Over the Edge (2021 Edgeworks Abbey Archive Trade Hardcover)

Five years in the making, the Edgeworks Abbey Archive represents Harlan Ellison’s last word on his written legacy. Researched and edited by the author’s long-time associate, Jason Davis, under the supervision of Harlan and Susan Ellison, this collection assembles the preferred texts of each story and essay along with previously uncollected and unpublished material to create the definitive edition.

Amid the ruins of a world in which men become monsters, dreams turn to poison, and the only sanity lies in fantasy, these nine stories and three essays take you beyond the brink, to study the terrifying landscape charted by Harlan Ellison.

“An impressive performer; a young man to watch for surprises; unpredictable and rewarding.”
The Chicago Tribune

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Description

Edited by Jason Davis, director of the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project.

Cover by Jason Davis.

The complete table of contents of the 1996 EDGEWORKS, Volume 1 version of OVER THE EDGE, including later revisions by the author.

  • The Frontiers of Edgeville by Norman Spinrad (1996 version)
  • Introduction: Brinksmanship (1996 version)
  • Pennies, Off a Dead Man’s Eyes
  • The End of the Time of Leinard
  • 3 Faces of Fear (essay)
  • Blind Lightning
  • Walk the High Steel
  • Shadow Play
  • The Words in Spock’s Mouth (essay)
  • From a Great Height
  • Night Vigil
  • Xenogenesis (essay)
  • Rock God
  • Ernest and the Machine God

NEW Edgeworks Abbey Archive Content:

The All New, All Different… by Jason Davis
An original essay detailing the history of Ellison’s twelfth short story collection.

Cutting-Edge Copy: 1966
A compendium of Ellison-written cover copy for 26 years’ worth of OVER THE EDGE reissues.

Story Commentary: 1955-2001
Ellison-written commentary on the stories from an early assembly of A TOUCH OF INFINITY (1959), an early assembly of FROM THE LAND OF FEAR (1967), the 1970 edition of OVER THE EDGE, and unpublished introductions from ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW (1971).

The Final Push
Ellison’s other traditional Western short story, previously collected in the 2014 edition of AGAIN, HONORABLE WHOREDOM AT A PENNY A WORD, but collected here as a complement to “The End of the Time of Leinard.”

The Dead Man’s Pennies (previously unpublished)
Ellison’s unfinished My Name Is Adam treatment that became the basis for “Pennies, Off a Dead Man’s Eyes.”

Dreamers on the Barricades (previously uncollected)
The first of Ellison’s trilogy of essays featured in the three CLARION anthologies edited by Robin Scott Wilson.

Goodbye, Gypsy (previously uncollected)
An August 1972 Ellison essay from Knight that ties in to “From a Great Height.”

Good Morning, Folks; I Am Not Kathie Lee Gifford
Ellison’s 1996 introduction to EDGEWORKS, Volume 1, which featured OVER THE EDGE and AN EDGE IN MY VOICE.

Bring on the Dancing Frogs (previously uncollected)
Harlan Ellison’s unfinished 1982 novella, previously heard only at conventions on the KPFK radio show Hour 25.

6″ x 9″ Trade Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 300p. ISBN: 978-1-946542-23-6.

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Weight 1.825 lbs
Dimensions 6.5 × 9.25 × 1.1 in
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