Paingod and Other Delusions
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.
Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth.
Touching and gentle and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths.
Contents:
- Paingod
- "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
- The Crackpots
- Bright Eyes
- The Discarded ("The Abnormals")
- Wanted in Surgery
- Deeper Than the Darkness
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality.
His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Some of his best-known work includes the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", A Boy and His Dog, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", and " 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", and as editor and anthologist for Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). Ellison won numerous awards, including multiple Hugos, Nebulas, and Edgars.
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