New Releases by Harlan Ellison

Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn''t know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn''s dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won''t be able to ignore or forget. "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

Mind Fields was originally conceived as a collection of Jacek Yerka''s paintings, but when Harlan Ellison was approached to write the introduction, he was so overcome that instead he penned a short story for each piece. The result of this synergistic melding of talents, Mind Fields shows two masters at their best. Each of the nearly three dozen stories in this volume is completely unlike any of the others, and together they contain a rich panoply of pathos, humor, and wonder. Produced in a beautiful cloth edition worthy of the art within, Mind Fields is a unique item and a must for any Ellison fan.

In 1977, film producers approached Harlan Ellison with a view to producing a screenplay based on Asimov''s story-cycle, ''I, Robot''. The screenplay that Ellison produced is here presented in book format and brought to life by the illustrations of Mark Zug.

When he''s down, kick for the head and groin. Avoid cops. Play it cool There aren''t many rules in the primer for gang kids, but they all count. They''re all easily understood because they use a simple and sound philosophy it''s a stinking life, so get your kicks while you can. The gang is home, take what you want, tell them nothing and don''t get caught. Two gangs of juvenile delinquents run riot in New York City. They constantly try to outdo each other with their clothes, weapons, language and lack of morals. They are not just kids playing at war they mean business. The only person who can infiltrate the gang is someone they can trust, someone like themselves. Someone who knows how to handle a knife and a gun

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison''s classic stories--chosen by the author--that will introduce new readers to a writer described by the New York Times as having the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind.

"But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison''s first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."".

Incomparable Harlan Ellison''s stories and essays have been at the cutting edge of contemporary American Literature for over 40 years, but he stubbornly refuses to abandon the use of a manual typewriter. He''s involved in every medium from television drama to comic books, and his works are translated into 26 languages Uncontrollable In May 1996, While Wolf announced what remains its most ambitious publishing program of a single author: 20 volumes of the collected works from the man whom The Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers". The third volume of this series contains a major collection of Ellison''s confrontational essays and the result of a movie director''s request for a budgetless movie script. Both books were completely revised, updated and expanded for the hardcover publication, and this trade-paperback edition has been re-edited.

Harlan Ellison is surely one of the most creative thinkers of our time -- his stories of the fantastic have captured the imaginations of millions of people over the last four decades. In this trade paperback, some of the comics industry''s wildest and most original talents adapt Ellison''s greatest stories to the comic-book format.

33 top science fiction writers examine the dark side of human nature and the inner workings of the mind.

The final act of Harlan Ellison''s Hugo and WGA Award-winning Star Trek teleplay! Is James T. Kirk willing to sacrifice the woman he loves, to save the universe as he knows it?! You may have seen the episode, but you only think you know how it ends! From the mind of literary legend Harlan Ellison!