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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Description: In the far future, time is considered so precious that it's a criminal offense to waste it. The dreaded Ticktockman (he hates it when people call him that) enforces the law. But then the man known only as The Harlequin came into the picture. One of Ellison's most acclaimed works, this story won both the Hugo and Nebula when it was published. It's part satire, part allegory, part warning, and all Ellison.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, 1965 Galaxy
MemoWare PDA Bookstore Release Date: October 2000
 
640 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [29 KB], ePub (EPUB) [26 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [14 KB], Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [69 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [15 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [37 KB], Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [87 KB], hiebook (KML) [66 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [45 KB], iSilo (PDB) [13 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [16 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [44 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 4433
Reading time: 12-17 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Harlan Ellison is the finest short story writer on the planet. No one I've read can pack such emotion in such a short space. He's a master of the form. And "Repent" is one of his masterpieces. The Ticktockman of the title is a timekeeper -- a person who keeps society rolling along on it's ridiculously tight schedule. The Harlequin is a clown -- one of the folks who can't conform to such schedules. It is a parable of our of worship of the clock, more relevent now as it was when it was first published in 1965. -Scott Danielson, Fictionwise Recommender
Classic Ellison -- what more need be said? If you haven't read it already, you're in for a treat! -Robert J. Sawyer, Fictionwise Recommender
Just about given up on literature? No kidding. Face it: household names and not so household names, a couple-a-newbies and not so newbies in an assiduously horded holiday reading can disappoint. More so or especially under chimera of a six pack and a vibrant sizzler frothed with gas beads straight from Epernay. So there I was Down Under, camped inside a summer scorcher, hanging on a thread and pretty close to snapping. I badly needed some read. And not just a read -- something of conviction. Something I could seriously, flawlessly, blindly trust. That something was Harlan Ellison, a man who toys with language. "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman is written with such philosophy, it refreshes, it awes. -Eugen Bacon, Fictionwise Recommender
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