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Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains 16 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 50 years later.
©1962, 1974, 1990, 2002 Harlan Ellison (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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The first Ellison I've read... did not disappoint!
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He will tell you that he infuriated a good friend by refusing to tell which famous person invited him to a party - only to then talk all about his good friend Kurt Vonnegut or how he met whitey bulger, the famous mobster.
But to be fair - he does tell you that he is a professional liar. I don’t know what to make of it.
Not Stories: self-aggrandizing Essays about himself
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up nearly half the book. Just listening to him unleash his unrestrained stream of consciousness, exposing so many people who had done the dirty on him 40, 50, 60 years ago, with unrestrained wit & vitriol, is hysterically funny and better than the rest of the book.
As Josh Olson says, the stories are early, formative, light & fluffy short stories, written by a young man.
The are like listening to “She Loves You”, when you know “Sgt. Pepper’s” is in the future.
Seriously though, this whole book is worth buying, just for the glimpse into what Harlan would have been like, if he was your friend and you were sitting around having drinks while he told anecdotes about his life.
Such an insight.
The best part of this book was Ellison’s diatribe.
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Good listen...it's just that...
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Harlan was truly one of a kind.
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If you haven’t read Ellison before these are earlier works and you may first want to check out his Edge in My Voice collections, which include many of his best stories. He also reads/performs many of the stories in the collection, which I prefer. The other performers are also very good.
Ellison Wonderland is fun and the new material makes it worth your while if you’ve previously read the book.
Here is a breakdown of the contents:
• GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE: AN APPRECIATION OF HARLAN ELLISON by J. Michael Straczynski
• Author’s Introduction: THE MAN ON THE MUSHROOM (1974/1984)
• Author’s new Introduction: DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU: THE LAST DANGEROUS INTRODUCTION TO ELLISON WONDERLAND (2013)
• COMMUTER’S PROBLEM
• DO-IT-YOURSELF (Written in collaboration with Joe L. Hensley)
• THE SILVER CORRIDOR
• ALL THE SOUNDS OF FEAR
• GNOMEBODY
• THE SKY IS BURNING
• MEALTIME
• THE VERY LAST DAY OF A GOOD WOMAN
• BATTLEFIELD
• DEAL FROM THE BOTTOM
• THE WIND BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
• ARE YOU LISTENING? (AKA, THE FORCES THAT CRUSH)
• NOTHING FOR MY NOON MEAL
• HADJ
• RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY
• IN LONELY LANDS
• BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS
• AFTERWORD by Josh Olson
Your Audio Guide to Ellison Wonderland
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that introductions one hell of a rant Harlan...
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Crotchety Ole Harlan Ellison!
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A Man Who Asked for Woke, but Would Get Cancelled
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What a great listen, Ellison never disappoints
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