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Title: Ellison Wonderland
Author: Harlan Ellison, Josh Olson - afterword
Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Alex Hyde-White, Jim Meskimen, Arthur Morey, full cast
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-15
Publisher: Skyboat Media, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains 16 masterful stories from the author's early career.
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.
Members Reviews:
Your Audio Guide to Ellison Wonderland
For me any new Harlan Ellison audiobook is a cause for celebration. If youre a fan, this 2015 edition of Ellison Wonderland includes a lengthy new introduction and a new story within the introduction section.
If you havent read Ellison before these are earlier works and you may first want to check out his Edge in My Voice collections, which include many of his best stories. He also reads/performs many of the stories in the collection, which I prefer. The other performers are also very good.
Ellison Wonderland is fun and the new material makes it worth your while if youve previously read the book.
Here is a breakdown of the contents:
GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE: AN APPRECIATION OF HARLAN ELLISON by J. Michael Straczynski
Authors Introduction: THE MAN ON THE MUSHROOM (1974/1984)
Authors new Introduction: DONT LOOK BEHIND YOU: THE LAST DANGEROUS INTRODUCTION TO ELLISON WONDERLAND (2013)
COMMUTERS PROBLEM
DO-IT-YOURSELF (Written in collaboration with Joe L. Hensley)
THE SILVER CORRIDOR
ALL THE SOUNDS OF FEAR
GNOMEBODY
THE SKY IS BURNING
MEALTIME
THE VERY LAST DAY OF A GOOD WOMAN
BATTLEFIELD
DEAL FROM THE BOTTOM
THE WIND BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
ARE YOU LISTENING? (AKA, THE FORCES THAT CRUSH)
NOTHING FOR MY NOON MEAL
HADJ
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY
IN LONELY LANDS
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS
AFTERWORD by Josh Olson
Early Ellison
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
This is very early Ellison. So I would recommend this book to fans of his, but would not really recommend it to people who weren't fans. Ellison was just getting started, and the stories, particularly the endings, are a little bit... well the endings are just a lot of "let me explain what the ending is!" (Tell instead of show.)
Would you be willing to try another book from Harlan Ellison and Josh Olson - afterword ? Why or why not?
If Ellison wrote novels, and selected a single narrator or narrated them himself then I would select one of those to read. I like full cast productions but I don't think it works as well for a short story collection such as this. I had to switch gears so much in terms of narrators.
Did the narrators do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
I enjoyed the narrators, except for Alex Hyde-White, whose voice just didn't work for me. He was not a bad narrator, his voice was just VERY deep and resonated in a way that almost hurt my ears. But overall they were good, and handled the different voices well. There weren't as many characters to differentiate because the stories were short etc.
