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It took me a while to get to this review for various reasons. First and foremost: I'm busy. Between three jobs, graduate school, and thinking about that wonderful thing people call 'the future' hasn't left me as much time as I'd like for my little rantings and ravings about literature. But, I'm here now, let's jump in.
This book, on a conceptual level, is expertly written. Harlan Ellison knows how to tell a story with a brilliant concept and work it out to some wonderful and at times even surpris ...more
This book, on a conceptual level, is expertly written. Harlan Ellison knows how to tell a story with a brilliant concept and work it out to some wonderful and at times even surpris ...more

The best way to describe Harlan Ellison's prose would be "lyrical." This short collection of stories varies from from a hopeless, post-apocalyptic landscape to the a contemporary California in an emotional spiral after his divorce. Just describing the plot likely won't hook you. It's Ellison's words that do all the heavy lifting in his stories. This collection of stories was published in the late 1960s and Ellison's views on women tend to reflect this. But this shouldn't let it deter you from re
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