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Approaching Oblivion
| Author: | Harlan Ellison |
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e-reads, 2009 Walker Books, 1974 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Dying Earth Cyberpunk Time Travel |
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Synopsis
The New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magizine said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep.
But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love ("Cold Friend", "Kiss of Fire", "Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman"), hate ("Knox", "Silent in Gehenna"), sex ("Catman", "Erotophobia"), lost childhood ("One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty") and into such bizarre subjects as the problems of blue-skinned, eleven-armed Yiddish aliens, what it's like to witness the end of the world and what happens on the day the planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand.
Oh yeah, this one's a doozy!
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Approaching Ellison - (1974) - essay by Michael Crichton
- Introduction: Reaping the Whirlwind - (1974) - essay
- One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970)
- Knox - (1974)
- Cold Friend - (1973)
- Kiss of Fire - (1973)
- Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman - (1962)
- I'm Looking for Kadak - (1974)
- Silent in Gehenna - (1971)
- Erotophobia - (1971)
- Ecowareness - (1974)
- Catman - (1974)
- Hindsight: 480 Seconds - (1973)
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