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Shatterday is just a classic from Harlan Ellison, technology fiction’s many controversial writer. This assortment of sixteen experienced tales stays as important and scathing today as when it had been originally posted. Study as fanatically by intellectuals as by university students, these class-defying tales mix interesting laughter, sardonic cultural critique, and extreme self-thought; from “Jeffty Is Five,” the misfortune of an innocent kid wrenched out-of an idyllic past, to humanity’s experience with dangerously sexy aliens in “How’s the Night-Life on Cissalda?”, concluding in “Shatterday,” the black allegory of an identity-taking doppelganger changing his substandard twin. In print for the very first time since its spectacular introduction in early 1980s, this incendiary selection reestablishes its renowned writer in the cutting-edge of the short-story form.