num_pages: 1040
description: Harlan Ellison. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Essential Ellison. Omaha: Nemo Press, 1987. First edition, limited to 1200 copies. Signed by Ellison. Octavo. 1019 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase.In April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid." "But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison's first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."" "Now, in a retrospective, 50 years of the best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in a volume exceeding 1200 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews and (published for the first time anywhere) a complete teleplay. Eight-six complete and (with one exception) unabridged examples of the nonpareil writings of the man The Los Angeles Times labels "the 20th Century Lewis Carroll."
language: English
title: The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective
titlecomplete: The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective
genres: Science Fiction, Collections, Essays, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 1071
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Fiction Collection, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette for "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W", awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novelette for "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W"
publisher:  Omaha: Nemo Press