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Jetzt, wo #HarlanEllison|s klassische #NewWave #ScienceFiction-Anthologie »Gefährliche Visionen« (1967; erstmals vollständig Deutsch #CarcosaVerlag, 2026) raus ist, gönne ich mir z.B. YT-Besprechungen der von mir übersetzten #PhilipJoséFarmer Story »Reiter der Purpurprämie«. Ist ja eine heikle Geschichte, mit massig Kalauern und bewusst provokanten Szenen, gemischt mit Satire auf Gott und die Welt, insbesondere experimentelle Literatur. Emily & Greg hatten ›dennoch‹ Spaß.
https://youtu.be/0HwwHPJe00w

Heut sind meine Belegexemplare der #HarlanEllison-Anthologie »Gefährliche Visionen« (1967; zum ersten mal komplett Deutsch #CarcosaVerlag 2026) angekommen. Ich durfte mir an »Reiter der Puprpurprämie« von #PhilipJoséFarmer die Zähne ausbeißen.

Würde ja irre gern ein Exemplar der Frankfurter Stadtbücherei schenken, aber nachdem die mein Belegegeschenk von #AlanMoores »Jerusalem« auf dem Flohmarkt-Tisch verscherbelt haben, statt es in Bestand einzupflegen, hab ich irgendwie keine Lust.

Allied Mastercomputer's message to Humanity

Read by the author

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EddX9hnhDS4

#ai #hatespeech #harlanellison

Fantastyka:
»Harlan Ellison „Opowiadania najlepsze”«

To opowiadania, które burzyły konwencje i które wciąż powalają czytelników – od Kajaj się, Arlekinie – rzekł Tiktaktor i Nie mam ust, a muszę krzyczeć po Wszystkie kłamstwa, które są moim życiem. To nie jest zwykła lektura. To okazja do osobistego spotkania z wyjątkowym pisarzem, który nie bał się mówić głośno prawdy, nawet jeśli raniła.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/harlan-ellison-opowiadania-najlepsze/

#Fahrenheit_zin #ZbigniewAKrólicki #DomWydawniczyRebis #Wehikułczasu #HarlanEllison #Rebis #Opowiadanianajlepsze #SławomirFolkman #KrzysztofTropiło #GreatestHits

Harlan Ellison: Greatest hits

No nyt on kovaa kamaa. Harlan Ellison oli nimenä hämärästi tuttu, mutta en muistanut aiemmin lukeneeni mitään häneltä. Tässä novellikokoelmassa oli kuitenkin muutama niin tutun tuntuinen tarina, että olen niihin varmasti jossain törmännyt. Joitain niistä on julkaistu suomeksi Kuoleman kirjat -antologiassa ja muissa kauhunovellikokoelmissa. Olen myös saattanut nähdä Shatterdayn ja Paladin of the Lost Hourin telkkarista Hämärän rajamailla -sarjassa. Shatterdayssa mies on soittamassa baarista kaverilleen, mutta valitsee epähuomiossa oman numeronsa, ja kotoa puhelimeen vastaa - hän itse. Paladin of the Lost Hourissa nuori mies tutustuu hautausmaalla vanhukseen, jolla on erikoinen taskukello.

Kirjan novellit on ryhmitelty neljään osaan: Angry Gods, Lost Souls, The Passage of Time ja The Lighter Side, lisäksi viimeinen pitkä novelli All the Lies That Are My Life on omana osionaan. Näistä kahden ensimmäisen osion novellit olivat ihan mieletöntä tykitystä alusta loppun, olin joka tarinan jälkeen aivan häpnaadilla lyöty. Miten voi ihmisellä olla noin uskomaton mielikuvitus ja taito kirjoittaa! Jotkut novellit luin heti toiseen kertaan, kun olin niin vaikuttunut niistä.

Kirjan loppupuolen tarinat olivat minusta vähän heikompia, tosin helmiä oli joukossa sielläkin. Varsinkin How's the Night Life on Cissalda? on aivan hulvaton tarina temponautista, joka toisesta ulottuvuudesta palatessaan tuo mukanaan vastenmielisen olennon, jonka todetaan pitkällisten tutkimusten perusteella olevan "the most perfect fuck in the universe". Olentoja alkaa ilmaantua lisää ja siitähän maailma sekoaa.

Vuonna 2024 julkaistussa kokoelmassa on novelleja viideltä vuosikymmeneltä, vanhin vuodelta 1966 ja tuorein 2010. (Ellison kuoli 2018.) Lähes kaikki ovat saaneet yhden tai useamman tieteis- tai kauhukirjallisuuspalkinnon (Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Locus). Vahva suositus kauhun ja outojen tarinoiden ystäville!

#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #harlanellison #greatesthits

Harlan Ellison fans and writer paycheck dreamers here is why you pay writers. And why I am tired. https://inkican.com/why-you-pay-writers-harlan-ellison #harlanellison #amwriting

Great horror short story about AI, by Harlan Ellison, published in... 1967.

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

First published in IF: World of Science Fiction, March 1967.

(I read it in "American Fantastic Tales: terror and the uncanny from the 1940s until now", editor Peter Straub)

https://bookwyrm.social/book/311368/s/american-fantastic-tales

#AI #scienceFiction #harlanEllison

Norman Spinrad hat heute Geburtstag. Seine Story "Die letzte Grenze" hat mich als junger Teenager nachhaltig beeindruckt. Sie heißt eigentlich "Carcinoma Angels", und ich durfte sie kurz vor dem Ende meiner Übersetzerlaufbahn tatsächlich neuübersetzen. Das war schön! 🖤

(Gefährliche Visionen, hg. von Harlan Ellison, Carcosa i.V.)

https://wandering.shop/@SFRuminations/115207906107805840

#NormanSpinrad #HarlanEllison #ScienceFiction

I'm listening to the audiobook of *The Last Dangerous Visions*. I'm an hour in, and it's still #JoeStraczynski talking and talking and ....

He quotes Harlan, but it's over an hour (I think two hours, but I'm not done yet) of #JMS writing before the actual stories. I'm just one guy, but it strikes me as a bit ... much. At least spread out the novel-length #HarlanEllison essay a bit!

Note that there's lots more of Joe in the book, since he wrote all but one of the introductions to the stories.

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: The Last Dangerous Visions, die legendäre dritte Anthologie, herausgegeben von Harlan Ellison (und nach dessen Tod J.Michael Straczynsky), über 50 Jahre erwartet, vor wenigen Monaten erschienen. #sciencefiction #HarlanEllison #bookstodon @bookstodon zum Teil gruselig zeitgemäss, wobei das beim Beitrag von @pluralistic kein Wunder ist, der überzeugt ja fast immer.

RESEÑA

Durante la Tercera Guerra Mundial, Rusia, China y Estados Unidos construyen unas super computadoras tan inteligentes que cobran conciencia de sí mismas, se agrupan y se hacen llamar AM (aggressive menace), y aniquilan a la humanidad. AM solo deja vivas a cinco personas, a las que concede la inmortalidad virtual y tortura indefinidamente, privándoles antes de sus capacidades.

“No tengo boca y debo gritar” es un relato corto de Harlan Ellison que mezcla la ciencia ficción con el terror de una forma que causa impacto y desagrado en el lector. Fue publicado en 1967, donde ya entonces la posibilidad de que la tecnología terminara sobrepasándonos y volviéndose hostil contra el ser humano estaba en las mentes de los que se atrevían a especular sobre el futuro. La historia apenas carece de contexto, y tampoco abundan las descripciones. Solo el horror prevalece, el sentimiento de derrota, y de inmenso arrepentimiento por haber dado vida a una mente virtual que solo conoce el odio, pues ha sido creada por los hombres para aniquilarse entre ellos. Y ahora que ha tomado conciencia, solo quiere vengarse.

“¿De dónde había obtenido el concepto? ¿Sería de sus conocimientos sobre todo lo que había existido en este planeta, que ahora infestaba y regía?”

“Le habíamos permitido que pensara, pero no le expresamos lo que debía hacer con ese don. No podía divagar, no podría sorprenderse, ni pertenecer. Solo podía ser.”

#reseñasdelibros
#harlanellison

I must have read "I have no mouth, and I must scream" by #HarlanEllison decades ago.
It's one of the scariest things I've read in my life.
Yet I've not read much else of his writings.
I've just gone through "jeffty is five" and it's a masterpiece.
#scifi #books #bookstodon

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

We recommend ‘I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream’. This short #horror #scifi story of a rogue and sadistic AI by #HarlanEllison served as the source material for fantastic comic, video game and audio drama adaptations (surely a faithful #Netflix adaptation can’t be far off right?)

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the #NewWave in #ScienceFiction and the #DangerousVisions anthologies, including the newly-published #TheLastDangerousVisions. #SFF #HarlanEllison #JMichaelStraczynski #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/starshipsofa-745-john-kessel/id166360307?i=1000676531798

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the #NewWave in #ScienceFiction and the #DangerousVisions anthologies, including the newly-published #TheLastDangerousVisions. #SFF #HarlanEllison #JMichaelStraczynski #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/starshipsofa-745-john-kessel/id166360307?i=1000676531798

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the #NewWave in #ScienceFiction and the #DangerousVisions anthologies, including the newly-published #TheLastDangerousVisions. #SFF #HarlanEllison #JMichaelStraczynski #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/starshipsofa-745-john-kessel/id166360307?i=1000676531798

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the #NewWave in #ScienceFiction and the #DangerousVisions anthologies, including the newly-published #TheLastDangerousVisions. #SFF #HarlanEllison #JMichaelStraczynski #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/starshipsofa-745-john-kessel/id166360307?i=1000676531798

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the #NewWave in #ScienceFiction and the #DangerousVisions anthologies, including the newly-published #TheLastDangerousVisions. #SFF #HarlanEllison #JMichaelStraczynski #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/starshipsofa-745-john-kessel/id166360307?i=1000676531798

@anon_opin I'm sure #HarlanEllison would have found a reason to sue if that was the case

After a wait of merely (checks watch) 50 YEARS, my copy of #LastDangerousVIsions arrived today! #Books #JMS #HarlanEllison

After over 3 decades (including two lifetime subs), my #Interzone subscription has ended, and I don't see the point in renewing. I managed to finish two stories in about the last 10 issues, and I didn't find those 2 all that interesting. I don't think I ever got over the departure of #DavidPringle

At the same time, I'm re-reading the first "Dangerous Visions" anthology by #HarlanEllison . I still remember some of the stories, decades after I last read it.

#ScienceFiction #scifi

« … a man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams. »

― Harlan Ellison

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/762084940582207488/a-man-may-truly-live-in-his-dreams-his-noblest

#quotes #HarlanEllison #dreams #fulfillment #character #worthiness

Late to the party as usual…

#10Authors5BooksEach

Tanith Lee #TanithLee
Philip K. Dick #PhilipKDick
Dorothy L. Sayers #DorothyLSayers
Ray Bradbury #RayBradbury
Ursula K. Le Guin #UrsulaKLeGuin
Neil Gaiman #NeilGaiman
Nnedi Okorafor #NnediOkorafor
Michael Moorcock #MichaelMoorcock
Leigh Brackett #LeighBrackett
Harlan Ellison #HarlanEllison

@bookstodon #Bookstodon

Virgil Finlay illustrating the Harlan Ellison story ‘Wanted In Surgery’ from IF Worlds of Science Fiction, August 1957. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #HarlanEllison #Robots #Doctors #BedsideManner #ScienceFiction #SF @sciencefiction @scifi

Übrigens: Ende März erschien die neue Ausgabe der klassischen von #HarlanEllison herausgegebenen #ScienceFiction-Anthologie in neuer Auflage, und erste vollständige deutsche Ausgabe von »Dangerous Visions« (1967) wird derzeit bei #CarcosaVerlag vorbereitet (ich darf den #PhilipJoséFarmer machen).

Im Juni und Oktober folgen dann die beiden englischsprachigen Fortsetzungen von 1972 und 2024. Bin gespannt, ob die dann auch bei uns kommen werden.

Und: ich finde die Gestaltung sehr schick.

On finding time to be creative https://mikepaul.com/on-finding-time-to-be-creative/ #AustinKleon, #CreativeLeadership, #Creativity, #Education, #Gifts, #HarlanEllison, #Leadership, #RyanHoliday, #StephenKing, #Teachers

On finding time to be creative https://mikepaul.com/on-finding-time-to-be-creative/ #AustinKleon, #CreativeLeadership, #Creativity, #Education, #Gifts, #HarlanEllison, #Leadership, #RyanHoliday, #StephenKing, #Teachers

On finding time to be creative https://mikepaul.com/on-finding-time-to-be-creative/ #AustinKleon, #CreativeLeadership, #Creativity, #Education, #Gifts, #HarlanEllison, #Leadership, #RyanHoliday, #StephenKing, #Teachers

#ICYMI: Looking for a #modern #scifi #novella to #read?

Check out this #great #bookrecommendation #video, featuring #books by #AlastairReynolds, @catvalente, #TedChiang, @scalzi, #HarlanEllison, #PeterWatts, @michaelshotter 🙂, and #NnediOkorafor!

https://youtu.be/me0tMADQ1X8

#sciencefiction #reading #recommendations #readingcommunity #booksofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXIV (Harlan Ellison, Gillian Freeman, Mick Farren, Fritz Leiber)

A new year and new books!

Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?

1. From the Land of Fear, Harlan Ellison (1967)

• Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1st edition

From the back cover: “SCIENCE FICTION STORIES by Award Winning Author

WHERE DID HARLAN ELLISON COME FROM?

At 13 he ran away from home in Ohio and joined a carnival. At 15 he was driving a dynamite truck in North Carolina. At 19 he was thrown out of college and at 21 had sold his first novel. Today he is 33 and is considered one of the top screenwriters in Hollywood. Fairly ordinary background? True.

But somewhere along the way, Harlan Ellison made a strange detour. He vanished into a country of the mind where time and space ceased to exist, where strange ideas and wild adventures were commonplace. He came back from that dark world, carrying away with him its richest treasures: stories unlike any ever told before. In this unusual book you will sample these “stray dreams.”

FROM THE LAND OF FEAR!”

Contents (fiction only): “The Sky Is Burning” (1958), “My Brother Paulie” (1958), “The Time of the Eye” (1959), “Life Hutch” (1956), “Battle Without Banners” (1964), “Back to the Drawing Boards” (1958), “‘We Mourn for Anyone…'” (1957), “The Voice in the Garden” (1967), “Soldier” (1957), “Soldier” (1957) (screenplay).

Initial Thoughts: I recent finished over my winter break a fascinating monograph on Harlan Ellison–Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe’s Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (2002). It inspired me to track down more of his fictions. I snagged the monograph as I thoroughly enjoyed the two stories of his I reviewed for my series on subversive accounts of space travel.

What are your favorite stories from this collection?

2. The Feelies, Mick Farren (with illustrations by Chris Welch) (1978)

• Chris Welch’s cover for the 1st edition

From the back cover: “Some time in the future in a world of gleaming glass and megastructures, interspersed with slum remains, society is set in rigid economic groups. The ultimate goal has become a lifetime in The Feelies–hooked up to sensory input machines, entombed in coffin-like structures, living out private fantasies manufactured to order. For most it remains an impossible dream: drink, drugs and 24-hour TV blur the edges of a reality they seek to erase. Only the rich and powerful can afford the ultimate luxury of eternal feelie time. But a few like Wanda Jean have just once chance in a lifetime–to win the TV contest Wildest Dreams and take her place in the lifer vaults. Yet even a mechanical dream can turn into a technician’s nightmare–the results are literally mind blowing.”

Initial Thoughts: I’ve only read one Mick Farren novel–The Texts of Festival (1973). It was average. But due to my media series I thought this short-ish novel might be something I cover (albeit it has focused on short fiction so far). I deliberately tracked down the first UK edition as it was revised for the 1990 US edition. Personally, I’m far more interested in 70s dystopic visions of media nightmare vs. late 80s/early 90s.

3. The Leader, Gillian Freeman (1965)

• Uncredited cover for the 1968 edition

From the back cover: “Vincent Wright, as he comes to call himself, fancies that he is different from the other clerks in the bank. In the privacy of his own apartment, standing on the sofa to look in the mirror, he invents a new salute and dreams a dictator’s dreams… THE LEADER.”

Initial Thoughts: I buy far more near future rise of fascism in the UK novels then I’ll ever read… BUT. I know little to nothing about this novel so it might it might be a hidden gem. Gillian Freeman seems best known for her novel The Leather Boys (1961)–one of many novels about juvenile delinquency and early swinging London i.e. Only Lovers Left Alive (1964). The Leather Boys was adapted into a film in 1964. The Leader seems mostly forgotten…

4. The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber (1975)

• Jack Gaughan’s cover for the 1st edition

From the back cover: “Have a literary cocktail with writer Lin Carter calls ‘probably the finest living writer of sword and sorcery,’ and whose five Hugos prove his equal status in the realm of science fiction. Here’s what Fritz Leiber is offering, in his own words”

Contents (fiction only): “The Lion and the Lamb” (1950), “Trapped in the Sea of Stars” (1975), “Belsen Express” (1975), “Scream Wolf” (1961), “The Mechanical Bride” (1954)

Initial Thoughts: Three Fritz Leiber short stories appeared on my favorite 20 short fictions I read in 2022. The only other author to appear three times in the favorite read categories was Vonda N. McIntyre. And I plan on continuing my explorations of his work in 2023.

For cover art posts consult the INDEX

For book reviews consult the INDEX

For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX

#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order. Judge me, because who doesn’t?
“The Parade's Gone By . . . “ by #KevinBrownlow
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by #DanaStevens
Tales of the City by #ArmisteadMaupin
The Cider House Rules by #JohnIrving
Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited... by #MollyHaskell
The Fire Next Time by #JamesBaldwin
Shatterday by #HarlanEllison

And here are the titans of science fiction in this video: #robertheinlein #isaacasimov #octaviabutler #harlanellison #samueldelany #ursulaleguin #raybradbury #hugogernsback #arthurcclarke #judithmerril #julesverne #annemccaffrey #philipkdick #hgwells #maryshelley https://youtu.be/Z6_CfYtn4pA