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Edgeworks 4: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled & The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Edgeworks 4 Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Author:Harlan Ellison Two a year. In may and October. The collected works of the writer who had this said about him by a reviewer in the Barnes & Noble magazine Explorations: — "I've said it before: Harlan Ellison is the greatest living short story writer we've got! I'm not just making an off-the-cuff statement--his prose hits you like a baseball bat in the back." — Tw... more »o a year, Edgeworks volumes, each a huge publication containing not one but two separate books. Collections of stories, novels, books of essays, screenplays, nonfiction, and commentary...and that makes four Ellison treasures available every year.
Here is Volume 4. It contains what may be Ellison's two best collections of fiction, plus the new foreword by Neil Gaiman. Start with Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled, his first collection of mainstream fiction, unavailable in any edition since 1983. It was Harlan Ellison's first hardcover collection, back in 1968. Sold for $5.95 in a Trident Press edition. According to recent catalogues, if you were to seek a decent copy of Love Ain't Nothing, with a dust jacket, from...oh, say, one of the three top antiquarian book dealers in the genre...Currey, Levin, or Mossberg, they'd tap you for about $250. But here you have every word of that strong contemporary collection (minus stories already included in some other Edgeworks volume), plus two never before collected pieces, a short story called "Passport" and a brilliant teleplay called "Moonlighting" (that has nothing to do with Bruce Willis or Cybill Shepherd). And you can easily tell where the first book ends and the second book begins, because there's a thick red divider. Book two is The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World. Is it good? Well, the title story won a Hugo award; "A Boy and His Dog" not only won a Nebula, but it was made into one helluva movie starring Don Johnson and a dog who should have won an Oscar. A dozen killer stories, each one revised and corrected for the most discerning reader. That's you, kiddo.« less