The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
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The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a short story
collection by Harlan Ellison
published in 1969. It contains one of the author's most famous stories, "A Boy and His Dog", adapted into a film of the same name
. "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
, while "A Boy and His Dog" was nominated for the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novella
.
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collection by Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
published in 1969. It contains one of the author's most famous stories, "A Boy and His Dog", adapted into a film of the same name
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives and films including or stemming from works of science fiction author Harlan Ellison.Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version was published in Ellison's story collection The Beast...
. "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
Hugo Award for Best Short Story
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
, while "A Boy and His Dog" was nominated for the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Hugo Award for Best Novella
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
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Contents
- "Introduction: The Waves in Rio"
- "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (short story)"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969.-Publication history:...
- "Along the Scenic Route"
- "Phoenix"
- "Asleep: With Still Hands"
- "Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R."
- "Try a Dull Knife"
- "The Pitll Pawob Division"
- "The Place With No Name"
- "White on White"
- "Run for the Stars"
- "Are You Listening?"
- "S.R.O."
- "Worlds to Kill"
- "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin"
- "A Boy and His DogA Boy and His DogA Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives and films including or stemming from works of science fiction author Harlan Ellison.Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version was published in Ellison's story collection The Beast...
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See also
- "Take care of yourself." − the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, whose JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
title translates as "The Beast that Shouted I at the Heart of the World." The word used for "I" (a borrowingLoanwordA loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...
of the EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
word) is a homophoneHomophoneA homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose and rose , or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too. Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms...
of the Japanese for "love."