About this title: 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. ...
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Edition: First Paper
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: New York: Pyramid Books, 1965, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. First Paper. Pyramid Books # X-1991. Seven short stories and an introduction by Ellison. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780515036466ISBN:0515036463
Description: Good. Light spine crease and edge wear. Binding is straight, text is toned but otherwise unmarked. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pyramid Books, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Gaughan, Jack (cover) Very Good+ No Dust Jacket. Pyramid R-1270. Seven short stories and an introduction by Ellison. No reader crease, slight shelfwear. read more
Edition: First edition. 1st thus.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pyramid
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780515036466ISBN:0515036463
Description: Dillon, Leo & Diane. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG+ 176 p. Paperback edition from Pyramid, 1975. VERY GOOD PLUS. Leo & Diane Dillon cover art. Author photo by Lance Ferraro, Sr. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pyramid R-1270, U.S.
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good- Square tight copy with a reading crease along spine on front cover, 1.5" & 2" creases on front cover, and a 3/4" crease on back. Otherwise covers are bright and show light wear. A collection of 7 short stories. read more
"This book contains the greatest short story I have ever read, but the rest of the stories in here were too bizarre for me to find interest. Ellison, for me, is hit or miss. He certainly isn't for everyone but one should at least TRY to read 'Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman' As one who fancies himself as a writer, Ellison is one of my biggest inspirations due to his incredibly original style."
"4.5 stars. Very good collection of stories. The title story is excellent but my personal favorites from this collection were (1) The Discarded (worthy of 5 stars), (2) Bright Eyes (also worthy of five stars) and, of course, "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman."
"Harlan Ellison, born in America 1934, was a prolific sci-fi creator. His work includes a number of short stories, essays, novellas, and writing credits on the television shows The Outer Limits and Star Trek. The short stories found in his collection Paingod and Other Delusions present a good example of the variety of his work; ranging from the fantastic and surreal titular Paingod, which follows the adventure of the deity of pain as it comes to question it's purpose in the universe, to the meticulously scheduled society of Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman where any tardiness is punished by having the lost time docked from the end your life. Ellison mixes surrealism, science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction together with the skills of a gifted artist, and paints his worlds with a brush of social commentary. This 1965 collection contains eight short stories, each with their own introduction by the author. In addition there are two introductions to the collection, the original introduction plus a newer one written in 1974. In 150 odd pages Ellison conjoures a number of worlds and characters, and takes the reader on journeys and adventures that will stick in your mind like splinters giving you cause to think more carefully about events and situations you may have idly brushed off before. Despite Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman being generally considered as one of his finest works, my personal favourite in this collection was The Crackpots, a story that looks at the line between sanity and madness and asks "So which side am I on really?"."
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