Repent Harlequin Said The Ticktockman

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504038249

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A science fiction classic about an antiestablishment rebel set on overthrowing the totalitarian society of the future. One of science fiction’s most antiestablishment authors rails against the accepted order while questioning blind obedience to the state in this unique pairing of short story and essay. “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” is set in a dystopian future society in which time is regulated by a heavy bureaucratic hand known as the Ticktockman. The rebellious Everett C. Marm flouts convention, masquerading as the anarchic Harlequin, disrupting the precise schedule with bullhorns and jellybeans in a world where being late is nothing short of a crime. But when his love, Pretty Alice, betrays Everett out of a desire to return to the punctuality to which she is programmed, he is forced to face the Ticktockman and his gauntlet of consequences. The bonus essay included in this volume, “Stealing Tomorrow,” is a hard-to-find Harlan Ellison masterwork, an exploration of the rebellious nature of the writer’s soul. Waxing poetic on humankind’s intellectual capabilities versus its emotional shortcomings, the author depicts an inner self that guides his words against the established bureaucracies, assuring us that the intent of his soul is to “come lumbering into town on a pink-and-yellow elephant, fast as Pegasus, and throw down on the established order.” Winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” has become one of the most reprinted short stories in the English language. Fans of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World will delight in this antiestablishment vision of a Big Brother society and the rebel determined to take it down. The perfect complement, “Stealing Tomorrow” is a hidden gem that reinforces Ellison’s belief in humankind’s inner nobility and the necessity to buck totalitarian forces that hamper our steady evolution.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Conformity
ISBN : 1887424369

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison Pdf

In a society that has surrendered personal freedom for the "safety " of conformity and punctuality, the perpetually late Harlequin is the ultimate rebel.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604445

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Paingod by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Eight timeless tales from the master of speculative fiction, featuring the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning story “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman.” Robert Heinlein says, “This book is raw corn liquor—you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor.” Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories. They not only knock you down . . . they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth. Touching, gentle, and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Ace
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : PSU:000012778270

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The Illustrated Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : UOM:39015003346064

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Alone Against Tomorrow by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Science fiction-noveller.

Author : Chad A. Haag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1094801186

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Being and Oil by Chad A. Haag Pdf

In the first ever book-length manifesto of Peak Oil Philosophy, Chad Haag argues that the transition to Fossil Fuel Modernity replaced the herds of megafauna of the Hunter Gatherer Worldview and the cyclically-harvested grain of the Agrarian Worldview with a single immensely powerful but quickly vanishing substance: oil. Everything we do is a euphemism for burning vast amounts of fossil fuels. Haag provides an original hierarchy of transcendental standards of meaning to reveal the extent to which our mythologies, systems, counter sense objects, and deep memes are just so many incomplete revelations of our Phenomenological awareness of petroleum. But as the globe already hit Peak Oil in 2005 and has been on the downward slope of depletion ever since, these higher order meanings have begun to collapse into falsity. Oil's peculiar role in sustaining systems of meaning precisely through imposing a hard physical limit to existence therefore requires a novel Ontology of Limitation. Haag reawakens the Heideggerian quest for Being by suggesting that even the subject itself must be understood as a limitation sustained through the limitation of, in our era, fossil fuels. Haag introduces a new table of 15 modes of truth to explicate how Peak Oil defies a simple binary of truth and falsity, given that even truth under Fossil Fuels is just a euphemism for oil's presence. Combining the Peak Oil insights of John Michael Greer and the anti-technological theories of Ted Kaczynski with the philosophical rigor of Heidegger, Aristotle, Zizek, Plato, Husserl, Descartes, and Jordan Peterson, Haag crafts a truly unique response to the challenge of joining Peak Oil and Philosophy.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410356512

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A Study Guide for "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Harlan Ellison's "''Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the Ticktockman," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Harlan Ellison,Steranko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:11452127

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison,Steranko Pdf

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604322

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Slippage by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Twenty-one works from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth,” including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx (Publishers Weekly). Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award–nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece, surrounded by screenplays, an introduction by the author, interspersed segments of autobiographical narrative, and such provocatively titled entries as “The Man Who Rowed Columbus Ashore,” “Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You,” “Crazy As a Soup Sandwich,” “Chatting With Anubis,” “The Dragon on the Bookshelf,” (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg), “The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams,” “Pulling Hard Time,” and “Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral.”

Author : Kurt Dinan
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492630159

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Don't Get Caught by Kurt Dinan Pdf

10:00 tonight at the water tower. Tell no one. -Chaos Club When Max receives a mysterious invite from the untraceable, epic prank-pulling Chaos Club, he has to ask: why him? After all, he's Mr. 2.5 GPA, Mr. No Social Life. He's Just Max. And his favorite heist movies have taught him this situation calls for Rule #4: Be suspicious. But it's also his one shot to leave Just Max in the dust... Yeah, not so much. Max and four fellow students-who also received invites-are standing on the newly defaced water tower when campus security "catches" them. Definitely a setup. And this time, Max has had enough. It's time for Rule #7: Always get payback. Let the prank war begin. Oceans 11 meets The Breakfast Club in this entertaining, fast-paced debut filled with pranks and cons that will keep readers on their toes, never sure who's pulling the strings or what's coming next.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781497604261

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Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison Pdf

With a foreword by Stephen King: Provocative and entertaining pieces from the multiple award-winning author. Pure, hundred‐proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four‐part ‘Scenes from the Real World,” an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, that he created for NBC; “Tales from the Mountains of Madness”; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life, sex, violence, and labor relations. With an absolutely killer foreword by Stephen King.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1883398622

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The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. The Essential Ellison, a special limited edition personally signed and numbered by Ellison, contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx."

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604773

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Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.” In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. In “Paingod,” the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include A Boy and His Dog and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology, drugs, gambling, materialism—that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post—and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. Stories include: “Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” “Along the Scenic Route” “On the Downhill Side” “O Ye of Little Faith” “Neon” “Basilisk” “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” “Corpse” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” “The Face of Helene Bournouw” “Bleeding Stones” “At the Mouse Circus” “The Place with No Name” “Paingod” “Ernest and the Machine God” “Rock God” “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W” “The Deathbird”

Author : Mike Friedrich
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0820800895001

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Justice League of America (1960-) #89 by Mike Friedrich Pdf

This story puts you, the reader, in the boots of both our superheroes and super-villains, literally!

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317882

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Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation. Conrad Metcalf has problems. He has a monkey on his back, a rabbit in his waiting room, and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. (Maybe evolution therapy is not such a good idea). He's been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an Oakland urologist. Maybe falling in love with her a little at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, Metcalf finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of the Fickle Muse.