Critical Insights: Harlan Ellison

Critical Insights: Harlan Ellison includes my essay "All RoadsLead to Hell: Harlan Ellison,Cormac McCarthy, and the BitterEnd of the American Dream".Edited by Joseph Francavilla, the latest book from US publisherSalem Press explores the work of one of the pre-eminent American writers of the past fifty years.My chapter compares andcontrasts Ellison's post-apocalyptic stories "A Boy and His Dog" and"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" with McCarthy's Pulitzer-Prize-Winning novel The Road,and discusses the tradition of the Last Man in literature.From the Salem Press website:"Essays discuss Ellison'srelationship with the sciencefiction and fantasy community,his sense that mainstream criticsslighted his work because it wasidentified with genre fiction orpopular fiction, his easy post-modern accommodation of popular

culture references and images,

and his ambiguous standing in the

literary establishment."

Critical Insights: Harlan Ellison is

available from Amazon.