Spider Robinson, reviewing the 1975 reissue, noted that the stories came from an early stage of Ellison's career, describing the concepts as "striking and brilliant" but finding that "the craft, the execution of those ideas, might best be described as impulsive". " "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman". New Introduction (1975 and later editions): "Your Basic Crown of Thorns".Introduction (1965): "Spero Meliora: From the Vicinity of Alienation". "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman", winner of the 1966 Hugo Award, the 1965 Nebula Award and the 2015 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, as well as being one of the most reprinted stories in the English language, "Wanted In Surgery", and "The Crackpots" are particularly famous examples of this theme in Ellison's work. The general theme that runs through each of these stories is the rejection of the establishment and the fight of the individual against a corrupt authority. The collection's only hardcover edition is The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison, which compiles it together with Ellison's " I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". Pyramid reissued the collection four times over the next fifteen years, with a new introduction added for a uniform edition of Ellison books in 1975. The story, 'Repent, Harlequin Said the Ticktockman,' by Harlan Ellison illustrates a futuristic society governed by time. It was originally published in paperback in 1965 by Pyramid Books. Paingod and Other Delusions is a collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison.
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