Harlan Ellison's Seven Against Chaos

by Harlan Ellison, Paul Chadwick

Overview

Harlan Ellison, science fiction's brightest luminary, has joined forces with multi-award winning artist Paul Chadwick, creator of the incomparable Concrete, to bring you SEVEN AGAINST CHAOS, a graphic novel that is singular, powerful and unpredictable. This extraordinary odyssey of mystery and adventure will take you to the rim of reality and beyond.

In a distant future, Earth is in grave danger: The fabric of reality itself in unraveling, leading to catastrophic natural disasters, displaced souls appearing from bygone eras, and sudden, shocking cases of spontaneous combustion. The only hope for Earth's survival is a force of seven warriors, each with his or her special abilities. But can these alien Seven Samurai learn to get along in time to find the source of the gathering chaos and save all of reality?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401247294
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	07/16/2013
Sold by:	DC Comics
Format:	eBook
File size:	104 MB
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About the Author

Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books; more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns; two dozen teleplays, for which he received the Writers Guild of America most outstanding teleplay award for solo work an unprecedented four times; and a dozen movies. He won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award twice, the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker award six times (including The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Nebula three times, the Hugo 8 1/2 times, and received the Silver Pen for Journalism from P.E.N. Not to mention The World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, two Audie Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and a Grammy nomination for Spoken Word recordings.

He created great fantasies for The Twilight Zone (including Danny Kaye's final performance) and The Outer Limits; was credited as creative consultant on Babylon 5; sued Paramount and ABC-TV for plagiarism and won $337,000--and probably is the most contentious person now walking the Earth.

Date of Birth:

May 27, 1934

Date of Death:

June 28, 2018

Place of Birth:

Cleveland, OH

Place of Death:

Los Angeles, CA

Editorial Reviews

Ferociously intelligent and extremely ambitious, this graphic novel adapts the format of Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven to space opera: a wildly diverse assortment of characters must work together to save vulnerable bystanders. As usual, the saviors are outcasts—a renegade robot, a despised mutant, a brutalized slave, etc., while the potential victims are the bulk of callous humanity. To avert a shift in realities that is causing people to burst into flames or transform into snakes, the crew of misfits must travel far back into prehistory, to the time when mammals and reptiles fought to dominate the young Earth. The art by Chadwick (Concrete) differentiates the many characters, adding clean details and exemplary storytelling. The book really comes to life toward the end when the characters must argue against a lizard-man's coldly logical plans to obliterate human history. As in much of his work, Ellison's rage at humanity's many sins must be balanced by his grim, desperate hope for our potential. A throwback to both classic SF and classic comics, this graphic novel updates both just enough to make it a real treat. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"Ferociously intelligent and extremely ambitious..."—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Harlan Ellison:

"[Ellison has] the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind."—The New York Times Book Review

"It's long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: 20th century Lewis Carroll."—Los Angeles Times

"One of the great living American short story writers."—Washington Post Book World

"One thing's for sure: the man can write."—Booklist

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