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Summary: Ellison's stories are in a class all their own
Review: The short fiction of Harlan Ellison defies labels. Mixing tropes from various genres and investing them with a healthy dose of his own larger than life personality, Ellison creates fictions unlike anything else in the marketplace today. Often compared with the works of Jorge Luis Borges or Lewis Carroll, his writing has been praised to the heavens by people such as Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand and Dorothy Parker. "Slippage," his latest batch of stories, will only elevate that praise. ...his prose can be hard-boiled, whimsical (depending on the story), or as lyrical as a poem...Passionate, thought-provoking, and always entertaining, Ellison's stories are in a class all their own. (Copyright 1997), "San Antonio Express-News.
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Summary: No Slip-Ups in SLIPPAGE...
Review: This book should be read immediately and at least three times so that you-will-get-it. Okay?It should also be given a rating of 15, instead of 5, for excellence, of course. And if this were a class at some stuffy University, the book might be sold like this... This is your class assignment for the semester: Go and pick up a copy of SLIPPAGE at the bookstore and read Chapters 1 through The End. You will be tested on each chapter throughout the remainder of your lives. It's too bad, though, that you will also be ENJOYING yourselves while learning to be better human beings, but that's Professor Ellison's fault not ours. If it were up to the school, we'd make sure that you felt inadequate and guilty while reading this. Unfortunately, reading SLIPPAGE is known to elevate your mood to the point where you will actually feel good about yourself and maybe even start respecting yourself a little bit better. Too bad, dumb student ... too bad....
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Summary: Intriguing, will entertain absolutely everyone!
Review: Well, what can I say about this book. It's Uncle Harlan at his best. Every story grabs you with it's intense narrative and demands that you will read it, NOW! I myself cannot praise "Mephisto In Onyx" enough. At the end I was laughing, not only with mirth but also with shock. Also Ellison's desciption of Glasgow Central Station in "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" is the best I have ever seen or heard. I should know I work there. So if there are any doubts in your mind, take it from me, buy this book if only for these two stories, but be prepared to be blown away by the rest.
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Summary: Intriguing, will entertain absolutely everyone!
Review: Well, what can I say about this book. It's Uncle Harlan at his best. Every story grabs you with it's intense narrative and demands that you will read it, NOW! I myself cannot praise "Mephisto In Onyx" enough. At the end I was laughing, not only with mirth but also with shock. Also Ellison's desciption of Glasgow Central Station in "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" is the best I have ever seen or heard. I should know I work there. So if there are any doubts in your mind, take it from me, buy this book if only for these two stories, but be prepared to be blown away by the rest.
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Summary: Classic Ellison work here, at the top of his form.
Review: Which says a lot. Some of the stories in this collection are just tremendous. Mefisto In Onyx, a novella rather than a short story, is one of the most amazing stories I've read, with a satisfying and powerful ending. Ellison does his whole last sentence climax thing, and it works beautifully. This book is worth getting for any fan of Ellison or science fiction.
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