Ellison Wonderland, Harlan Ellison
Ellison Wonderland, Harlan Ellison
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Ellison Wonderland

Author: Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski

Narrator: Harlan Ellison, Josh Olson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Alex Hyde-White, Jim Meskimen, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, various narrators, Stu Levin

Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 05/13/2015


Synopsis

Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All the Sounds of Fear," "The Sky Is Burning," "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman," and "In Lonely Lands." Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than fifty years later.

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) wrote or edited 75 books and more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns as well as two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures. He won the Hugo award nine times, the Nebula award four times, the Bram Stoker award six times (including The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer’s union.

About J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski is a legendary American writer and television producer—best known as the author of The Complete Guide to Scriptwriting, as the creator and showrunner for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and, from 2001 to 2007, the writer for the long-running Marvel comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills.

About Alex Hyde-White

Alex Hyde-White is an actor and a producer of two films and hundreds of audiobooks thru his label Punch Audio.

About Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen is an American comedian and actor, best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and his extensive voice acting and television work. Books he has narrated include the Calendar Mysteries series by Ron Roy, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, by Josh Berk, and The Deleted E-Mails of Hillary Clinton by John Moe.

About Arthur Morey

Arthur Morey has acted in a number of productions, both Off-Broadway in New York and Off-Loop in Chicago. He’s won several Earphones Awards and has been repeatedly listed by AudioFile Magazine as a Best Voice over the years.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an avid audiobook narrator, receiving numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. He is also a Grammy-winning audiobook producer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 18, 2021

A collection of Ellison’s early shorts. It is mostly science fiction but also a little humor, a little horror, and a whole lot of Wow. It would have been 5 stars but my edition had a 100+ page introduction, roughly one third of the book, that was essentially Ellison tooting his own horn over and ove......more

Goodreads review by Scott on September 01, 2024

A definite mixed bag of stories from early in Harlan Ellison's career to the early-'60s (when the book was originally published), "Ellison Wonderland" is vintage Ellison. The stories range from absolutely silly and nonsensical ("Gnomebody") to beautiful and perfect exemplars of great science fiction......more

Goodreads review by Gary on January 10, 2021

This is a collection of early Harlan Ellison’s short stories written in the late 50s and early 60s - first released in 1962. Apparently this is a popular enough collection to warrant re-releasing several times... 1974, 1979, 1984, 2015. Each with their own introduction... all of which included in th......more

Goodreads review by Ira on March 26, 2025

Check out my full, spoiler free, video review HERE. These are some of Ellison’s earliest genre short stories, mostly science fiction or science fiction adjacent. Ellison had a mastery of the English language and really knew how to craft a short story. The latest edition of this book has a 45,000 wor......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 09, 2018

A good early collection of Ellison's best genre fiction, mostly from the late '50s. The stories come from the time when Ellison was moving from magazine work and setting his sights on a more lucrative and literary career. There's an unchecked enthusiasm and good humor here that came to the fore less......more