''Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the Ticktockman Summary
Harlan Ellison

''Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the Ticktockman Summary

Harlan Ellison's short story, "Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," first appeared in Galaxy magazine in December 1965, and earned Ellison both a Hugo and a Nebula award in 1966. The story was first collected in Paingod and Other Delusions in 1965, and has been frequently anthologized over the years, appearing in Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966) and The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective (2001) among other anthologies. Indeed, the story has been anthologized more than 160 times since its...

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