Lori
I had heard the name Harlan Ellison but knew nothing about him. I don’t even have a clue where I heard it from. In any case, I am happy that a faint remembrance of this name made me pick up the book. I love the somewhat out their stories that are tinged with a sort of manic humour.
Some of these stories are instant classics to me now. I will say that the stories are defiantly dated but not so much as to make them unreadable. The way the author writes makes me think of an uncle who’s had a little too much to drink and is telling you a story. He’s a little loud and slightly politically incorrect, but they’re fun to hear anyway.
A few standouts to me were I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Jeffty Is Five, Mefisto in Onyx, Paladin of the Last Hour, and Shatterday.
I had heard the name Harlan Ellison but knew nothing about him. I don’t even have a clue where I heard it from. In any case, I am happy that a faint remembrance of this name made me pick up the book. I love the somewhat out their stories that are tinged with a sort of manic humour.
Some of these stories are instant classics to me now. I will say that the stories are defiantly dated but not so much as to make them unreadable. The way the author writes makes me think of an uncle who’s had a little too much to drink and is telling you a story. He’s a little loud and slightly politically incorrect, but they’re fun to hear anyway.
A few standouts to me were I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Jeffty Is Five, Mefisto in Onyx, Paladin of the Last Hour, and Shatterday.