DOOMSMAN - 1958 - FROM HARLAN OR NOT ELLISON - U.S. OF A FRAGMENTA-SE EM REINOS APÓS THE THIRD WORLD WAR AMERICA STATE CRIA UMA ESCOLA DE ASSASSINOS PARA DESTRUIR OS LÍDERES DE CADA ESTADO E PERPETUAR AS LUTAS PELO PODER E ASSUMI-LO QUANDO TODOS ESTIVEREM ESTAFADOS.... ENFIM CADA UM TEM OS SISTEMAS POLÍTICOS QUE MERECE

From the back cover:

"The man Eskalyo was a threat to the America State system.

"The youth Montoya was abducted by the Seekers and taken to the School for Assassins.
What better person could they find to kill Eskalyo than his own son?

"The man Montoya began to doubt. . . doubt the system. . . doubt the School. . . But he had been trained -- brain-programmed to kill! Could Montoya strike the bloody blow that would kill the father he barely remembered?"


Juanito Montoya was a wild child of the streets until AmericaState agents, known as Seekers, captured him and brought him to the School to be trained as an assassin.
AmericaState's mission is to destroy all of the petty monarchies that had formed within its boundaries after the War.
One such target was a man known as Eskalyo.  After a mind probe, it is learned that Juanito is the son of Eskalyo and as his first assignment, he must kill the man.

However, in order to do so, Juanito must find Eskalyo.  In doing so, he learns a number of things that lead him to doubt the integrity of AmericaState and the School.
When a dying fellow agent reveals the truth in his final moments, Juanito's loyalties begin to vacillate.   What will he do when he finds Eskalyo, his father and enemy of AmericaState?
Will he kill him as he was trained to do or join him in rebellion against the almighty AmericaState?

The first few paragraphs of this novella, and a few scattered others, hold to true Ellison style.  Everything else reads as if it were a high school freshman's embryonic attempt at fiction.
 Redundant wording, clunky prose, over description of objects and settings to the point of cliché.   While the pacing was satisfactory and the story well-conceived, it is plainly and painfully obvious OR NOT WHO KNOWS....that Doomsman had been altered.

It is no wonder that Harlan was on a seek and destroy mission. who watched as Harlan purchased copies of Doomsman from fans at his autograph table and tore up the copies right on the spot.

Above: The Belmont double book of Doomsman and Telepower.......