Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison
Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison
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Spider Kiss

Author: Harlan Ellison

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 08/04/2015

Synopsis

From one of the most highly celebrated and dynamic American writers of our time, comes Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison’s electrifying novel of the early years of rock and roll.If you think the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell.

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) wrote and edited more than 120 books and more than 1,700 stories, essays, and articles, as well as dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He won the Hugo award nine times, the Nebula award three 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. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin’s motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll’s House.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

“There are those people in this world who are born for evil. They never bring any real happiness to anyone. They can only cause misery, heartache, and trouble. The Hitlers, the Capones, the little people with the touch of rot about them. Everyone knows someone like that, but few of them have any ran......more

Goodreads review by Marvin

One of the best novels written about Rock n' Roll. Written pre-Beatles, and one of Ellison's earlier novels, the plot centers around a Presley/Holly type performer and is full of cynical looks at the music business. The plot and theme has an eerie resemblance to the film, A Face in the Crowd which a......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Cat

60 years ahead of its time. Harlan is gone and he's still relevant and kicking my ass across the floor.......more

Goodreads review by Craig

Written before rock'n'roll as we have come to know it even existed, pre-British invasion when Elvis was a young star of rockabilly, this is Ellison's only non-sf novel other than the crime novel Web of the City. It examines the lure of celebrity and the magic of the music with an unforgiving and una......more

Quotes

"[Ellison has] the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author

“One of the great living American short-story writers.” Washington Post, praise for the author

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