Greatest Hits, Harlan Ellison
Greatest Hits, Harlan Ellison
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Synopsis

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winnerHarlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time. Featuring these stories and many more: “‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” - Hugo Award winner“Jeffty Is Five” - British Fantasy Award winner“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” - Edgar Allan Poe Award winnerIncludes two bonus stories: “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin”

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) is a legend of the SFF, horror, and speculative fiction genres. His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Ellison won numerous awards, including multiple Hugos, Nebulas, and Edgars.

About J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author who has written hundreds of hours of television, major motion pictures, and graphic novels. He is the widely acclaimed creator of Babylon 5, cocreator of Netflix’s Sense8, and writer for Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, which was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay. His other awards include two Hugo Awards, the SFWA Ray Bradbury Award, the Eisner Award, the American Cinema Foundation E Pluribus Unum Award, the Indie Book Award, the GLAAD Media Award, the Eagle Award, two Emmy Awards, and the SDCC Icon Award. The author of Together We Will Go, Becoming Superman, and Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer, Straczynski lives in California.

About Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in modern comics, and he has also penned many books for readers of all ages, including American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and M Is for Magic. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living postmodern writers and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.

About Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw writes horror, press releases, video games, and articles about video games and tabletop RPGs. These are not necessarily unrelated items. Her work can be found in professional short story magazines such as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny, and the scientific journal Nature.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.

About Tim Lounibos

Tim Lounibos is a mixed-race Asian American actor and voiceover artist. With over twenty years of experience, he has performed for film, TV, commercials, animated voice over, audiobook narration, and theatre. The co-founder and co-artistic director of the acclaimed Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, he has also worked as the development manager for aMedia inc., the producer of Los Angeles’s Ovation Awards, the producer of the Ammy Awards, and the business administrator for East West Players.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick has won more than sixty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several prestigious Audie Awards and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.

About Steven Jay Cohen

Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, kids, and too many pets to mention.

About Robert Fass

Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has earned multiple Earphones Awards and been named in AudioFile magazine’s list of the year’s best narrations for six years.

About Neil Hellegers

Neil Hellegers is a narrator, actor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, son, and orange mutt. His voice work can be heard during various commercials, sundry video games, and in numerous audiobooks. Neil has appeared in films, TV shows, and commercials, and has performed and taught Shakespeare to students of all ages. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in theater arts and psychology, and a MFA in acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory.

About Dion Graham

Dion Graham is an Audie Award–winning narrator and was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. He is also a critically acclaimed actor who has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series, including HBO’s The Wire.

About Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and multiaward–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year. He was named by Booklist as winner of their 2023 Voice of Choice Award, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in A Murder at the End of the World, The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

About Angelo Di Loreto

Angelo Di Loreto is an experienced audiobook narrator, pianist, composer, and actor as well as a three-time ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award winner. The narrator of over sixty audiobooks, he has self-produced more than ten full-length titles.


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Quotes

“This compendium of Harlan Ellison’s incredible life and work…is a highlight reel of his award-winning stories and more.” Barnes&Noble.com

“Narrators bring some of Harlan Ellison’s short stories to life…Each narrator provides their own interpretation of a story…[and] Ellison himself delivers several of the stories…Of particular note are Dion Graham’s narration of ‘From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet’ and Stefan Rudnicki’s interpretation of ‘All the Lies That Are My Life.’” AudioFile

“A major figure in twentieth-century science fiction…His short stories, some of which provided the basis for episodes of The Twilight Zone, ‘ripped my mind open and showed me what the possibilities of fiction were,’ Neil Gaiman writes in the foreword to this new collection of Ellison’s best-known work.” New York Times Book Review

“He was one of the greatest and most influential science fiction writers alive…Ellison brought a literary sensibility to sci-fi at a time when the entire establishment was allergic to any notion of art…What he was was a legend.” NPR, praise for the author


Awards

  • New York Times Book Review pick
  • #1 Amazon bestseller