Slippage

It is a disappointment that while authors like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark and Robert A. Heinlein have such immediate renown and recognition, the name Harlan Ellison does not often get the respect it deserves. Asimov and company were true visionaries, but Ellison was just a few too many years late......more

Slippage is another great Harlan Ellison volume of short stories. It includes the great novella, Mefisto in Onyx, The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore, Anywhere but here, With Anyone But You, and Jane Doe 112. I like his nearly running theme of an entity that has many forms, living hundreds......more

Published in 1997, Slippage was the first collection of new fiction from Harlan Ellison in nearly a decade, after the seminal Angry Candy in 1988. (OK, I am fudging just a bit. Technically, there was Mind Fields, which contained 33 short-short stories inspired by the art of Jacek Yerka. However, the......more

Overall, a solid collection of stories. This was my first real introduction to Ellison's writing, and in general he didn't disappoint. I appreciated the erudition involved in the creation of the stories, as many of them referenced historical figures, mythology, other literature, etc, which added a l......more