Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the
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Cover of Vintage edition.
Harlan Jay Ellison was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published works include more th
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…hallucinatory, Joycean tour-de-force". Theodore Sturgeon called it "the very best ever to come out of the science fiction field". By contrast, Harlan Ellison hated the novel. When the book appeared, Ellison wrote: "I must be honest. I gave up after 361 pages. I could not permit myself to be gulled or bored…
Ellison's 1957 novella "The Savage Swarm", cover-featured in Amazing Stories, was collected under the author's preferred title, "The Air from the Past", in Coffin Nails (2016).
A few months later, another Ellison novella, "The Steel Napoleon", also took the cover of Amazing. It, too, was collected in Coffin Nails (2016).
Another Coffin Nails (2016) novella, "Satan Is My Ally", was the cover story on the May 1957 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction. It also appeared in Possibly Impossible (2021).