The Essential Ellison : A 50 Year Retrospective

Updated from the popular 35-year retrospective collection, this book surveys an extra 15 years of his work. Included here are more than 75 unabridged stories, essays, personal reminiscences, and reviews, a complete teleplay and novella, and 16 previously uncollected stories. The Essential Ellison presents such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "The Deathbird," and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." This expanded edition adds such important new stories as "With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole," "Paladin of the Lost Hour," and "Xenogenesis," along with the novella "Mefisto in Onyx."

Master fantasist, Harlan Ellison has written and edited nearly eighty books and has garnered countless awards. He has won everything from Hugos, Nebulas, Silver Pens, and is the only writer to have won the Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Teleplay four times. He is considered by many to be the finest contemporary short story and essay writer.