Contains Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled and The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, the latter one of Ellison's best books, the former one of his best titles.
This edition of Love Ain't Nothing drops several of the lesser stories from the 1976 edition as well as, unfortunately, a couple of the better ones ("Daniel White for the Greater Good" and "When I Was a Hired Gun"). But it includes two new items: an unproduced teleplay, "Moonlighting," (not to be confused with the '80s TV series starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd), based on Ellison's short story "Ormand Always Pays His Bills" (collected in No Doors, No Windows); and a short story, "Passport," first published in 1957 in the men's magazine Rogue. The former is an interesting "true" crime tale with a predictable twist at the end; the latter, a jazz-era domestic drama, is interesting mostly for the way Ellison captures the rhythms and lingo of a subculture now mostly vanished.
The new version of Beast is distinguished only by a forward by Neil Gaiman that is one of the nicest tributes to Ellison in many moons. Ellison's own introduction to the volume, however, is short and grim, a fact he acknowledges with a promise to write more for the next Edgeworks edition -- which White Wolf never published.
