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The City on the Edge of Forever

Harlan Ellison

First published January 1976
Type Short Fiction

"The City on the Edge of Forever" is a teleplay script written by Harlan Ellison under commission from Gene Roddenberry for the TV series "Star Trek". This version never aired. Per Ellison's introduction in the collection Six Science Fiction Plays, "[This] original version won the Writers Guild award as the best dramatic-episode teleplay of the 1967-68 season. ... I'm permitting the script in its original version to be published here for the first time anywhere .... Here it is, unedited, intact, just as I wrote it back in 1966."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1976 Cover Six Science Fiction Plays Washington Square Press Anthology 5
December 1995 Cover The City on the Edge of Forever Borderlands Press Collection 101
September 1996 Cover Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay That Became the Classic Star Trek Episode Borealis Legends / White Wolf Publishing Collection 111
June 2012 Cover The City on the Edge of Forever Gateway / Orion Collection |4
April 2014 Cover The City on the Edge of Forever Open Road Integrated Media Collection |4
June 2014 Cover The City on the Edge of Forever Open Road Integrated Media Collection |4
March 2015 Cover The City on the Edge of Forever IDW Publishing Chapbook