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 that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World the same year. Ellison continued the story in Vic and Blood, a graphic novel illustrated by Richard Corbe...
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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 that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World the same year. Ellison continued the story in Vic and Blood, a graphic novel illustrated by Richard Corben, who also illustrated two previously published short stories featuring Vic and Blood: "Eggsucker" and "Run, Spot, Run".
Ellison's expanded novella was the basis of a film adaptation in 1974, the post-apocalyptic science fiction film of the same name, directed by L. Q. Jones. (The film was also distributed after its initial run under several other titles, including Psycho Boy and His Killer Dog, Mad Don, and Apocalypse: 2024.)
The novella and the film adaptation have the same alternate timeline setting. In this, President John F. Kennedy...
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