Deathbird Stories - by Harlan Ellison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."</i> --Robert Heinlein, 1973 A masterwork of myth and terror, <i>Deathbird Stories</i> collects nineteen of Harlan Ellison's best stories written over the course of a decade. In it, ancient gods fade as modern society creates new deities to worship--gods of technology, drugs, gambling. Revolutionary when first published, the short stories contained here have won multiple honors, including the prestigious Hugo and British Science Fiction Awards. They have inspired a generation of readers and other authors to reexamine blind faith and fight against crumbling institutions. Stark and often angry, this collection strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition. After all, the gods we invent contain all too much of their inventors. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism--"fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling" (<i>The New York Times</i>).</b> <p/> As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award-winning novelette, "The Deathbird." <p/> In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs," an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. <p/> In "Paingod," the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. <p/><i>Deathbird Stories</i> collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include <i>A Boy and His Dog</i> and <i>I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream</i>--and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, 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, drugs, gambling, materialism--that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. <p/> In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called "one of the great living American short story writers" by the <i>Washington Post</i>--and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. <p/> Stories include: <br> "Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars" <br> "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" <br> "Along the Scenic Route" <br> "On the Downhill Side" <br> "O Ye of Little Faith" <br> "Neon" <br> "Basilisk" <br> "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" <br> "Corpse" <br> "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" <br> "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer" <br> "The Face of Helene Bournouw" <br> "Bleeding Stones" <br> "At the Mouse Circus" <br> "The Place with No Name" <br> "Paingod" <br> "Ernest and the Machine God" <br> "Rock God" <br> "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" <br> "The Deathbird"<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Harlan Ellison (1934-2018), in a career spanning more than fifty years, wrote or edited one hundred fourteen books; more than seventeen hundred stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns; two dozen teleplays; and a dozen motion pictures. He won the Hugo Award eight and a half times (shared once); the Nebula Award three times; the Bram Stoker Award, presented by the Horror Writers Association, five times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996); the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice; the Georges Melies Fantasy Film Award twice; and two Audie Awards (for the best in audio recordings); and he was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writers' union. He was presented with the first Living Legend Award by the International Horror Critics at the 1995 World Horror Convention. Ellison is the only author in Hollywood ever to win the Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Teleplay (solo work) four times, most recently for "Paladin of the Lost Hour," his <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode that was Danny Kaye's final role, in 1987. In 2006, Ellison was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. <i>Dreams with Sharp Teeth</i>, the documentary chronicling his life and works, was released on DVD in May 2009. He passed away in 2018 at the age of eighty-four. <br>
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