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

The Deadly Streets (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Getting in the Wind (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sex Gang (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Children of the Streets / The Juvies (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gentleman Junkie (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ellison Wonderland (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paingod and Other Delusions (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From the Land of Fear (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Over the Edge (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time of the Eye (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alone Against Tomorrow (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All the Sounds of Fear (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Approaching Oblivion (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Doors, No Windows (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deathbird Stories (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Illustrated Harlan Ellison (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strange Wine (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shatterday (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stalking the Nightmare (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Essential Ellison (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mefisto in Onyx (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night and the Enemy (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Angry Candy (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Footsteps (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slippage (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Troublemakers (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pulling a Train (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rough Beasts (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (With: Jason Davis) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Top of the Volcano (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Can & Can'tankerous (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ephemeral Ellison (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ellison Treatment (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dimensions of Harlan Ellison (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Greatest Hits (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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 (By: Gerard Jones) (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 (By: David Gerrold) (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All Our Yesterdays (By: Jean Lissette Aroeste) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Taste of Armageddon (By: Robert Hamner,Gene L. Coon) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Metamorphosis (By: Gene L. Coon) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Galileo 7 (By: Oliver Crawford,S. Bar-David) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Piece of the Action (By: Gene L. Coon,David P. Harmon) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Day of the Dove (By: Jerome Bixby) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Amok Time (By: Theodore Sturgeon) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (By: Alan Dean Foster,Harold Livingston,Richard J. Anobile) (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (By: Richard J. Anobile) (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 (By: Peter Weston) (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Andromeda 3 (By: Gino d'Achille,Peter Weston) (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.

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