Harlan Jay Ellison (natural May 27, 1934) is a prolific writer of short stories, novellas, essays and criticism. His literary & television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of Star Trek, edited the award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions and served as originative adviser to the science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone (1980s version) and Babylon 5.

Much of Ellison's career has been spent within a science fiction genre and community. Virtually all of his best known stories keep close at h& been published inside that genre, and he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. He was besides super active in the science fiction community (he was a founder of the Cleveland Science Fiction Society and edited its fanzine as a teenager), & has mass produced appearances at science fiction conventions. Yet, Ellison is disdainful of the label, explaining that his fiction is closer to surrealist fantasy or magical realism than science fiction.

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Ellison was natural within Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on May 27, 1934. His Jewish-American family subsequently moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 following the dying of Ellison's father. Ellison ofttimes ran out of house, ingesting odd jobs — including, by his have account, "a tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, dynamite truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and spent ten years as an actor (off and on) with the Cleveland Play House" by the time he was 18.

Ellison briefly attended Ohio State University before dropping out. Around 1955, Ellison moved to New York City to pursue a writing career, primarily around science fiction. All over a next ii years, Ellison published additional than Century short stories & articles.

Within 1957, Ellison decided to write about youth gangs. To search the issue, he joined a street gang in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, under the title "Cheech Beldone". His subsequent writings on a subject include the novel Web of the City/Rumble, the collection The Deadly Streets, and comprise section of his nonfiction memoir Memos from Purgatory.

Ellison was drafted into a army and served from 1957 to 1959. After, sleep in Chicago, Illinois, Ellison edited Rogue magazine. As a book editor at Regency Books, Ellison published novels and anthologies by such writers as B. Traven, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Bloch and Philip José Farmer.

He moved to California in 1962, and afterwards began to sell scripts to such tv show when ''Burke's Law, Route 66, The Outer Limits, Star Trek and Cimarron Strip. His novelette Memos from Purgatory was adapted into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. Ellison's scripts "Demon With a Glass Hand" (for The Outer Limits) and "The City on the Edge of Forever" (for Star Trek) won Best Original Teleplay awards from either a Writer's Guild of America.

In a period of the late 1960s, Ellison wrote a column all about television for the Los Angeles Free Press. Highborn The Glass Teat, a column addressed political & social issues & their portrayal in television at the period. A columns stand been reprinted within 2 collections, The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat.

He continued to publish short pieces, fiction & nonfictional prose, around various publications, & a select few of his best known stories were written inside this time period. "'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman" occurs as celebration of civil disobedience against repressive authority. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is an allegory of Hell, where 5 human being come tormented by an everthing-omniscient computer throughout eternity. "A Boy and his Dog" examines the nature & severity of friendly relationship and love within a violent, post-Apocalypse world. A Boy and His Dog was made into the film inside 1975 starring Don Johnson.

He has won a Hugo Award eight and a half days; the Nebula Award three times; a Bram Stoker Award, presented by the Horror Writers Association, five days (including a Lifetime Achievement Award around 1996); a Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice; the Georges Melies fantasy film award twice; and was awarded a Silver Pen for Journalism by International PEN, the international writers' union. He was presented using a number one Residing Legend Award per International Horror Guild at the 1995 World Horror Convention. He is besides a merely creator inside Hollywood ever to win a Writers' Guild of United states Award for Virtually all Spectacular Teleplay (solo act) 4 days, last for "Paladin of the Lost Hour" in 1987. Inside March 1998, the National Women's Committee of Brandeis University honored him with their 1998 Words, Wit, Wisdom award. Within 1990, Ellison was honored by International PEN for continuing commitment to artistic freedom & a battle against censorship.

The like illustrious & popular film can also become credited to Ellison, though he experienced to attend court for it. A select few aspects of the story for "The Terminator" were sufficiently similar to two episodes of the TV series A Outer Restricts — each episodes written by Harlan Ellison — that Ellison sued James Cameron. James Cameron admitted within an locate that Ellison's act inspired a motion-picture show. Cameron settled away from court & acknowledged Ellison's act in the film's credits by using a prevent credit stating only: "Acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison." A episodes around wonder were known as "Soldier" & "Demon With A Glass Hand".

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" was turned into the computer game with Ellison providing the voice of the of the god-computer AM.

He as well edited a pleasantly influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions (1967), which collected stories commissioned by Ellison, accompanied by his commentary-laden biographic sketches of the authors. He challenged a authors to write stories at a edge of the genre, & Dangerous Visions is widely considered a greatest & virtually all influential SF anthology ever. Numerous of a stories went beyond the traditional boundaries of science fiction pioneered by respected old school editors such as John W. Campbell, Jr. As an editor, Ellison was influenced and inspired by experimentation in the popular literature of the time, such as the beats. The sequel, Again Dangerous Visions, was published inside 1972. A third volume, The Endure Dangerous Visions, has eventually to view print, & a delay has created a select few disceptation (look at beneath).

A screenplay for his projected television series The Starlost was also given the Writers Guild Award, though a actual series was and then altered per producers that Ellison experienced his title flushed from either the credits. Ellison was a foremost writer to win this award 3 days.

Ellison served when originative advisor to the science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone (1980s version) & Babylon 5. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), he has voiceover credits for shows including Pirates of Darkwater, Mother Goose and Grimm, Space Cases, Phantom 2040, and Babylon 5, when well as making an onscreen appearance in the Babylon Quintuplet episode "The Face of the Enemy" (Episode: #4.Seventeen).

For ii years beginning around 1986, Ellison took over when hikers of the radio program Hour 25 on KPFK after the demise of Mike Hodel, the indicate's founder & original hikers. It has been reported that his inadverdant apply of an expletive in air induced his departure from either a indicate.

Ellison's 1992 novelette "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" was selected for inclusion in the 1993 edition of The Right Western Short Stories.

He was hired as a writer for Walt Disney Studios, but was fired in his 1st day after existence overheard by Roy O. Disney in the studio commissary joking about making a pornographic animated film featuring Disney characters. He recounted this incident around his book Stalking the Nightmare, as the portion Trey of a subdivision entitled "The 3 Most Important Things in Life".

He does everthing his write of personal, contrast Olympia typewriter.

He is presently married to Susan—his fifth married woman—& it sleep in Los Angeles, California.

Within 1994 he suffered the heart attack & was hospitalized for quadruple bypass surgery.

Controversy

Ellison has the reputation for existence outspoken & abrasive, & he is fiercely hard of his function. When numerous humans, including Ellison himself, use at times said, he doesn't suffer fools fain. These traits keep close at h& attracted the degree of contention, especially among science fiction and fantasy fans. His friend Isaac Asimov remarked of Ellison that "Harlan uses his gifts for colorful and variegated invective on those who irritate him—intrusive fans, obdurate editors, callous publishers, offensive strangers." His outspoken ways found him the spot on the fledgling Sci-Fi Channel where he was given an opportunity to express his views in whatever he chose to talk just about. Ellison's segments, of which a few transcripts come available, were broadcast from either 1994 to 1997.

When Guest of Honor at a 1978 WorldCon (Iguanacon) in Phoenix, Arizona, Ellison vowed that he would non make inside a state which got not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. When you took the convention, he utilized the r.v. instead of staying around a convention hotel. He was besides the participant in the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King, Jr..

A Survive Dangerous Visions, a third volume of the anthology series, hwhen turn into something of a legend inside science fiction as the genre's best known unpublished book. Originally proclaimed for publication around 1973, more function demanded Ellison's attention & a anthology has non seen print up to now. He has came under criticism for his professional assistance of a bit of writers world health organization submitted their stories to him, of which a select few estimate to exist as about 150 (numbers of of a authors stand died in the subsequent tercet decades since the anthology was foremost announced). Around 1993 Ellison threatened to sue New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) for publishing Himself in Anachron, the short story written by Cordwainer Smith and sold to Ellison for the book by his widow, [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/a76.html#harlan] however late reached an amicable personal injury settlement. [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/a77.html] Noted British SF creator Christopher Priest has critiqued Ellison's editorial practices in the widely-disseminated article titled The Book on the Edge of Forever. [http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest] It should exist as noted that this was the function of a writer world health organization can be dissatisfied per rejection of his submission to the book. Ellison has the record of fulfilling obligations around more cases, including to writers whose stories he solicited, & has expressed outrage at more editors world health organization use displayed unfortunate practices.

In the Eighties, there was the widely-publicized incident where Ellison allegedly assaulted creator & critic Charles Platt at the Nebulthe Awards banquet over the critical comment Platt mass produced just about a anxious editor when the editor was existence honored at a convention. Platt did non pursue legal action against Ellison, & them men signed the "non-aggression pact" late, promising never to discuss a incident once more or even use at times any email by using of these an additional. Inside afterwards years, even so, Ellison typically publicly boasted just about a incident. Platt, as well, has been to a lesser degree absolute inside adhering to the agreement. This story is apocryphal & while forgoing any substantiation by victims world health organization claim it happened; we.e., court outbreak cost, documentation, etc.

Ellison wear occasion utilized a pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird" to alert members of the public to situations in which he feels his originative contribution to the design has been mangled beyond repair by others, usually Hollywood producers or even studios. (Understand, e.g., Alan Smithee.) The "Cordwainer Bird" nickname occurs as tribute to fellow SF writer Paul M. The. Linebarger, better known by his nom de plume, Cordwainer Smith. A origin of the word "cordwainer" is shoemaker (from either working sustaining cordovan leather for shoes). A term utilized by Linebarger was intended to indicate a industry of the pulp author. Ellison has said, inside interviews & inside his writing, that his version of the nom de guerre was intended to mean "a shoemaker for birds". Since he has utilized a nom de guerre principally for works he wants to few feet away himself from either, it can be understood to mean that "this work is for the birds". Stephen King once said he thought that it meant that Ellison was returning population world health organization mangled his function the literary version of "the bird".

Ellison recently gained attention for his April 24, 2000 lawsuit against Stephen Robertson for posting four of his stories to the Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book forswearing authorization. Involved when suspect in the suit were AOL and RemarQ, internet service providers whose involvement was running Usenet servers carrying a class action witharound wonder & for failing to prevent a alleged right of first publication infringers in accordance by using a "Notice and Takedown Procedure" outlined in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Robertsin & RemarQ settled a case by using Ellison, though he pressed on sustaining his lawsuit against AOL. A AOL lawsuit was settled around June 2004 under conditions which were not processed public.

Books of short stories

A Touch of Infinity Children of the Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Paingod and Other Delusions I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream From the Land of Fear ''Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (fiction and nonfiction) The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Over the Edge Partners in Wonder (collaborations with Xiv more writers) Alone Against Tomorrow Approaching Oblivion Deathbird stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Slippage

The Essential Ellison

Novels

Rumble (also titled Web of the City) The Sound of a Scythe Spider Kiss (originally titled Rockabilly) Doomsman The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes (adaptation by Edward Bryant of Ellison's pilot script)

Published screenplays and teleplays

I, Robot (with Isaac Asimov) (unrelated to the 2004 movie starring Will Smith) City on the Edge of Forever (Star Trek episode, original screenplay, with comment) View besides Phoenix while forgoing Ashes, a novelisation by Edward Bryant of the screenplay for the pilot episode of The Starlost, which includes a drawn-out afterword by Ellison describing what happened in the production of that series.

Nonfiction

Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat (essays on television, 1968-1970) The Other Glass Teat (essays on television, 1970-1972) Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed ''Harlan Ellison's Watching An Edge in My Voice The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

Anthologies edited

Dangerous Visions 1967 (ISBN 0743452615) Note: This book has too been issued within the 3-volume paperbacked edition. Nightshade and Damnations: the finest stories of Gerald Kersh Again Dangerous Visions 1972 (ISBN 0425061825) Note: This book has too been issued within the both-volume paperbacked edition Medea: Harlan's World'' (1985; ISBN 0932096360): an experiment in collaborative science-fictional world-building, featuring contributions by Hal Clement, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. LeGuin and others.

Selected short stories

"The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" "A Boy and his Dog" (made into the film) "The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel" "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" "Jeffty Is Five" "Knox" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" """Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" "Soldier": filmed as an Outer Limits episode. The film The Terminator had sufficient story element similarities to it (and also to another Outer Limits episode, "Demon With the Glass Hand") that Ellison filed a lawsuit against James Cameron. Later prints of the film acknowledge the debt to Ellison. "Try a Dull Knife" "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs"

Awards won

Bradbury award

The Bradbury Award in 2000 went to Harlan Ellison and Yuri Rasovsky.

Bram Stoker Award

The Essential Ellison (best collection, 1987) ''Harlan Ellison's Watching (best non-fiction, 1989—tie) Mefisto in Onyx (best novella, 1993—tie) Chatting With Anubis (best short story, 1995) Life achievement award, 1995 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (best other media—audio, 1999)

Hugo Award

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (best short fiction, 1966) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (best short story, 1968) City on the Edge of Forever (best dramatic presentation, 1968) Dangerous Visions (special award, 1968) The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (best short story, 1969) Again, Dangerous Visions (special award for excellence in anthologizing, 1972) The Deathbird (best novelette, 1974) Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (better novella, 1975) Jeffty is Five (best short story, 1978) Paladin of the Lost Hour (best novella, 1986)

Locus Poll Award

The Region Between (best short fiction, 1970) Basilisk (best short fiction, 1972) Again, Dangerous Visions (best anthology, 1972) The Deathbird (best short fiction. 1974) Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' Xiii" W (best novelette, 1975) Croatoan (best short story, 1976) Jeffty Is Five (best short story, 1978) Count the Clock That Tells the Time (best short story, 1979) Djinn, No Chaser (best novellette, 1983) Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (best related non-fiction, 1985) Medea: Harlan's World (best anthology, 1986) Paladin of the Lost Hour (best novelette, 1986) With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (best short story, 1986) Angry Candy (best collection, 1989) The Function of Dream Sleep (best novellette, 1989) Eidolons (best short story, 1989) Mefisto in Onyx (best novella, 1994) Slippage (best collection, 1998)

Nebula Award

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (best short story, 1965) A Boy and His Dog (best novella, 1969) Jeffty is Five (best short story, 1977)

Additional reading

California Sorcery'', edited by William F. Nolan and William Schafer