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Harlan Ellison
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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version - which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award.
The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the listener on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe - and his one true love.
This edition makes available the astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?
For a full cast/character list and table of contents, please visit www.SkyboatMedia.com.
©1975 Harlan Ellison. © 1995 by the Kilimanjaro Corporation. Afterwords © 1995 and 2016 by the authors (P)2016 Skyboat Media, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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By: Harlan Ellison, and others
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Stalking the Nightmare and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
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The following books are included: Over the Edge and Stalking the Nightmare.
By: Harlan Ellison
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.
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- By CF on 04-22-23
By: Harlan Ellison
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Slippage
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Luis Moreno
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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With this, his bestselling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying … Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever."
By: Harlan Ellison
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Dangerous Visions
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 33 mins
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A landmark short story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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Pre-Star Trek pre-Star Wars brilliance!
- By Darrell James on 06-29-24
By: Harlan Ellison
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The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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In a post-apocalyptic future, 15-year-old Vic wanders the wasteland with Blood, his genetically-altered telepathic dog, in the Hugo Award-nominated and Nebula Award-winning novella, A Boy and His Dog - the basis of the cult classic film. An intergalactic conspiracy infects the minds of the most powerful politicians in the Republican Party - and only one jolly old elf can save them in “Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.” And in the Hugo Award-winning title story, disparate threads of violence, conflict, and conversation weave an intricate tapestry across worlds and times.
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The formatting for this audio book is very strange
- By Vladie on 05-27-22
By: Harlan Ellison
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Ellison Wonderland
- By: Harlan Ellison, Josh Olson - afterword
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Alex Hyde-White, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All the Sounds of Fear", "The Sky Is Burning", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman", and "In Lonely Lands". Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than 50 years later.
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Your Audio Guide to Ellison Wonderland
- By William on 06-14-15
By: Harlan Ellison, and others
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Stalking the Nightmare and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The following books are included: Over the Edge and Stalking the Nightmare.
By: Harlan Ellison
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.
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- By CF on 04-22-23
By: Harlan Ellison
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Slippage
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Luis Moreno
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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With this, his bestselling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying … Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever."
By: Harlan Ellison
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Greatest Hits
- Herald Classics
- By: Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski - editor
- Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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Harlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.
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Huge fan of the writing but NOT of this production
- By Susannah on 04-23-24
By: Harlan Ellison, and others
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Deathbird Stories
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection. Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974.
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wonderful and brilliantly written
- By Anonymous User on 02-12-21
By: Harlan Ellison
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The Compleat Glass Teat
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were only three major television networks. And there was only one Harlan Ellison taking them all to task in a series of weekly essays he wrote for the countercultural, underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. “The Freep”. For nearly four years, he channel-surfed through the mire of ABC, CBS, and NBC, finding little of value but much to critique. No one offered a more astute analysis of the idiot box’s influence on American culture, or its effects on the intelligence and psyche of viewers.
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Harlan Ellison as Time Capsule.
- By TG on 08-12-22
By: Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Ellison's Watching
- Essays and Criticism
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Everyone’s a critic, especially in the digital age—but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years’ worth of essays and film criticism.
By: Harlan Ellison
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Troublemakers
- Stories
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books; more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns; two dozen teleplays; and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison's classic stories—chosen by the author—that will introduce new listeners to a writer described by the New York Times as having "the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind."
By: Harlan Ellison
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Spider Kiss
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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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.
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This is a fable
- By RICHARD on 09-05-20
By: Harlan Ellison
What listeners say about The City on the Edge of Forever
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- A. West
- 05-28-17
A fascinating look at what could have been.
Experiencing this original draft of this classic Star Trek episode "The City on the edge of Forever" was quite interesting in and of itself, but all the supplementary material was fascinating. (to use a Spock term) It's a journey into, not only an alternate world where a markedly different version of the story took place , but a journey into the behind the scenes drama trying to get the story finished and produced. Writer Harlan Ellison's frustration at all the rewrites he was forced to do and subsequent drafts without him are understandable when one reads (or hears in this case) his first draft. Though I still enjoy the televised version, I can now see the greater strengths In his untouched work. Besides this, is the story of Harlan's feud with Gene Roddenberry over the whole affair and his surprising bad treatment by Gene in later years for no good reason. I'm glad Harlan finally got to tell his version of the story on both accounts. It's well worth a listen or a read!
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- Kenneth S.
- 05-18-21
The real reading starts in chapter 5.
Chapters 1 through 4 are endless complaining and airing of behind the scenes fighting. Chapter 5 is where you start the readings of the various versions of the script. Chapters 1 through 4 get only 1 star. 5 stars for the rest of the book.
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- K. Jemison
- 12-16-23
You aren't buying this for what you think you are buying it for...
No, while Harlan Ellison's original screenplay is poignant, poetic, and beautiful, what you are actually buying this for is listen, spellbound, as Harlan spends literally hours eviscerating all those who have wronged him in the past. Of course this is primarily Gene RoddenbJerry, but also those that supported him. These parts are actually recorded by Ellison and you can feel the relish in his voice as he sets the record straight, and he has receipts. It's classic Ellison. I imagine he must have been a very hard man to be friends with, but he is certainly an incredibly gifted, if cantankerous, writer.
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- video meliora proboque
- 09-27-16
I Have Two Ears and I Must Applaud
I'd forgotten from half a century ago how overwhelmingly enamoured I was of Ellison's virtually inimitable verbal virtuosity, his prodigiously creative imagination, the gut-wrenching poignancy of many of his stories (and even the combination of analytical rigor and hysterical humor that pervaded his television reviews in both volumes of "The Glass Teat").
But now I remember, and having listened to this entrancing and eloquently narrated account of the truth about the appalling treatment of his original (and brilliant) script for "The City on the Edge of Forever," I can well understand some of the inspired mordancy of his reviews of television shows no more in the league of his own "dangerous visions," than Danielle Steel is in the league of James Joyce -- which is not even to insult Danielle Steel, because it was never her intent to produce timeless works of genius. Ellison, IMHO, produced virtually nothing else.
This is the best audio book to which I've listened in perhaps two years.
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- Jeffrey
- 03-28-21
Star Trek was not worthy of Ellison
A pleasure to revisit the original screenplay of this classic Trek episode. While considered by many Trekkies to be the best of the original 79 episodes, this version could have been one of the greatest Science Fiction achievements in TV history. The depth, heart and visual concepts presented dwarf by comparison the final product shown to audiences. It makes me laugh that so many people hate the "space pirates" bit (a vehicle for Rand so she would be more than eye candy) - even though it's basically the prototype for the beloved Mirror Universe that first manifested 6 months later. The original concept for the Guardians of Forever is so much cooler, and the excised plight of forgotten war veteran Trooper is heart breaking.. Great to hear the voice of the late, great Ellison again, too.
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- Kevin D LAmbert
- 10-29-23
Interesting twist
I enjoy Harkin Ellison, I am a big Star Trek fan. It was nice to hear the original version of this story. I really could have done without all the whining, blaming and shaming that preceded the storytelling. REALLY! Can one be that petty? Enjoy the tale and skip the introduction.
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- Bob M
- 08-06-16
An absolute joy to listen to!
If you could sum up The City on the Edge of Forever in three words, what would they be?
Passionate, morally complex.
What other book might you compare The City on the Edge of Forever to and why?
None. Harlan Ellison is one of a kind.
Which scene was your favorite?
When Spock at the end tells Kirk that "No woman was ever loved as much Jim, because no woman was ever offered the universe for love."
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Better then the original aired episode, buy your ticket now!
Any additional comments?
Enjoyed so much about this audio book:
Ellison reading his own delightfully candid introduction.
The full cast giving life to the Award Winning Teleplay.
Mostly it's just having this treasure on audio.
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- Anita
- 01-17-18
5 Stars Really? for this belly full of kavetching?
well...yes.
if there is one thing Harlan Ellison is good
at, it's being pissed off.
I own the neigh definitive Ellison collection. He is a genius.
He's hard core.
Passionate.
Driven.
Rebellious.
Ellison seems a man perpetually on a mission.
I've listened to him read his own work,
**NO ONE ELSE SHOULD READ ELLISON BUT ELLISON.**
enjoyed the result of his consult in Babylon 5, and faithfully watched ALL of the Sci-fi Channel's (that's SCI-FI, not sy-fy) Sci-Fi Buzz commentaries.
Preface to sayng...he is now older than dirt...and pissed off to an order of magnitude appropriate to time for said experiences in culminated in this iconic brand of pissed-off-ed-ness.
This missive is drowning in epic pissed-off-ed-ness.
To call this a "rant" would be to diminish the intensity of the epic pissed-off-ed-ness for which Ellison is known.
From his first statement read himself, it is evident, this has been a point of contention. ... for a VERY long time.
1966 was a fair piece ago.
This reader was but 7 years of age... and Star Trek was the best thing on television, and City on the Edge of Forever was the best of the best.
That's a long time to be ticked...and in his intro, it ALL comes boiling over.
Couldn't he just give us the facts and story without the tirade?
Just the info without ripping the collective guilty to shreds in bloody spectacle of enraged verbosity?
If he did, it wouldn't be Ellison.
...and we wouldn't care to read / listen to it.
It's a long time to hold the grudge.
Today, 30 years after the fact, Ellison is older than dirt and still above it.
His diction is slurry.
His voice is gravel.
His complaint is complete.
His voice, from the immutable edge, is rapier sharp.
And the bitterness is deadly.
if you REALLY want to know, here are the facts.
If you haven't read it. (and if you haven't Ellison's original script for City on the Edge of Forever, how can you call yourself a Trekkie?) here it is.
If you like bonuses like alternate versions and endings, here ya go.
WARNING!
The facts are delivered with BITE.
The expletives and blasphemy are exactly what any Ellison reader...even the reader of but a single tale... will be expecting.
I didn't say "like", but you know it's coming.
I won't bid you, "gentle reader", a good read / listen, though I doub'r you will ever forget even a single encounter with Ellison.
I will tell you the roller-coaster has no safety belts or bars!
I will tell you to hold on for your life!!!
THIS IS ELLISON, AND HE NEVER, EVER, HOLDS BACK.
Anything less would not be Harlan Ellison.
Anything less would not be worth the effort.
This, for better and worse, is the master of wit, and edge, and words.
As salty as ever and more: Harlan Ellison.
Foofighterubu Wargame Terrain Studio
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- Jeffrey D Gawrys
- 01-08-17
Glad I Read It. Holly wired is Nuts
The fact that many people are included in putting together a full story that eventually ends up on the big screen is evident in most productions. It is interesting to see how an original concept is changed throughout the production process, how ego is involved, and how many people want to take credit for someone else's original idea. "The City On The Edge of Forever" my favorite Star Trek episode. In my opinion, and it is my opinion, what was eventually filmed was better than the original storyline. I did like the original concept and the original story, but I still hold that what ended up on the screen held to the Star Trek franchise and held true to the characters.
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- Alan
- 10-27-16
Beter to have loved and lossed?
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book to Startrek efficinato.
As I was born in 1960, you could almost say I was weened on Startrek. "The city on the edge of forever" was certainly one of my favourates, in the top five. Until now, I have never read any of the so called inside Startrek books. My thoughts were, let the stories rest on their own. I have never been the look behind the curten kind of guy. I bought and downloaded this book because I thought it was simply a version of the story adapted to audio book, guess I didn't read the description and comments.
Normally if it is Startrek, I just buy it.
Yes I have heard before that Jean Rodinbary was hard to get along with so I thought this book would be another example of the same. I guess if enough people are saying simular things, you start to think, maybe there is a fire under all that smoke.
As per the original scripts described in this book, I find myself wishing that version had been made. I don't know if it could have been done well as an hour show though. Could the additional characters been fleshed out enough? Would there have been enough time to explain the background of leveck... If not, perhaps it could have been made into a 2 part special for example. Is it possible that Jean thought that version of the story couldn't be sold tto the people that funded Startrek? Did they not want a strong character in yelman Rand? Was it not possible to put that mouch story into an hour show? Would it have required too mouch in the way of special effects than were possible at the time (1966)?
If so, why not just say so instead of this diatribe?
In any event, the book was a good read if not a pleasent one.
Alan
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hay, it's Startrek. For this episode it would have to be Edith Keyler.
What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
This book had many narrators.City on the edge of forever - extended
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Knooks can be nasty too.
Any additional comments?
I guess I've said it already, I wish this version had been made.
Perhaps we want our stories to be rapped up in a neet pacage most of the time with few complecations. Once in a while it would be nice to have story archs cary on or at least referenced. Characters would matter. Stories would have more impact.
I guess those are my comments having never written a book, screen play, script not even a tiny poem, ok, maybe the aud limeric or quatrain in high school.
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