Ellison wonderland

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition. This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a 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 forty years later. Bluejay, 1984. Trade paperback. First published in 1962, this is a collection of the best of Ellison's early work. Contains a new introduction ("The Man On the Mushroom") written for this edition, and these stories: "Commuter's Problem" (1957); "Do-It-Yourself" (1961, with Joe L. Hensley); "The Silver Corridor" (1956); "All the Sounds of Fear" (1962); "Gnomebody" (1956); "The Sky Is Burning" (1958); "Mealtime" (1958); "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" (1958); "Battlefield" (1958); "Deal from the Bottom" (1960); "The Wind Beyond the Mountains" (1957); "Back to the Drawing Boards" (1958); "Nothing for My Noon Meal" (1958); "Hadj" (1956); "Rain, Rain, Go Away" (1956); "In Lonely Lands" (1959).