The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison

It was sometime in the mid-nineties at Dangerous Visions Bookstore in Sherman Oaks, when a seismic shift altered the foundations of the room. It wasn t the Northridge quake, but it was certainly a force of nature in walked Harlan.

I had told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a table of contents that included some of the very writers in this book. That s a pretty nifty list, Harlan said. Do it, kiddo.

As the years passed, I went on to write for Nature Magazine and became a contributing editor at Locus, and the dream kind of fell by the wayside, but Harlan never let me forget. And though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally here a book full of memories and love thirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. It s strong and strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes and stories of Harlan. Of course, to include everyone influenced by Harlan and the work he celebrated would more than fill The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars.

I m proud to announce the final table of contents for THE UNQUIET DREAMER: A TRIBUTE TO HARLAN ELLISON. Preston Grassmann

CONTENTS
Introduction: Older Than Five, Younger Than Twelve
Foreword 1 Second Father/First Child by Josh Olson
Foreword 2 Harlan Ellison s Influence on Me by Ellen Datlow
Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out by Paul Di Filippo
A Thin Silver Line by Steve Rasnic Tem
On an Old Man s Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones by Adam Troy Castro
Hums by Peter Crowther
The Re-Evolution of Cloud Nine by Nikhil Singh
The First of Many Shudders by Kaaron Warren
Break Into Three by Nick Mamatas
Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon by Ian McDonald
The Last Shout of the Beast by Bruce Sterling
Alice s by Lisa Tuttle
Digger Split. by David Gerrold
The Wedding Gown by Jeffrey Thomas
And Everywhere That Mary Went by Anna Tambour
Amniocryptic by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Build Your Own Monster by Rumi Kaneko (translated by Preston Grassmann)
Race Across a Vanishing Landscape by Gio Clairval
Rave On by Gregory Benford
The Collaboration by Allen M. Steele
The Man Who Saw Wakanda by Steven Barnes
The Starfucker Dyad by Rich Larson
With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole by Gregory Norman Bossert
Perfection by John Skipp & Autumn Christian
Silicon Times e-Book Review by Greg Bear
The Seer by Chris Kelso
Live Inside Your Own Sky by D.R.G Sugawara
Various Kinds of Conceits by Arthur Byron Cover
Five Years Later by Scott Edelman
The Fragments of a Hologram City by Preston Grassmann
Flies by Robert Silverberg