Harlan Ellison's Movie

1990

First published as a limited edition set with The Harlan Ellison Hornbook. Both books were released in a trade edition as Edgeworks 3.

Written in 1970 and never produced, it is, more than most of Ellison's work, a creature very much of the crazed and tragic era in which it was born. Part fantasy, part allegory and part countercultural soap opera, it's basically a variation on the old "what if a hippie ran the country" scenario. Much of the dialogue is downright painful to read. You hip, baby?