num_pages: 318
description: Shatterday is a revolutionary classic from Harlan Ellison, science fiction’s most controversial author. This collection of sixteen visionary stories remains as scathing and influential today as when it was initially published. Read as fanatically by intellectuals as by college students, these category-defying stories combine ironic humor, sardonic social criticism, and intense self-revelation; from “Jeffty Is Five,” the tragedy of an innocent child wrenched out of an idyllic past, to humanity’s encounter with dangerously seductive aliens in “How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?”, culminating in “Shatterday,” the dark allegory of an identity-stealing doppelganger replacing his inferior twin. Back in print for the first time since its stunning debut in the early 1980s, this incendiary collection reestablishes its legendary author at the cutting-edge of the short-story form.
language: English
title: Shatterday
titlecomplete: Shatterday
genres: American, Science Fiction, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 2732
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Short Story for "Shatterday", awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Single Author Collection, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Anthology/Collection, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Balrog Award
category: Best Short Fiction for "Jeffty Is Five", awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Analog Award
category: Best Short Story for "The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge"
publisher: Tachyon Publications