Paingod and Other Delusions
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor--you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not ...   Details   Buy now!

Shatterday
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the ...   Details   Buy now!

Spider Kiss (2008 Edition)
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three ...   Details   Buy now!

Gentleman Junkie
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  The original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison.    Details   Buy now!

Ellison Wonderland
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition. This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a writer ...   Details   Buy now!

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison
[Fantasy]  First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison ...   Details   Buy now!

Memos From Purgatory
by Harlan Ellison
[General Nonfiction]  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. ...   Details   Buy now!

Web of the City
by Harlan Ellison
[Mainstream]  Harlan Ellison was awarded an honorary degree from UCLA for the excellence of his imaginative writings. Some smart-ass might even call him "Dr." Ellison. But only once. Because even though Ellison has come a long way since he started writing in the Fifties, he's still the street fighter who assumed ...   Details   Buy now!

A Cry For Self-Help
by Jaqueline Girdner
[Mystery/Crime]  Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this eighth mystery in the series. ("A cultural anthropologist of the laughing gas variety."--Don Herron, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN.) In A CRY FOR SELF-HELP, Kate Jasper and her sweetie take the plunge and join a Wedding Ritual Class, ...   Details   Buy now!

Ratha's Courage [Fifth Book of the Named]
by Clare Bell
[Fantasy]  "Screeching in pain and terror, the rogues backed off, but they didn't flee like the Un-Named raiders did. Something seemed to force them back into the fray, making them ignore their fright and their agony to attack again. The flame-bearers' attack faltered as eyes met eyes and the enemy's ability ...   Details   Buy now!

Adjusted To Death
by Jaqueline Girdner
[Mystery/Crime]  Meet Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth. ("She's smart, funny, vulnerable, and unpretentious."--Marilyn Wallace, editor of the SISTERS IN CRIME series.) In this first Kate Jasper mystery, Kate visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, but instead finds a dead man on one of the ...   Details   Buy now!