chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) (12/03/84)
I'd like to recommend _Sleepness_Nights_in_the_Procrustean_Bed_, a book of rare and previously unreprinted essays by Harlan Ellison, edited by Marty Clark. It contains the Introduction to the "Harlan Ellison Issue" of F&SF, some speeches and program book essays from WorldCons, several essays normally rather hard to find for some of us since they were originally published in Los Angeles magazine, Video Review, and other magazines. Two of the items come from SFWA speeches: these show briefly that Ellison does know quite a good deal about the movie business and its attitudes towards writers. There is also an account of Ellison's participation in the March on Montogomery in '65; this article is a chilling time-capsule/time-bomb of the hatred and fear in Alabama concerning the Civil Rights marches. This volume may be a bit hard to find (I only saw it accidentally in a bookstore I normally don't go to), so here's some publishing info from the back cover: The Borgo Press, Distributed to the trade by Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., P.O. Box 7589, Van Nuys, CA 91409. It has a copyright date of 1984. ISBN 0-89370-270-6. To interested Cambridge Mass folk, I found mine in the Paperback Booksmith in Harvard Square in the science fiction section. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]