Shatterday

ISBN: 1892391481

Author: Ellison, Harlan

Condition: Used

Shatterday is a revolutionary classic from Harlan Ellison, science fictions most controversial author. This collection of sixteen visionary stories remains as scathing and influential today as when it was initially published. Read as fanatically by intellectuals as by college students, these category-defying stories combine ironic humor, sardonic social criticism, and intense self-revelation; from Jeffty Is Five, the tragedy of an innocent child wrenched out of an idyllic past, to humanitys encounter with dangerously seductive aliens in Hows the Night Life on Cissalda?, culminating in Shatterday, the dark allegory of an identity-stealing doppelganger replacing his inferior twin. Back in print for the first time since its stunning debut in the early 1980s, this incendiary collection reestablishes its legendary author at the cutting-edge of the short-story form.