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...available for pre-order!
Just got the heads-up email:
Wow...How many chances are there to get a personalized book from Harlan?! Very cool...
ETA: What Harlan had to say about them:
Jan
Just got the heads-up email:
NONE OF THE ABOVE is Ellison's 238-page, unproduced screenplay adaptation of Norman Spinrad's Hugo Award-nominated novel BUG JACK BARRON that was to have been directed by Costa-Gavras (Z) for Universal Pictures in the early 1980s. Respected film critic and historian Leonard Maltin has written an insightful introduction with input from Ellison on why the film has never been made.
ROUGH BEASTS assembles seventeen never-before-collected pulp stories from the 1950s, including the Stephen King-lauded "Invulnerable," which eluded collection despite a prominent mention 30 years ago in STALKING THE NIGHTMARE. Every story has been revised by the author specifically for this collection.
The two-book set will be available for pre-order only at HarlanBooks.com starting at 10am Pacific Time on 1 November 2012. Both books are 7.5" by 9.25" paperbacks. ROUGH BEASTS (running 200 pages) will be signed by Ellison.
Any two-book sets ordered through 6 November 2012 may have the signature on ROUGH BEASTS personalized upon request.
The set will sell for $75. Books are expected to begin shipping by mid-November, after Ellison has completed personalizing the pre-orders.
Any two-book sets ordered through 6 November 2012 may have the signature on ROUGH BEASTS personalized upon request.
The set will sell for $75. Books are expected to begin shipping by mid-November, after Ellison has completed personalizing the pre-orders.
ETA: What Harlan had to say about them:
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- Monday, October 29 2012 15:25:10
THE TWO NEW FIRST EDITIONS HAVE ARRIVED !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZIPPITY-DOO!
More than a bit of a thrill!
I am holding in my tremulous paws the Edgeworks Abbey (harlanbooks.com) first publications ever of ROUGH BEASTS and NONE OF THE ABOVE. Available now. And gorgeous editions they are. ROUGH BEASTS has a wraparound cover by C. Scott Morse, and NONE OF THE ABOVE is the first published version of my politically oh-so-incorrect screenplay based on Norman Spinrad's classic BUG JACK BARRON. (Paul Guay and other Libertarians should find it why they call me the "loose cannon.") The latter features a new, excellent introduction by film critic Leonard Maltin, and the former is 17 stories I wrote "before I got up to speed." Looking back, not a bad commencement for a loooong career. Like opening Imhotep's tomb and finding golden artifacts. Or walking mummies.
I'm pretty well stoked. It's been a while sine I've had any "First Editions" of previously unreleased material, and both of these, the collection and the 270 page screenplay, are seeing their first release.
I mention this, well, in hopes that you find the new entities as wondersome as do I.
Jason Davis cannot be commended vociferously enough.
I needed a smile today, as Sandy rushes down on all my East Coast friends, whose safety is topflung on my list of important things for today. And today is special, as you might have gathered.
Yr. Pal, Harlan
- Monday, October 29 2012 15:25:10
THE TWO NEW FIRST EDITIONS HAVE ARRIVED !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZIPPITY-DOO!
More than a bit of a thrill!
I am holding in my tremulous paws the Edgeworks Abbey (harlanbooks.com) first publications ever of ROUGH BEASTS and NONE OF THE ABOVE. Available now. And gorgeous editions they are. ROUGH BEASTS has a wraparound cover by C. Scott Morse, and NONE OF THE ABOVE is the first published version of my politically oh-so-incorrect screenplay based on Norman Spinrad's classic BUG JACK BARRON. (Paul Guay and other Libertarians should find it why they call me the "loose cannon.") The latter features a new, excellent introduction by film critic Leonard Maltin, and the former is 17 stories I wrote "before I got up to speed." Looking back, not a bad commencement for a loooong career. Like opening Imhotep's tomb and finding golden artifacts. Or walking mummies.
I'm pretty well stoked. It's been a while sine I've had any "First Editions" of previously unreleased material, and both of these, the collection and the 270 page screenplay, are seeing their first release.
I mention this, well, in hopes that you find the new entities as wondersome as do I.
Jason Davis cannot be commended vociferously enough.
I needed a smile today, as Sandy rushes down on all my East Coast friends, whose safety is topflung on my list of important things for today. And today is special, as you might have gathered.
Yr. Pal, Harlan
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