Harlan. But, somehow for me, it didn't all come together. Maybe some stories are better left in the yellowed pages of old magazines. Maybe many of the stories collected here were written too quickly, under deadlines... All I can say is that this volume is for the hardcore HE fans; to me, many of the plots seemed tired and predictable, and the style occasionally repetitive. Do not expect the magic of 'Jeffty is Five' or 'I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream' over and over again.
