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HARLAN ELLISON

SHATTERDAY
(1980)
Acknowledgments

When the time comes to assemble the indicia matter for one of my books I am invariably
astonished at how many dear friends, wise sources and dedicated readers have lent their
encouragement, store of obscure facts, concern and, sometimes, homes in aid of the creation.
To sum them without naming them, to say, тАЬYou know who you are,тАЭ would be to demean
their invaluable gifts at precisely the moment I needed them. And so, with your indulgence, a
compendium of worthy heurists, with love and thanks: Isaac Asimov; Haskell Barkin; Keith
Berwick; Victoria Bolles; Ben Bova; Jacques Brel; Ed Jack Danon; Richard Delap; Bill
Desmond; Leo & Diane Dillon; George Alec Effinger; Lori Ellison; Audrey & Ed Ferman;
Stacy Franchild; Kelly Freas; Kenneth L. Gross; Jim Harmon; Fred Harris & Carole
Hemingway of KABC-AM, Los Angeles; Gary Hoppenstand; the Iguanacon committee of the
36th World Science Fiction Convention; Walter Koenig; Shelley Levinson; Edward London;
Barry Malzberg; Lydia Marano; Sheryl Dichter Martin; Terry Martin; Vincent McCaffrey &
the staff of the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookstore, Boston; Thomas F. Monteleon; Michael
Moorcock; Jonathan Ostrowski; Tom Owen; Ms. Eusona Parker; Sue Pounds & the staff of
The Portobello Hotel, London; Charles Ryan; Mary David Sheiner; Robert Silverberg; Julie
Simmons; Linda M. Steel; Leslie Kay Swigart; and with greater sense of loss than I can
convey, to the memory of Victoria Chen Haider, my editor at Playboy, who dies on 25 May
1979 in the crash of a DC-10 in Chicago.
Jim Blish once dedicated a book to me.

He did other things for me:
He introduced me to the music of Charles Ives, to the taste of Vander Flip, to the
urgency of avoiding the said-bookism, to the concept of the watershed, to the pleasures of
Indo-Ceylonese food.
He taught me the value of uncompromising literary criticism and the absolute
necessity for perfect grammar, and I try, Jim, God knows I try. But the most indispensable
lessons he taught were how badly I could write when I wasnтАЩt paying attention, and how I
could be king of the world when I did the work with love and courage.
Jim is gone now, but for all that, and for much more, this progress report, this book,
with respect and friendship, for

JAMES BLISH
Contents
Introduction
Jeffty is Five
HowтАЩs the Night Life on Cissalda?
Flop Sweat
Would You Do It for a Penny?
The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge
Shoppe Keeper
All the Lies That Are My Life
Django
Count the Clock that Tells the Time
In the Fourth Year of the War