Slippage (book)

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This article is about the short story collection by Harlan Ellison. For other uses, see Slippage (disambiguation).

Slippage
first limited edition
Author	Harlan Ellison
Cover artist	Jill Bauman
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	short stories
Publisher	Mark V. Ziesing (limited edition) Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	1997
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	303 pp
ISBN	0-395-35341-6
OCLC	37600519
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3555.L62 S58 1997

Slippage is a collection of short stories by author Harlan Ellison. In the introduction, Ellison introduces the concept of 'slippage', or the falling apart of one's life, as the underlying theme of the book. In addition to the stories listed in the table of contents, the book includes a short narration of an unhealthy relationship with a woman named Charlotte as an example of a 'slippage' in the author's life. Charlotte was the name of Ellison's first wife, married to her from 1956 to 1960. ^[1]

Several of the stories in Slippage won awards. "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" was selected for inclusion in the 1993 edition of The Best American Short Stories. "Chatting With Anubis" won the Bram Stoker Award for best short story in 1995. The collection as a whole also won a Locus Poll Award for best short story collection in 1998.

"Mefisto in Onyx" had previously appeared as an award-winning novella which had cover art by Frank Miller. It won the Bram Stoker Award in 1993 and the Locus Pool Award in 1994 for best Novella in each respective year.

Slippage includes the screenplay for "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", which originally aired as an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1989.

Introduction: The Fault in My Line
The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore
Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You
Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep
The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays its Way and Makes Change
The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke
The Museum on Cyclopse Avenue
Go Toward the Light
Mefisto in Onyx
Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World
Chatting With Anubis
The Few, The Proud
Sensible City
The Dragon on the Bookshelf (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg)
Keyboard
Jane Doe #112
The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams
Pulling Hard Time
Scartaris, June 28
She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother
Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral

↑ Weil, Ellen and Gary K. Wolfe, "Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever" Ohio State University Press, 2002, pg. 36.

v t e Harlan Ellison

Novels & novellas	Web of the City Spider Kiss A Boy and His Dog

Short story collections	The Deadly Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Paingod and Other Delusions I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Alone Against Tomorrow Approaching Oblivion Deathbird Stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Slippage

Short stories	Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World The Deathbird The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel The Discarded The Dragon on the Bookshelf From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet Grail I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Jeffty Is Five The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Shattered Like a Glass Goblin Soldier From Tomorrow The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Paladin of the Lost Hour

Collaborations	Phoenix Without Ashes Mind Fields

Televison work	"Soldier" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "The City on the Edge of Forever" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Gramma" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"

Adaptations	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "The Human Operators" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Shatterday" A Boy and His Dog (film)

Anthologies edited	Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions Medea: Harlan's World

Non-fiction	Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat Harlan Ellison's Watching The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

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Slippage (book)

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