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Revision as of 12:42, 6 March 2005 by Nikai (talk | contribs) (→External links: fmt)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934, Cleveland, Ohio) is a prolific speculative fiction writer of short stories, novellas, and criticism. His literary and 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 creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone (1980s version) and Babylon 5.
Ellison is active in the science fiction community, sometimes appearing at science fiction conventions.
Books of Short Stories
- Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
- Deathbird stories
- The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
- Approaching Oblivion
- Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled (fiction and nonfiction)
- Strange Wine
- Shatterday
- Stalking the Nightmare
- Angry Candy
- Slippage
Novels
- Spider Kiss
- Rumble (also titled Web of the City)
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 commentary)
See also Phoenix without Ashes, the novelization by Edward Bryant of the screenplay for the pilot episode of The Starlost, which includes a lengthy 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)
- Harlan Ellison's Watching
Anthologies edited
- Dangerous Visions 1967 (ISBN 0425061760)
- Dangerous Visions 2
- Dangerous Visions 3 (ISBN 0722132999)
- Again Dangerous Visions 1972 (ISBN 0425061825)
- 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 a 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
- 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 that Ellison filed a lawsuit against James Cameron. Later prints of the film acknowledge the debt to Ellison.
- 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 (best novelette, 1975)
- Jeffty is Five (best short story, 1978)
- Paladin of the Lost Hour (best novelette, 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' 13" 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
External links
- Ellison Webderland – official homepage
- Harlan Ellison at IMDb
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Disney (Harlan Ellison)