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David Ely is a pseudonym of David Eli Lilienthal, who wrote sf novels such as Seconds, The Tour, and A Journal of the Flood Year. His works explore themes of identity, reality, and politics in dystopian and near-future settings.
Jun 9, 2019 · David Ely’s Seconds (1962), a disquieting and sparse thriller, posits a near future where a shadow organization can grant the wealthy new identities via plastic surgery and staged deaths. Wielding deceptively simple prose, Ely ruminates on the existential dread of the male mid-life crisis–an undefined desire to escape, to redo, to break ...
David Ely has 46 books on Goodreads with 1889 ratings. David Ely’s most popular book is Cruelty.
David Ely is the author of several novels, including Seconds (which was made into a movie starring Rock Hudson), and two acclaimed short story collections. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Playboy and Kenyon Review.
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Trot: A Novel of Suspense. New York, Pantheon, 1963; London, Secker and Warburg, 1964. Seconds. New York, Pantheon, 1963; London, Deutsch, 1964. The Tour.New York, Delacorte Press, and London, Secker andWarburg, 1967. Poor Devils.Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Walking Davis.New York, Charterhouse, 1972. Mr. Nicholas.New York, Putnam, 1974; London,...
Time Out.New York, Delacorte Press, 1968; London, Secker andWarburg, 1969. Always Home and Other Stories.New York, Fine, 1991.
"The Wizard of Light," in Amazing(New York), March 1962. "The Alumni March," in Cosmopolitan(New York), 1962. "McDaniels' Flood," in Elks Magazine(Chicago), 1963. "The Captain's Boarhunt," in Saturday Evening Post(Philadelphia), 21 March 1964. "The Assault on Mount Rushmore," in Cavalier(New York), July1969. "The Carnival," in Antaeus(New York), 19...
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David Eli Lilienthal, Jr., under the pseudonym David Ely, produced a body of fiction fueled by the author’s fascination with men of power and influence who are suddenly driven to test and understand themselves in a quest to discover their true character.
