--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich@...> wrote:
>
> I have a permanent warm spot in my heart for Harlan
Ellison dating
> from the day I found his 1960 Ace Doublebook on the
rack at
Clark's
> Drug Store in Stockbridge, Georgia. On one side was
his novel THE
> MAN WITH NINE LIVES and on the other a short story
collection A
> TOUCH OF INFINITY--all science fiction. What made
the collection
> different was the inclusion of individual story
introductions by
> Ellison for each short story.
>
> It was the first time I felt connected to a
contemporary writer--
> connected to his thoughts and goals in each
story.
I had a similar experience as a kid, picking up my father's
copies of PARTNERS IN WONDER and AGAIN, DANGEROUS
VISIONS...the window given into the lives of Ellison and the
other writers waas often as compelling, occasionally moreso,
than the fiction the prefaces and postscripts were wrapped
around. Isaac Asimov, as he was quick to note, did something
similar (as occasionally did Theodore Sturgeon) with
collections and anthologies at about the same time, even a
bit earlier, but no one did so with quite the same panache
that Ellison did.
Todd Mason
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