A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff -- Errata

Changes between the limited edition and the first printing of the trade edition

Page Where on page Old Text New Text
113 Para 2 / line 8 Robert Duval Robert Duvall
P20 Lower left photo the H.P. Lovecraft award the World Fantasy Award
P20 Lower left photo depiction of Lovecraft depiction of H.P. Lovecraft
170 Para 3 / line 3 since 2002 since 1981
187 Para 5 / line 3 1962 1980
197 Para 2 / line 6 Time Cop Future Cop
206 Para 2 / Line 1 IDW Publishers IDW Publishing
207 Para 3 / Line 7 IDW Publishers IDW Publishing
215 Para 4 / last line Rover's a Dog Blood's a Rover
246 Para 2 / last line She said it like watching Deadwood. She said it was like watching Deadwood.
265 Para 2 / line 13 ((Collision of italic "book" and trailing "!")) Fixed collision: book!
277 Para 1 / Line 2 IDW Publications IDW Publishing
280 Para 3 / line 1-2 Leslie Swigert Leslie Swigart
311 Para 4 / line 4 1962 1980
342 Para 1 / Sentence 2 Characteristically, he remembers the year by what he was working on when it struck. " 'Shattered Like a Glass Goblin' was the year I had the quadruple bypass(footnote-#1). I didn't know I was having it until I sat up "I got chest pains," he says of the onset of his heart condition. "I sat up
342 Para 1 / Sentence 6 They sent me over to Cedars-Sinai, and the next morning they said 'Get this man in,' and they gave me a quadruple bypass. " He was rushed to Cedars-Sinai but, despite a series of tests and angioplasties, he continued to deny his mortality until April 14, 1996 when he finally delivered himself to medical science and underwent a quadruple bypass(footnote-#1).
342 Para 1 / Middle I should have been "I should have been
342 Footnote 1 Published in Weird Takes I, 1992. He describes his cardiac adventure in the introduction to Slippage, 1997.
382 Para 2 / line 2 Time Cop Future Cop
397 12th date in list April 24, 2014 April 24, 2012
398 Para 1 / line 4 Overlook Connection Press Subterranean Press
401 ((Index Entry)) "All the Lies That Are My Life" (1962) "All the Lies That Are My Life" (1980)
402 ((Index Entry)) Blood's a Rover 216, 303, 324, 384 Blood's a Rover 215, 216, 303, 324, 384
404 ((Index Entry)) Duval, Robert 113 Duvall, Robert 113
412 ((Index Entry)) Rover's a Dog Remove this entry (title corrected to Blood's a Rover (q.v.))
413 ((Index Entry)) "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" (1968) 342, 387 "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" (1968) 387
414 ((Index Entry)) Swigert, Leslie Swigart, Leslie
414 ((Index Entry)) Time Cop Future Cop


Changes planned for future printings/editions.

Page Where on page Old Text New Text
44 Para 6 / Line 2 would rather go the grave would rather go to the grave
49 Para 4 / penultimate line Martin O'Dell Martin Nodell
61 Para 3 / penultimate line Red Boggs Redd Boggs
70 Para 2 / lines 3,4,5 {Ted} Bales {Ted} Beale
76 Footnote 1 Riding the Rails in Utopia Riding the Rails of Atlantis
P29 2 upper right photos (blank) Credit: "Steven Barber"
131 Para 1 / last 3 lines List of four stories ((rewrite)) Only "Christopher Columbus" was in Best American Short Stories
168 Para 1 / 3rd line from end 1983 1975
184 Para 7 / line 2 The Curmudgeon in Love A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love
266 Para 2 / line 11 hungry to make it hungry to 'make it'
289 Footnote 1 1995 1985
391 Bram Stoker awards ((addition)) 2000 Superior Achievement in Other Media: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
398 End of first entry Hiram, Georgia Burton, Michigan
402 ((Index Entry)) Bales, Ted Beale, Ted
402 ((Index Entry)) Beale, Ted Move later to proper place in index
402 ((Index Entry)) Boggs, Red Boggs, Redd
403 ((Index Entry)) Burke's Law (1994-1995, tv) Burke's Law (1963-1966, tv)
406 ((Index Entry)) Grab from page 414 Future Cop
410 ((Index Entry)) Martin O'Dell Martin Nodell
410 ((Index Entry)) Martin Nodell Move earlier to proper place in index
414 ((Index Entry)) Move to page 406 Future Cop