Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between and The col. Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection/5. Even before I opened it, I knew I could say that Deathbird Stories is clearly Ellison’s most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. If you’re carrying around the original Harper Row, it probably looks to the casual passerby like a cheap thriller, despite the Dillons’ always-gorgeous cover art. Collects nineteen stories. Includes the Hugo Award winning stories "The Deathbird" () and "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans " (). "Extravagant, highly emotional, sometimes shrill, this has some claim to being Ellison's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to .
Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology. This collects many of Ellison's finest stories-most notably the titular "The Deathbird." The book's original and full title is Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods. Knowing Harlan Ellison to be "a practicing atheist," I was somewhat skeptical about what this book would be. COMMENTARY. T his may be the first Harlan Ellison book I ever read. For that reason alone, it would be significant to me. I cannot be certain, because that was a quarter century ago, in , and I don't remember much about that year except for the two-mile I ran and, on April 14, the first kiss with a girl who would become my first love and lifelong friend.
"The Deathbird" was originally published in the March issue of FSF, illustrated by Leo Diane Dillon. "The Deathbird" is a novelette by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette [1] and Locus Award for Best Short Story. Deathbird Stories. by Harlan Ellison (signed). Published by Easton Press. Bound in a black leather, the book has a satin book marker, acid-free paper, symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges. Even before I opened it, I knew I could say that Deathbird Stories is clearly Ellison’s most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. If you’re carrying around the original Harper Row, it probably looks to the casual passerby like a cheap thriller, despite the Dillons’ always-gorgeous cover art.
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