tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post9028033283790121717..comments2024-03-26T21:58:50.501-04:00Comments on MPorcius Fiction Log: Four stories from the 1950s by Harlan EllisonMPorciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15515742639389937221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post-73064492469604383542016-12-08T01:53:02.530-05:002016-12-08T01:53:02.530-05:00Thanks for the link to the reproduction of the iss...Thanks for the link to the reproduction of the issue of <i>Fantastic</i>, but you were too late--my copy of a 1969 magazine containing seven late 1950s Ellison tales is already on its way to my mailbox!<br /><br />http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253460MPorciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15515742639389937221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post-32043446189032116872016-12-08T01:49:38.218-05:002016-12-08T01:49:38.218-05:00In the recording to which you link Ellison refers ...In the recording to which you link Ellison refers to New American Library / Signet, so unless he is scrambling up the story for some reason (and somebody in the comments at YouTube does claim Ellison has told a version of the story in which a TV producer, not a publishing exec, is the victim) it doesn't seem like my Belmont edition of <i>From the Land of Fear</i> can have been the trigger for the gopher attack.MPorciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15515742639389937221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post-15426904173823518502016-12-07T15:59:04.795-05:002016-12-07T15:59:04.795-05:00Save your pennies. That issue of Fantastic is avai...Save your pennies. That issue of Fantastic is available online at:<br /><br />https://archive.org/stream/Fantastic_v06n04_1957-05#page/n3/mode/2up<br /><br />In fact about 90% of all sf and fantasy magazines published before the millennium are available at archive.org except for Asimov’s, F&SF and Analog as they are still active publications.<br /><br />That edition of Ellison’s book with the cigarette ads resulted in an escalating war over contract stipulations between Ellison and the publisher culminating in Ellison sending them a dead gopher through the post. He tells the story:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_hekYXWiw<br /><br />- matthew davis<br />ukjarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12250028389206081742noreply@blogger.com