Harlan Ellison ® discussion

I have Shatterday and haven't read it in a long time, so I'd be onboard with that.

Shatterday is an awesome book. I think it was my first Ellison. I'm not sure how active I'll be in this group. I have to be in the right mood for Ellison. My vote would be for Slippage, since I never did get around to reading it.

Sounds great to me. Look forward to rereading Shatterday.

I am rereading it now. I have two copies of it in hardcover and the one I am reading I bought in a used book sale at a library.

I would. I think I have most of his material. I have collected his stuff for years. I don't agree with every thing he says and if I did or we did, he would accuse us of being non-thinking morons or something much worse I suspect. I think Ellison's main goal is to make you think. Not necessarily to agree with him, but to think. And how many people really make you think nowadays?

I've read a lot of his essays and non-fiction work. The first book of his essays i read was Sleepless Nights In The Procrustean Bed. It led me to collect all the rest I could get my hands on. Sleepless Nights might be a good first book to choose because it collects essays from a bunch of his books of essays and makes a good intro to them.

I really liked The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. Back when I read them in the early 90's, they were a bit inaccessible because the shows he was talking about were so old and unavailable. Today you could probably find a lot of them on Youtube or somewhere else on line and watch them as you read.

Back in the mid-90's I wrote a review column for an e-zine that folded. I've started posting the installments of it in the writing section on my home page. The 4th and 5th installments are on Ellison books.

Sleepless Nights is great. I found that one in a university library.

I actually often like Ellison's nonfiction and essays more than his stories. I recently read An Edge in My Voice and enjoyed every bit of it. I wish we still had someone like him writing like that today.

I have The Glass Teat books as well as the Sleepless Night... book. I would like to discuss those too if you all want to.

Also I would like to say thanks for reviving this group.

Sure. You wouldn't want him to sue us. Lol.

I've read Slippage but at least my memory of it is a bit sharper than that for Shatterday, despite having read it a longer time ago.

Can I suggest Spider Kiss? I don't know how available it is, but it's next on my shelf...

Funny coincidence. My library has Slippage, and I haven't read it. Although I spent an hour killing time there recently and read the beginning of the book, but I didn't check it out. If we're going to read it in October, I'll go get it; and I'll place my vote to do so!

As is always the case, I found the introductions in Slippage fascinating. I had no idea that Ellison had such momentous things happen to him in that time period (or at all)!

Good to know, but I think I'll hold out for physical books. Especially for Ellison. After all, he's my favorite author!

I was going to suggest Stalking the Nightmare, since we both have that Edgeworks volume. I read an old edition a long time ago, but I'll reread it in this one for the definitive version.

Good, I'll finish off the Edgeworks volume as my first book of the year.

Good!! Has anyone got 7 Against Chais??

I meant Chaos.