The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works

Summary

In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Vic wanders the wasteland with Blood, hisgenetically-altered telepathic dog, in a struggle for survival against violent marauders, deadlyradioactive insects, and an underground community desperate to restore the human race in theHugo Award–nominated and Nebula Award–winning novella, “A Boy and His Dog,”—thebasis of the cult classic film.An intergalactic conspiracy infects the minds of the most powerful politicians in theRepublican Party—and only one jolly old elf can save them in “Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.”And in the Hugo Award–winning title story, disparate threads of violence, conflict, andconversation weave an intricate tapestry across worlds and times in an experimental tour-deforce of the imagination.This groundbreaking collection brings together some of Harlan Ellison’s most innovativeand intriguing stories, frightening and funny visions of human nature that can only come fromthe peerless Grand Master of Science Fiction.