Series
Vic and Blood
Harlan Ellison & Richard Corben · 1 novella · 4 short stories · 3 collections · 1969–2018
A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The original 1969 novella was adapted into the 1975 film A Boy and His Dog directed by L.Q. Jones.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Vic and Blood at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s3
Shape
1 novella · 4 short stories · 3 collections
2 authors · completed series
reads like:post-apocalypticsurvivalnorth americafar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- A Boy and His Dogdarkest · calmest
- Vic and Bloodbrightest
- Eggsuckermost intense