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Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) [3] was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction [4] and for his outspoken, combative personality. [5]
Jun 29, 2018 · June 29, 2018. Harlan Ellison, a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching...
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Jun 28, 2018 · Few authors have done more for speculative fiction and for the rights of artists to get paid for their work than Harlan Ellison, a firecracker with a typewriter. He has passed away at the age...
- 'I Go to Bed Angry and I Get Up Angrier'
- 'I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream'
- Punched A Prof Who Said He Lacked Talent
- Penned One of The Best Star Trek Episodes
- Injured in Earthquake by Books
"I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning," he once said. Author Stephen King tweeted about Ellison on Thursday, saying "There was no one quite like him in American letters, and never will be." Several of Ellison's works were translated into dozens of languages. One of the best-known, A Boy and His Dog, portrays a world devastated by nu...
Some of his most popular works were surrealistic fantasies set in grisly worlds run by totalitarians and conformists. Some were humorous; many were shockingly graphic for their time. He once said he wanted his stories "to grab you by the throat and tear off parts of your body." His short story, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, is about the last hum...
He was born on May 27, 1934, in Cleveland. His youth in nearby Painesville was lonely — he and his older sister, Beverly, were among the only Jews in town and were rejected. His loud mouth and small size — as an adult he stood about 5-feet-5 — also made him a target of bullies. He attended Ohio State University but left after punching a professor w...
He received partial credit after suing the producers of the Terminatormovies that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, claiming the idea of the killer robot was stolen from his stories. Throughout his career he maintained a love-hate relationship with the TV and motion picture industry, scripting episodes for such series as The Outer Limits and the o...
Ellison also wrote from experience. For his first novel, about 1950s street gangs, he ran for 10 weeks with a Brooklyn gang. His 1997 book, Slippage, included an essay mentioning California's 1994 Northridge earthquake. The quake injured his wife, caused $200,000 in damage to his San Fernando Valley home and knocked him out when his 30,000 books we...
Jun 28, 2018 · ROBERT JABLON. The Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harlan Ellison, the prolific, pugnacious author of “A Boy and His Dog,” and countless other stories that blasted society with their...
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Jun 28, 2018 · Said the Ticktockman," and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," died in his sleep at home in Los Angeles at age 84. Like many who write short stories and novellas in genres like speculative ...
