In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Vic wanders the wasteland with Blood, his

genetically-altered telepathic dog, in a struggle for survival against violent marauders, deadly

radioactive insects, and an underground community desperate to restore the human race in the

Hugo Award–nominated and Nebula Award–winning novella, “A Boy and His Dog,”—the

basis of the cult classic film.

An intergalactic conspiracy infects the minds of the most powerful politicians in the

Republican 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, and

conversation 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 innovative

and intriguing stories, frightening and funny visions of human nature that can only come from

the peerless Grand Master of Science Fiction.