description: Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for outstanding teleplay. Though his contemporary fantasies have been compared favorably with the dark visions of Borges, Barthelme, Poe and Kafka, Ellison resists categorization with a vehemence that alienates critics and reviewers seeking easy pigeonholes for an extraordinary writer. The San Francisco Chronicle writes, "The categories are too small to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, purveyor of pure horror and black comedy; he is all these and more. In this, his thirty-seventh book, setting down as never before the mortal dreads we all share, Harlan Ellison has put together his best work to sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award-winners), totaling a marvel-filled 105,000 words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years.
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: Berkley