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Michael Straczinski, the creator of Babylon 5, that I very nearly met my writing hero, Ellison.
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In the 80's Ellison was tapped to be a creative consultant on the new Twilight Zone series and also Babylon 5. This acknowledgment of his script is quite an accomplishment considering that the original Star Trek series featured some of the best of the best of television and science fiction writers. His Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" is considered to be the best in the 79 episodes of the original series, even though Ellison railed against parts of it being rewritten by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. He also wrote the film “The Oscar” starring Steven Boyd and Elke Summer which had a cameo by.Frank Sinatra.
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His novella “A Boy and His Dog” was made into a movie starring a young Don Johnson and is actually being remade now. In Hollywood, where Ellison moved in 1962, he was quickly snapped up by the hungry medium of television. He was hired as a writer at Disney Studios and fired the same day when Roy Disney heard him joking about making a porno film using Disney characters. He also sent dead gophers to various publishers with his life-long friend Robin Williams. He even once clashed with Frank Sinatra during a pool game over a pair of boots. For the rest of his life, he sent that professor copies of everything he published and newspaper clips of his numerous awards.Įllison’s hair-trigger temper and lack of sufferance for those he perceived to be fools was legendary. He was expelled from Ohio State University for hitting a professor who had dismissed and denigrated his work.
A wandering mind which pushed a wandering spirit, Ellison ran away from home frequently, taking odd jobs including on a tuna boat, crop picker, and.as an actor. This giant in scifi circles, was born to humble beginnings in Cleveland, Ohio in 1934. I’ll hit you so hard your ancestors will die.” “Call me a science fiction writer,” he proclaimed, “and I’ll come to your house and nail your pet’s head to a coffee table. He’s also produced over 100 books.Įllison hated to be called a science fiction writer preferring speculative fiction writer instead.
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His work includes 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic books, TV shows, essays, and literary criticisms. Harlan Ellison’s career spanned decades in print, film, television, articles, comic books and just about any medium that he could imprint his particular brand of horror onto including video games. I was late to Ellison but his work had that amazing impact on me that has never stopped haunting me with its brutal power. "I Have No Mouth and Must Scream" is an allegory for Hell where people are endlessly tormented by an all-powerful sentient supercomputer. That was also the title of the short story first published in 1967. The line? The one that knocked me silly.? I’d taken that step from the scifi fanboy of rockets, ray guns and Dandelion Wine, to aliens, humans - and machines - who existed for nefarious reasons that had nothing to do with our silly human values. I felt as if the world, as I knew it, had ended. I remember sitting there and actually feeling sick to my stomach. The writing was so strong, so brutal, so impactful that the last line hit me with a force that my adolescent brain couldn’t process. I remember the first time I read a Harlan Ellison story. He’s dead simple to find on Amazon because his work, thematically, is still as relevant as when it first exploded on the world in the late 60's. But if you’ve never experienced an Ellison story the good news is his work is all over the multi-media landscape and his books and short stories are still at the top of everyone’s lists. In the last few years he’s been pretty quiet because of a stroke which eventually took his life in late June.
You can be forgiven for not knowing Harlan Ellison’s name.