Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
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Deathbird Stories

Author: Harlan Ellison

Narrator: Luis Moreno, Harlan Ellison

Unabridged: 16 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

For more than three decades this singular collection of stories in which the New Gods of freeways and slot
machines, internal combustion deities and evil so enormous that it swallows the streets in shadow has compelled the
attention of not only readers of imaginative bent, but the praise of hard-line literary critics. One cannot codify modern
literature of the fantastic without including a reference or selection from this dark book of godly and troubling stories
that will not be ignored.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Althea on July 31, 2015

At first, I was slightly put off by some of the luridly poetic language of this story, but as it went on, it grew on me. Clearly a response to the Vietnam War, this story is pretty much an all-around indictment of war, the treatment of prisoners of war, the treatment of returning veterans, the behav......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on May 09, 2018

When I was in high school, this book was banned from our library. So naturally I made a pilgrimage to the public library, checked it out, read it, and basically this is the book that made me want to be a writer. Because it was the first time I realized books had the power to make parents lose their......more

Goodreads review by John on October 11, 2016

I've read a few of these stories before, but never like this. No, every story in this book is meant to be read this way, not just a story here and there over the years. Read 'em all back to back, start to finish. (He warns you not to do that in the intro, but he's just goading you to do it.) It's a......more