Order of Harlan Ellison Books
Harlan Ellison was an American author who was best known for writing his brand of New Wave speculative fiction. In his career, he had more than 1700 works published in a variety of forms from short stories to screenplays to comic books.
He may be best known for writing a very popular Star Trek episode called “The City on the Edge of Forever”. He also won eight Hugo awards in his lifetime as well as four Nebula awards, five Bram Stoker awards, and two Edgar Awards. He earned numerous Lifetime Achievement awards and even was nominated for a Grammy award later in his life.
Publication Order of Vic and Blood Books
Vic and Blood | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blood's a Rover | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Web of the City | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Man with 9 Lives | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Touch of Infinity | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Spider Kiss | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Doomsman | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Phoenix Without Ashes | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Boy and His Dog | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Region Between | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Deathbird | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Jeffty Is Five | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
All the Lies That Are My Life | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine) | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Soft Monkey | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Function of Dream Sleep | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's) | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chatting with Anubis | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Run for the Stars | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Harlan Ellison's Movie | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Plays
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
None of the Above | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers, Vol. 11 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Contains contributions from other creators. |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Thinking Machine | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Memos From Purgatory | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Glass Teat | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Other Glass Teat | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
An Edge in My Voice | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Harlan Ellison's Watching | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Harlan 101 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Working Without a Net | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Brain Movies Books
Brain Movies, Volume 1 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 2 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 3 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 4 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 5 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 6 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 7 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Brain Movies, Volume 8 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Dream Corridor Books
Dream Corridor Special | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dream Corridor Quarterly | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dream Corridor 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dream Corridor 2 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Star Trek Fotonovel Books
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Trouble with Tribbles | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
All Our Yesterdays | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Taste of Armageddon | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Metamorphosis | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Galileo 7 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Piece of the Action | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Day of the Dove | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Amok Time | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Andromeda Books
(with George R.R. Martin, Brian W. Aldiss, Robert Holdstock, Michael G. Coney, Peter Weston)
Andromeda 2 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Andromeda 3 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Partners in Wonder | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Again, Dangerous Visions | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Again, Dangerous Visions 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Six Science Fiction Plays | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Weird Heroes Volume 2 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Andromeda 1 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lone Star Universe | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Study War No More | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chrysalis 1 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 13 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Great Fantasy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Medea | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Dark Void | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
First Annual Collection | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Borderlands 1 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Alien Sex | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Murder Plus | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ultimate Undead | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark Destiny | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ten Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hanukkah Lights of Stories and Narrative About Hanukkah | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Outer Limits, Volume One | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Balm in Gilead - Salves from the Souk of Imagination | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 41 (2007) | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Living Dead | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Season of Wonder | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fear the Abyss | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blood Is Not Enough | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Last Dangerous Visions | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Harlan Ellison Books, You’ll Love…
One of the best collections of Harlan Ellison stories is Shatterday: Stories. This book features a number of interesting science fiction stories including the Hugo and Nebula award-winning story, Jeffty is Five. That story features a five-year-old boy who never ages, stuck living in a past that no longer exists. Antoehr great story features an alien attack on Earth that puts the planet on the brink of Armageddon, but the humans who remain are unable to resist the sexual allure of the alien invaders. The book is filled with thought provoking stories that will leave you thinking.
Another popular collection is Paingod: And Other Delusions. This book has another eight stories from Ellson including the title story, “Paingod”. In this story, a minor deity has the ob of bringing pain to life forms across the universe. This book also includes “Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman” which is one of Ellison’s most famous works. That story follows a man disguised the Harlequin who rebels against the Ticktockman and tries to disrupt his perfectly scheduled society. The story is unique as it begins in the middle, then moves to the beginning, and then goes the end.