Paingod and Other Delusions

Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor--you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down...they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth. Touching and gentle and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World: Stories
• Deathbird Stories
• Dangerous Visions (SF Masterworks)
• Strange Wine (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
• Shatterday (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
• Ellison Wonderland: Stories
• Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled: Stories
• Gentleman Junkie (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
• The Glass Teat