Slippage
Subtitle: precariously poised, previously uncollected stories
By: Harlan Ellison.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American.
Other titles: Slip page
Description: Twenty-one stories on the fantastic and the realistic. The story, Mefisto in Onyx, is a mind reader's interview with a serial killer on Death Row, while in Go Toward the Light, a time traveller rediscovers his faith after a trip back in time to the Holy Land.
Table of contents: title: The fault in my lines; title: The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore; title: Anywhere but here, with anybody but you; title: Crazy as a soup sandwich; title: Darkness upon the face of the deep; title: The pale silver dollar of the moon pays its way and makes change; title: The lingering scent of woodsmoke; title: The museum on Cyclops Avenue; title: Go toward the light; title: Mefisto in onyx; title: Where I shall dwell in the next world; title: Chatting with Anubis; title: The few, the proud; title: Sensible city; title: The dragon on the bookshelf / (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg); title: Keyboard; title: Jane Doe #112; title: The dreams a nightmare dreams; title: Pulling hard time; title: Scartaris, June 28th; title: She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother; title: Midnight in the sunken cathedral.