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Author: Harlan Ellison
Year: 1958
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: shortstory
Language: English
ISFDB Record Number: 56352
Note: Originally published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, December 1958 and reprinted under the title "The Forces that Crush" in the first edition of "Ellison Wonderland" and at least two printings of "Earthman Go Home".
The story was (lightly) rewritten for publication in "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World", where it appeared under the original title.
Ellison explains this in a note with the story "Back to the Drawing Boards" in "Ellison Wonderland" (the August, 1974 Signet printing Most of the later printings and editions have the rewritten version.
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- The Forces That Crush (1958) - Harlan Ellison
Publications:
- Amazing Science Fiction Stories, December 1958, (Dec 1958, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Edward Valigursky - [VERIFIED]
- Ellison Wonderland, (Jun 1962, Harlan Ellison, publ. Paperback Library, #52-149, $0.50, 191pp, pb, coll) Cover: Victor Kalin - [VERIFIED]
- Earthman, Go Home, (Dec 1964, Harlan Ellison, publ. Paperback Library, #52-508, $0.50, 191pp, pb, coll) - [VERIFIED]
- Earthman, Go Home, (Jul 1968, Harlan Ellison, publ. Paperback Library, #53-727, $0.60, 191pp, pb, coll)
- Earthman, Go Home, (Jul 1968, Harlan Ellison, publ. Paperback Library, #53-727, C$0.60, 191pp, pb, coll) - [VERIFIED]
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Jul 1969, Harlan Ellison, publ. Avon, #V2300, $0.75, 254pp, pb, coll) Cover: Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon - [VERIFIED]
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Mar 1970, Harlan Ellison, publ. Avon / SFBC, #2187, 245pp, hc, coll) Cover: Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon - [VERIFIED]
- Alone Against Tomorrow, (Mar 1971, Harlan Ellison, publ. Macmillan, $6.95, 312pp, hc, coll) Cover: Brad Johannsen - [VERIFIED]
- Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction, (Jun 1971, Harlan Ellison, publ. Macmillan / SFBC, #3345, $1.69, 277pp, hc, coll) Cover: Brad Johannsen - [VERIFIED]
- Alone Against Tomorrow, (1972, Harlan Ellison, publ. Collier Books, #01978, $1.25, 312pp, pb, coll)
- Into the Unknown, (1973, ed. Terry Carr, publ. Thomas Nelson, 0-8407-6342-5, $6.50, 192pp, hc, anth)
- Alone Against Tomorrow, (1974, Harlan Ellison, publ. Collier Books, #01978, $1.25, 312pp, pb, coll) Cover: Brad Johannsen - [VERIFIED]
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Apr 1974, Harlan Ellison, publ. Signet, #Y5870, $1.25, 254pp, pb, coll) Cover: Bob Pepper - [VERIFIED]
- The Time of the Eye, (May 1974, Harlan Ellison, publ. Panther, 0-586-03935-X, £0.35, 156pp, pb, coll) Cover: Chris Foss - [VERIFIED]
- Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction, (1976, Harlan Ellison, publ. Collier Books, 0-02-019780-2, $1.95, 312pp, pb, coll)
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Jul 1976, Harlan Ellison, publ. Millington, 0-86000-065-6, £3.50, vi+215pp, hc, coll)
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Jul 1976, Harlan Ellison, publ. Signet, #W7235, $1.50, 254pp, pb, coll) Cover: Bob Pepper - [VERIFIED]
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (1979, Harlan Ellison, publ. Pan Books, 0-330-25575-4, £0.90, 215pp, pb, coll) - [VERIFIED]
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, (Nov 1984, Harlan Ellison, publ. Bluejay Books (Bluejay Special Edition), 0-312-94027-0, $6.95, 252pp, tp, coll)
- Edgeworks 4, (Nov 1997, Harlan Ellison, publ. White Wolf Publishing, 1-56504-963-2, $21.99, 627pp, hc, omni) Cover: John K. Snyder, III