583. Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits Part 1 (with Tom Gerencer)

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  Hi, I'm David Bark Hurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories.

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  And welcome to episode 583 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

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  Today on the show we'll be discussing the first nine short stories in the new book Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits.

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  And this will include spoilers for everything in the book, so just be aware of that.

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  And I'm joined today by my good friend Tom Gurenser, making his 32nd appearance on the show.

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  He's the author of the business book Think Like Google and the short story collection Intergalactic Refrigerator Repairmen Seldom Carry Cash.

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  And his popular science book How It's Made, written for the Discovery Channel is out now.

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  His middle great novel the Magic Ski Mountain will be out this month.

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  So Tom, welcome to the show.

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  Thanks Dave.

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  It's great to be back.

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  Okay, so let's start off and have you tell us about your history reading Harlan Ellison.

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  So my history reading Harlan Ellison is the same as my history reading just about any science fiction author from his day and age, which is that I was a huge science fiction geek as a kid and when I got out on my own and was reading, you know, living in an apartment, I would, I would go to these like used bookstores and I would buy paperbacks, old paperbacks that were kind of dog eared and the covers were kind of wrecked.

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  And I would find authors that I liked and then I would read more of them.

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  And Harlan Ellison I found I encountered that way through reading different anthologies and collections.

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  I don't think I ever read Dangerous Visions, which is probably going to shock you, but I think the one I read was Dreams with Sharp Teeth, I think, and I might have had Angry Candy.

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  And then I probably ran across him and other, you know, short stories of his in other, in different anthologies.

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  But I always really liked him and I always was just kind of like a little bit scared by him, by his personality.

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