Fiction Bibliography

Novels
   The Man with Nine Lives (1960) - short novel - half of Ellison's  ACE 'double'
   Doomsman (1967) - short novel in Belmont 'double'
   Phoenix Without Ashes (1975) - co-authored with Edward Bryant
   Blood's a Rover (2018) - a "fix-up" novel of several novellas

Collections
Harlan Ellison is most well known (and rightly so) for his short stories. Many of the best of these have been anthologised in SF collections by other editors, but he published many of them (following their appearance as stories in the SF magazines of the day) in his own collections. I've read a few of these collections and they are highly recommended. Most of Harlan's collections gather several of his latest stories published around the time of the collection (and generally not published in other books) as well as including numerous older pieces (i.e. from the 1950's) that have often not been collected previously either. The 'best' collections to seek out, in the sense that they mainly collect stories for the the first time in book-form at the time they were published (i.e. major books from Ellison's), are shown in bold in the list below.

   A Touch of Infinity (1960) - half of ACE double along with The Man with Nine Lives
   Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961)
   Ellison Wonderland (1962) - good early collection reviewed on this site (also pub. as Earthman Go Home)
   Paingod and Other Delusions (1965)
   I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967) - contains the titular classic
   From the Land of Fear (1967)
   Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968)
   The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) - award-winning collection
   Over the Edge (1970) - half mid-50's stories, half 1968-1970 stories
   Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (1971) -  terrific collection - akin to an early 'best of'
   Partners in Wonder (1971) - stories co-authored with 14 other authors
   Approaching Oblivion (1974)
   Deathbird Stories (1975) - 
   No Doors, No Windows (1975) - mostly non-genre stories 1957-1975 (only one SF)
   Strange Wine (1978) - collects stories all first published 1975-1977
   The Illustrated Harlan Ellison (1978) - illustrated anthology 1957-1978
   Shatterday (1980) - mostly late 1970's stories
   Stalking the Nightmare (1982) - mixture of '50's stories and contemporaneous work
   The Essential Ellison - A 35-Year Retrospective (1987) - a 'best of' collection
   Angry Candy (1988) - award-winning collection
   Mind Fields (1994) - stories inspired by artist Jacek Yerka
   Slippage (1997) - previously uncollected stories from '80's and '90's
   Troublemakers (2001) - mostly old stories; one new story - aimed at YA market
   The Essential Ellison - A 50-Year Retrospective (2001) - updated 'best of' collection
   The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014) - another 'best of'
   Can & Can'tankerous (2015) - late stories from the 2000's
   Ellison Under Glass: Stories Written in Windows (2019)

Anthology Series
   Dangerous Visions (1967)
   Again, Dangerous Visions (1972)
   The Last Dangerous Visions (unpublished - but possibly coming soon with major changes & updates)

Award-Winning Screenplays
   The Outer Limits - Demon with a Glass Hand
   Star Trek: The Original Series - The City on the Edge of Forever
   [Harlan also wrote several scripts for The Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.] 
   

Ellison Quotes

On Stupidity and Ignorance

   You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

   I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

   The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

   In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

   The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

On Being Angry and Difficult

   I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

   I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

  I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.

On Writing and Literature

   I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.

   Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

   Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

   It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possibility of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

   There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'

On TV and Technology

   You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.

   I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?

   We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

Thoughts on Life

   If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

   The minute people fall in love they become liars.