"How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" is a science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison, first published in 1977, in the first volume of the Zebra Books anthology series "Chrysalis".[1] It was subsequently reprinted in Ellison's 1980 collection Shatterday,[2] in OpZone no. 8 (1980, French language, as "Et comment sont les nuits sur Cissalda?")[3] in the 1990 Ellen Datlow-edited anthology Alien Sex,[4] and, in Italian (as "Vita notturna a Cissalda"), in Fantasex (the 1993 translation into Italian of Alien Sex) and in Idrogeno e idiozia (the 1999 translation into Italian of Shatterday).[5]
Two illustrated versions have been published: one with art by Tom Barber, in Heavy Metal in November 1977;[6] and one with art by Eric White and an adapted script by Faye Perozich, in the Dark Horse Comics-published Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, in August 1995.[7]