It will also feature “one last, significant work by Harlan that has never been published, that has been seen by only a handful of people”, and will reveal why the book was delayed for so long, “a story known only to a very few people”.
Straczynski is planning to include dozens of the stories originally commissioned by Ellison, as well as work by “some of the most well-known and respected writers working today”, who are yet to be revealed. Now, television screenwriter J Michael Straczynski, who was appointed executor of Ellison’s estate after his death and that of his wife Susan earlier this year, has launched a Patreon account, where fans can pay to take part in the book’s publication process. The encyclopedia also points to “the moral dilemmas incurred by retaining purchased but unpublished stories – eventually in some cases … for close on 50 years” – a delay that so riled author Christopher Priest that he wrote and self-published a lengthy, scathing analysis titled The Last Deadloss Visions. incurred moral dilemmas by retaining purchased but unpublished stories for close on 50 years The encyclopedia notes that “a series of illnesses certainly impaired Ellison’s fitness for the huge task of annotating what had soon become an enormous project” in their study of Ellison, The Edge of Forever, Ellen Weil and Gary K Wolfe say the anthology ran to over a million words. But the work never appeared, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, it “became legendary for its many postponements”.
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