<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">“A LIT FUSE,” LONG-AWAITED</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">HARLAN ELLISON BIOGRAPHY,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">SETS PUBLICATION DATE</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">SOMERVILLE, MA -- NESFA Press, the publishing arm of the New England Science Fiction Association, announces the publication of A LIT FUSE: THE PROVOCATIVE LIFE OF HARLAN ELLISON, AN EXPLORATION BY NAT SEGALOFF. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Written over the course of five years, consisting of exhaustive and exclusive interviews with Ellison, his colleagues, his family, his friends, and his enemies, A LIT FUSE will be published in a 500-copy limited special edition this fall (2016). The limited edition is now available for pre-order at $75 from NESFA Press. A general hardcover edition is expected by early Spring, 2017. The slipcased special limited edition will include features not available in the general edition.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>“A LIT FUSE is authorized, but that doesn’t mean it’s a hagiography,” says Segaloff. “The first thing Harlan told me when we started our adventure was that he wanted me to write the truth. Considering that that’s what Harlan himself has been doing for the last sixty-five years, I had a clear mandate.”</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tracing the fractious Ellison’s life and career – and including, for the first time with permission, excerpts from his work – the biography explores his fears, his demons, and his doubts as well as his principles, his hopes, and his triumphs. “It is, without question, the most vulnerable and intimate he has ever allowed himself to appear in print,” Segaloff says. “This is a portrait of the man and his intensely personal creative process, not the usual list of lawsuits, melees, or tantrums, although they’re in here, too.”</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Those interviewed include Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, David Gerrold, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, J. Michael Straczynski, Robert Silverberg, Paul Krassner, and Walter Koenig. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Of particular note are an analysis of the Connie Willis controversy, the infamous dead gopher story, allegedly pushing a fan down an elevator shaft, and the final word on THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>“NESFA Books is honored to be publishing A LIT FUSE,” says editor David G. Grubbs. “So much has been written about Harlan Ellison without Harlan’s input that we finally have the man himself on record. This will be a revelation, even to people who know him.”</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Information and order forms for A LIT FUSE can be found at <a href="http://www.nesfapress.org/Books/Segaloff.html" target="_blank">http://www.nesfapress.org/<wbr>Books/Segaloff.html</a>.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Contact:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>NESFA Press</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:sales@nesfa.org" target="_blank">sales@nesfa.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="tel:617-625-2311" value="+16176252311" target="_blank">617-625-2311</a></div>
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