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APPROACHING OBLIVION

Road Signs
On the
Treadmill
Toward Tomorrow

Eleven Uncollected Stories by HARLAN ELLISON

Foreward by Michael Crichton
Copyright © by Harlan Ellison


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I didn’t do it alone. Others helped. Some in tiny ways they won’t even remember. Others with
encouragement, assistance, research and love. They will remember. Robert Silverberg, Jack Dann, Vicky
Schochet, Stephanie Bernstein, Steve Herbst, Andrea Hart, Ben Bova, Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Joe
Haldeman, Ed Bryant, Jim Sutherland, Sam Walker, Helen D’Allesandro Hecht, Leo & Diane Dillon, Lynn
Lehrhaupt, Art Frankel, Jim Wnoroski, Ed Ferman, Toby Roxburgh, Tim Seldes and Mike Seidman. And
Leslie Kay Swigart, because I forgot to acknowledge her help with Again, Dangerous Visions. And, of
course, as always, Bob Mills, and Marty Shapiro, who are due for sainthood momentarily. Gypsy da Silva
copy edited this book in its manuscript stage with grace and insight and an attention to the primacy of the
writer’s creation that is rare as black diamonds in the publishing industry; and I love her shamelessly for it.
Special thanks are due Lynda Mitchell, but that’s none of your business.


To the memory of
WALTER FULTZ,
the first editor to buy a book
from me; a good man, a fine editor,
a friend…

Who approached oblivion,
passed through it, and is gone,
for what reasons I do not know…

Though I saw him seldom,
I miss him greatly…

With luck, he’s found peace
at last.

CONTENTS
APPROACHING ELLISON
REAPING THE WHIRL WIND
1 KNOX
2 COLD FRIEND
3 KISS OF FIRE
4 PAULIE CHARMED THE SLEEPING WOMAN
 5 I'M LOOKING FOR KADAK