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Hardcover (Trade)

Published September 2022

Hardcover (Trade) price: $35.00

Second edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-344-9
ISBN-10: 1-61037-344-8
Page count: 520
Book Size: 6" x 9"

Ebook (epub)

Published January 2021

Ebook (epub) price: $9.95

Second edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-325-8
ISBN-10: 1-61037-325-1
Page count: 470
Book Size: 16Mb

Ebook (mobi)

Published January 2021

Ebook (mobi) price: $9.95

Second edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-008-0
ISBN-10: 1-61037-008-2
Page count: 470
Book Size: 16Mb

Hardcover (Trade)

Published July 2017

Hardcover (Trade) price: $28.00

First edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-323-4
ISBN-10: 1-61037-323-5
Page count: 448
Book Size: 6" x 9"

Boxed Hardcover

Published April 2017

Boxed Hardcover price: $60.00
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$25/book to Canada addresses;
$35/book elsewhere

First edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-322-7
ISBN-10: 1-61037-322-7
Page count: 450
Book Size: 6" x 9"

A Lit Fuse

The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison

This text relates to the Second edition • Hardcover (Trade)

by Nat Segaloff

The first edition trade hardcover is now discounted 20% from its normal $35 price to $28. and the special limited edition is also discounted from the normal $75 to $60.
You can find the discounted first editions by looking farther down on the left for the first trade edition jacket (mostly white) and first edition limited cover (red) images.

This vastly expanded second edition of the Hugo-nominated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison is available as an ebook as of January 2021, and as a hardcover as of September 2022, covering events after Harlan Ellison’s death in June, 2018. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan’s friends and a coda covering the death of Harlan’s wife, Susan Ellison. Containing tributes from SF icons, appraisals of Harlan’s legacy, and previously unpublished material, this second edition provides closure and perspective to an unquiet life and a lasting legacy.

Table of Contents for the 2nd edition

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
Chapter 2: First Contact
Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
Chapter 4: Marriage Ain’t Nothin’ But Love Misspelled
Chapter 5: Science Friction
Chapter 6: Teats for Two
Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
40 pages of photos
Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
Chapter 12: The Collector
Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
Epilogue
Afterword
Foreword to the Second Edition
The Fuse Extinguished (A Personal Addendum)
The Last Word
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
Appendix C: Awards
Appendix D: Interviews
Selected Bibliography
Index

Edited by David G. Grubbs
Cover photo by Beth Gwinn