AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Preston Grassmann
CATEGORY  A TRIBUTE TO HARLAN ELLISON®
PUBLICATION DATE  April 2023
COVER ART  Yoshika Nagata
PAGES  575

EDITION
Trade Paperback— ISBN 978-1-978-1-78636-991-8 [£16.99]

ABOUT THE BOOK

As Nabokov says, “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”.

It was in 1998 at Dangerous Visions Bookstore, when a seismic shift altered the foundations of the room—in walked Harlan, the man who had written “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes”, “Repent Harlequin . . .” and “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”. The man who had met Bruce Lee, mouthed off to Sinatra, marched in Selma, had lived through the insanities of Hollywood producers . . . Something had happened to the crowd as if they had fallen into the path of a McCormick thresher—husks torn away to reveal something essential in their awe-struck silence.

I knew all too well how meeting one’s heroes can turn out badly, but I was indefatigable in my youth and I told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a TOC that included some of the very writers in this book. “That’s a pretty nifty list,” he had said. “Do it, kiddo.” As the years passed, the dream had fallen by the wayside, but Harlan never let me forget.

And though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally here—a book full of memories and love—thirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. It’s strong and strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes and stories of Harlan.

—Preston Grassmann

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Older Than Five, Younger Than Twelve
• Foreword 1 Second Father/First Child - Josh Olson
• Foreword 2 Harlan Ellison s Influence on Me - Ellen Datlow
• Aye, and Gomorrah - Samuel R. Delany
• The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out - Paul Di Filippo
• A Thin Silver Line - Steve Rasnic Tem
• On an Old Man s Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones - Adam Troy Castro
• Hums - Peter Crowther
• The Re-Evolution of Cloud Nine - Nikhil Singh
• The First of Many Shudders - Kaaron Warren
• Break Into Three - Nick Mamatas
• Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon - Ian McDonald
• The Last Shout of the Beast - Bruce Sterling
• Alice's - Lisa Tuttle
• Digger Split. - David Gerrold
• The Wedding Gown - Jeffrey Thomas
• And Everywhere That Mary Went - Anna Tambour
• Amniocryptic - Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
• Build Your Own Monster - Rumi Kaneko (translated by Preston Grassmann)
• Race Across a Vanishing Landscape - Gio Clairval
• Rave On - Gregory Benford
• The Collaboration - Allen M. Steele
• The Man Who Saw Wakanda - Steven Barnes
• The Starfucker Dyad - Rich Larson
• With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole - Gregory Norman Bossert
• Perfection - John Skipp & Autumn Christian
• Silicon Times e-Book Review - Greg Bear
• The Seer - Chris Kelso
• Live Inside Your Own Sky - D.R.G Sugawara
• Various Kinds of Conceits by Arthur Byron Cover
• Five Years Later - Scott Edelman
• The Fragments of a Hologram City - Preston Grassmann
• Flies - Robert Silverberg