He also received Hugos for I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) and for The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968). His social concerns were reflected in stories such as “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman (1965), about civil disobedience in a world of rigid conformity, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. I take the received world and I reflect it back through the lens of fantasy, turned slightly so you get a different portrait.”Įllison was anti-Vietnam, an advocate of gun control and a supporter of human rights organisations. In 1996 he said: “What I write is hyperactive magic realism. He was given lifetime achievement prizes by the World Fantasy awards and the Horror Writers Association, and received the Writers Guild of America award four times. He loathed being branded a “science fiction” author, although a tally of more than 40 awards proved that SF fans held him in high regard. His stories could be whimsical and cruel, playful and painful, sentimental and shocking. The Los Angeles Times described him as “the 20th-century Lewis Carroll” JG Ballard thought he was “an aggressive and restless extrovert who conducts life at a shout and his fiction at a scream” Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, called him “the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water”.Įllison, who has died aged 84, wrote 70 books, some 400 short stories, dozens of TV screenplays and more than 1,000 essays, introductions and columns. The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the Worldīonus track, an encore of "Kiss of Fire", here read by Harlan Ellison.To some, Harlan Ellison was the finest short story writer to have emerged from America’s science fiction ghetto in generations. The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World It does not appear to contain the foreword "Approaching Ellison" (1974, Michael Crichton), listed in most TOCs for Approaching Oblivion.
Approaching Oblivion appears to be either the 1985 Bluejay Books edition, or the 1989 Nelson Doubleday reprint of the same. Contains the two short story collections The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Approaching Oblivion, followed by a bonus track of the author introducing and reading "Kiss of Fire".
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