A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog is a novella by Harlan Ellison. It originally appeared in New Worlds, #189 April 1969. Most subsequent publications include an expanded edition of the original. The story can be found in the anthologies: World's Best Science Fiction: 1970, edited by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim; Nebula Award Stories Five (1970), edited by James Blish; As Tomorrow Becomes Today (1974) edited by Charles W. Sullivan; They Came from Outer Space (1981) edited by Jim Wynorski; The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor; Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead (1985) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Dogtales! (1988) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois; The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova. It is included in the collections: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969); The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987); Vic and Blood (2009); The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).