From the Land of Fear: 11 Side Trips to the Dark Edge of Imagination. Eleven tales by master storyteller Harlan Ellison. A look back at stories not included in other collections. In his introduction, the author says: I would not write them this way were I writing them today. Several of them I find painfully amateurish. Most of the stories were written in the late Fifties. When I was learning my craft. From the Land of Fear has at least one (or, in fact, two) standout piece, Soldier, a clever anti-war tale included both in ...
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From the Land of Fear: 11 Side Trips to the Dark Edge of Imagination. Eleven tales by master storyteller Harlan Ellison. A look back at stories not included in other collections. In his introduction, the author says: I would not write them this way were I writing them today. Several of them I find painfully amateurish. Most of the stories were written in the late Fifties. When I was learning my craft. From the Land of Fear has at least one (or, in fact, two) standout piece, Soldier, a clever anti-war tale included both in short-story form and as a screenplay Ellison wrote for TV's The Outer Limits.
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