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The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.

Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, Alberto Mielgo, Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller, John Scalzi, Bruce Sterling, and Michael Swanwick.

Full contents:

“Automated Customer Service” by John Scalzi“Ice” by Rich Larson“Pop Squad” by Paolo Bacigalupi“Snow in the Desert” by Neal Asher“The Tall Grass” by Joe R. Lansdale“All Through the House” by Joachim Heijndermans“Life Hutch” by Harlan Ellison“The Drowned Giant” by J. G. Ballard“Three Robots: Human Habitats” by John Scalzi“Bad Travelling” by Neal Asher“The Very Pulse of the Machine” by Michael Swanwick“Night of the Mini-Dead” by Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller “Kill Team Kill” by Justin Coates“Swarm” by Bruce Sterling“Mason’s Rats” by Neal Asher“In Vaulted Halls Entombed” by Alan Baxter“Jibaro” by Alberto Mielgo“Three Robots: Two Versions Intro” by John Scalzi“Three Robots Report Back on the Habitats in Which Humanity Chose to See Out Its Final Days” by John Scalzi

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms

Science Fiction Stories of the Future from the Past

Narrated by Joseph Tabler

“The Automatic Maid of All Work” by M. L. Campbell originally published in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature for July, 1893.

“Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” by Elizabeth W. Bellamy originally published in The Black Cat, December, 1899.

“Mr. Meek—Musketeer” by Clifford D. Simak originally published in Planet Stories, Summer, 1944.

“Mr. Meek Plays Polo” by Clifford D. Simak originally published in Planet Stories, Fall, 1944.

“In the Year Ten Thousand” by William Harben originally published in The Arena Vol. VI, 1892.

“Service with a Smile” by Charles L. Fontenay originally published in If Worlds of Science Fiction, June, 1958.

“Family Tree” by Charles L. Fontenay originally published in If Worlds of Science Fiction, December, 1956.

“Glow Worm” by Harlan Ellison originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, February, 1956.

All stories are in the public domain, read from Project Gutenberg.

"The Region Between" first appeared in Galaxy back in 1970. It had originally been commissioned as one of a set of stories by different authors who all used a common starting point as set out in the story''s prologue, written by Keith Laumer. Ellison''s contribution was a longer work than one usually expects from him, but it nevertheless sustains its bombardment of ideas and feelings throughout. What''s more, Ellison created a story that demanded a different format to allow for full expression. The result was a typesetter''s nightmare but, as you will see, the experience now only makes this story all the more fascinating, it actually takes you into the story itself.Mike Ashley

Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author''s early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All the Sounds of Fear," "The Sky Is Burning," "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman," and "In Lonely Lands." Though they stand tall on their own merits, they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than fifty years later.

From one of the most highly celebrated and dynamic American writers of our time, comes Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison’s electrifying novel of the early years of rock and roll.

If you think the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell.

“Get it straight right now: these aren’t kids playing games of war. They mean business. They are junior-grade killers and public enemies one through five thousand.”

In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks, and broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out—but you can’t just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price.

First published more than half a century ago and inspired by the author’s real-life experience going undercover inside a street gang, Web of the City was Harlan Ellison’s first novel and marked the long-form debut of one of the most electrifying, unforgettable, and controversial voices of twentieth-century letters. Appearing here with the short story “No Game for Children,” which Ellison wrote for the pulp magazines of the 1950s, Web of the City offers both a snapshot of a lost era and a portrait of violence and grief as timely as today’s most brutal headlines. Includes an introduction read by the author.

Also includes the 1959 short story “No Game for Children”

The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an “eviscerated” version—which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series’ history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966–67 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award.

The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the listener on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future, all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe—or his one true love.

This edition makes available the astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author’s introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a “fatally inept treatment” of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?

In a world where humans have just made contact with advanced Martians, a stunning cosmic television broadcast promises to change Earth forever. As the "Big Show" reveals the Martians'' utopian society, it challenges Earthlings'' ideas about everything from technology to morality. Television producer Roy Mallory and his beautiful assistant Edith find themselves at the center of this cultural awakening. Will the revelations from Mars uplift humanity, or will long-held hang-ups prove too difficult to overcome?

Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines.

Now, his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, Gene Wolfe, Guy Davenport, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, Thomas M. Disch, and dozens of others. This is a volume every lover of fantasy will need to own.