From downstairs:

re: #213 silverdolphin

I saw the premiere of A Boy and HIs Dog at Filmex in 1975. I will never forget it because Filmex had a 40 science fiction film marathon that was anchored by this movie. We forgot to bring money, everything was closed overnight and we were starving by the next day. We ate sugar and catsup packets until the stores opened.

I don’t recall where ( a large auditorium somewhere) or exactly when it was (1969?) but I attended a speech by Harlan Ellison in which he gave the audience an opportunity to select a new story of his for him to read to us — and the winner was A Boy and His Dog. Not my kind of story. His works were all intriguing but too creepy and unpleasant for my taste.