Edgeworks: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled/The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Edgeworks Series , Vol 4) [Hardcover]

Harlan Ellison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997

Another double dose of Harlan Ellison's best--for aficionados and latecomers alike. Opening with a new Introduction, written for especially for this omnibus by the master essayist himself, this enormous volume presents Spider Kiss, a gritty, rockabillly novel, and Stalking the Nightmare, a collection of 20 of Ellison's best stories and essays.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The Edgeworks are designed as the projected 20-volume definitive version of this controversial author's collected works. Harlan Ellison is the most honored fantasist of the 20th century, and many of the books in the long-awaited series have been out of print for decades. Each volume also contains new introductions, and often the original work itself has been revised or expanded by the author. Edgeworks 2 includes an early (1961) novel Spider Kiss, originally titled Rockabilly. It was one of the very first--and still remains one of the best--dissections of the wildly destructive rock & roll lifestyle. Stalking the Nightmare is a 1982 collection of assorted short stories and essays, which also boasts an insightful foreword by Ellison admirer Stephen King. Sampling any part of Edgeworks 2 will give readers a taste of this great writer's talent. --Stanley Wiater --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

This fourth volume in the publisher's ongoing Ellison series contains two of the author's best short story collections?and that's saying something! The stories include Riding the Dark Train Out, Asleep: With Still Hands, Are You Listening?, The Beast That Shouted Love..., Shattered Like a Glass Goblin, and one of his absolute finest, A Boy and His Dog. Though generally identified with sf, many of Ellison's stories transcend that genre and can be enjoyed by all.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; 1st White Wolf Omnibus Ed edition (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565049632
• ISBN-13: 978-1565049635
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,270,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Ellison's white-hot writing will dazzle...", January 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Edgeworks: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled/The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Edgeworks Series , Vol 4) (Hardcover)

This fourth volume in White Wolf's reprint series includes two of Ellison's finest collections. The first, "Love Aint Nothing But Sex Misspelled," contains stories reflecting the angst and turmoil of the sixties. "The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-strap Wedgie," "Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine," "A Prayer For No Ones Enemy," and "Punky & the Yale Men" deal variously with icons, abortion, politics and racism. The second collection examines love and the various forms it takes: from the experimental title tale, "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World," which won Ellison his fourth Hugo, "Along the Scenic Route," which dealt with "road rage" long before the term was coined, and "Try a Dull Knife," a story about emotional vampirism, to the cult classic, Nebula-winning novella, "A Boy and His Dog," in which a futuristic society is turned upside down and a canine companion educates a boy while teaching him the true meaning of love. Dressed up in a provocative dust-jacket by John K. Snyder, this big, beautiful omnibus edition will capture the heart of longtime fans and dazzle the uninitiated with Ellison's white-hot writing. (from "Des Moines Register" Copyright 1998)

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Author bio on the end flap alone is worth the price., November 18, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Edgeworks: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled/The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Edgeworks Series , Vol 4) (Hardcover)

I give this book a 9 because a 10 would be for perfection and Mr. Ellison is not perfect. The endflap presents a benevolent side of the nearly perfect author that has been carefully concealed from his readers in the past. This book is yet another collection of short stories. They are nearly all wonderfully crafted morality tales driven by white-hot anger. I have many paperbacks by this author, including one where the author is identified as "Hal" Ellison. They are crumbling with age and I fear to open them. Thank you, White Wolf Publishing, for bringing them out in these great new editions. Included is an author's introduction which puts a personal context around these stories. This intro is an important part of the stories. The reader would be as impoverished without this as one who views a play by George Bernard Shaw without reading the author's commentary.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love that bleeds, March 3, 2003

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This review is from: Edgeworks: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled/The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Edgeworks Series , Vol 4) (Hardcover)

The jacket flap sums up this book perfectly, 'Here are two big books in one volume. Each has the word "love" in the title. But don't let that get your hopes up. Yeah, these are stories that sing... but they also draw blood.' That's the core of this book, real love, not the pampered and idealistic stuff that preaches "love will conquer all." This is about love that hurts.

This volume is divided into two books, I prefer the second, with all stories on the different kinds of love. My favorites are the two bookend stories that open and close this book. "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is beautifully crafted and shows how good a short story can be. The last story in the collection, "A Boy and His Dog," is a great way to end the book and the collection. The first book in this volume, although not my favorite, is still very good, and contains stories that reach into different faucets of life, and show the love between people and their different lives.

When Shakespeare saw love, he saw the kind that ends in a double suicide, Harlan Ellison hits pretty close to the same nail with this collection. Even though not every story in here is top notch, I still highly recomend this volume for a great look on real love, and for containing some of the best short stories Ellison has written.