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Mind Fields
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Attack at Dawn appears on the cover.
Author Harlan Ellison
Illustrator Jacek Yerka
Cover creative person Jacek Yerka
State United States
Language English
Genre Short stories
Publisher Morpheus International

Publication date

 1994
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 71 pp
ISBN 1-883398-03-vii
OCLC 30117410

Dewey Decimal

 759.13 20
LC Form ND955.P63 Y472 1994

Heed Fields is a volume featuring paintings by Polish painter Jacek Yerka combined with short stories and prose poems by American writer Harlan Ellison. The 34 paintings past Yerka were created beginning. Ellison and then wrote a short story based on a single painting. The exception was "Under the Landscape" which was based on 2 separate paintings.

Contents [edit]

  1. The Creation of Water
  2. Twilight in the Cupboard
  3. Amok Harvest
  4. Theory of Tension
  5. Dorsum to Nature
  6. Internal Inspection
  7. Metropolis II
  8. In the Oligocenskie Gardens
  9. Europe
  10. Fever
  11. Attack at Dawn
  12. Susan
  13. Betwixt Heaven and Hell
  14. Shed of Rebellion
  15. To Each His Own
  16. Eruption
  17. The Inquisition
  18. Beneath the Dunes
  19. The Silence
  20. Darkness Falls on the River
  21. Paradise
  22. Express Delivery
  23. The Agitators
  24. Truancy at the Swimming
  25. Ammonite
  26. Base
  27. Foraging in the Field
  28. Traffic Prohibited
  29. Afternoon with the Bros. Grimm
  30. The Catholic Barnyard
  31. Nether the Landscape (two paintings)
  32. Ellison Wonderland
  33. Please Don't Slam the Door

Paintings [edit]

The paintings in Heed Fields are typical of Yerka's style. According to Yerka, many of the paintings, including "Between Heaven and Hell" and "Attack at Dawn", draw on his childhood memories from the 1950s as their master inspiration.[1] Other paintings, such as "Amok Harvest" and "Express Delivery", describe on his experiences traveling through the Shine countryside.[1]

Yerka was responsible for the title of all but 2 of the story-paintings, which were named by Ellison.[ii] The first of these, "Susan", was named after Ellison'southward wife. Ellison also named the painting "Ellison Wonderland" later on i of his curt story collections and his domicile in California because he "was hoping that they would give [him] that painting." The painting was later given to Ellison every bit a gift soon after the book was published during an interview with Tom Snyder on The Late Belatedly Prove.

Stories [edit]

Ellison became involved with Yerka'south paintings when he was asked to write an introduction to the Listen Fields collection. According to Ellison, he establish the paintings so inspiring that he told his publishers that he wanted to write a story for each one.[3] While Ellison mostly based the narrative of each story on some attribute of the painting, this was not e'er the case. In "Attack at Dawn" for instance, the story has lilliputian to exercise with the concrete objects represented in Yerka's painting. Instead, Ellison chose to base the story on the painting's prominent themes of transformation and assail.[four]

Ellison as well wrote many of the stories to reflect subjects and themes that unremarkably occur in his piece of work. "Twilight in the Closet" and "The Silence" both prominently characteristic the themes of Jewish assimilation and the Holocaust. The former was inspired in part by Ather D. Morse's 1967 book While Six Million Died.[5] "Eruption" and "Ammonite" embody the lost city/Atlantis theme nowadays in much of Ellison's work. "City Ii" also incorporates themes from many of Ellison'due south other stories. In particular, it mixes autobiographical details with fiction in a manner similar to "All the Lies that are My Life" and other stories.[4]

Although Ellison did not follow his usual custom of writing an introduction to the volume, he did provide commentary on 17 of the stories in the class of endnotes. These notes draw the background to some of the stories, and betoken out of import themes. Yerka's son Philip died during the creation of the volume, and Ellison dedicated the terminal story "Please Don't Slam the Door" to his retention in ane of the notes.

References [edit]

  • Weil, Ellen; Wolfe, Gary K. (2002). Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever. Columbus, OH: Ohio Land Academy Press. pp. 238–241. ISBN0-8142-0892-4.

Footnotes [edit]

  1. ^ a b Yerka, Jacek (2006). "Jacek Yerka by Himself..." agra-fine art. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-12-14 .
  2. ^ Weil & Wolfe 2002, p. 239
  3. ^ Weil & Wolfe 2002, p. 238
  4. ^ a b Weil & Wolfe 2002, p. 240-241
  5. ^ Weil & Wolfe 2002, p. 196-197

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