Shatterday - Couverture souple

Ellison, Harlan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1892391481 ISBN 13 : 9781892391483

Editeur : Tachyon Publications, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has won more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer. 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 date: sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award winners, including the Nebula Award finalist titular story and the Nebula Award-winning "Jeffty Is Five") totaling a marvel-filled one hundred five thousand words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tachyon Publications
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1892391481
• ISBN 13: 9781892391483
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 318
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible