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Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)

Author of Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories

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About the Author

Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 27, 1934. He was the author of numerous short story collections including Strange Wine; The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World; Harlan Ellison's Watching; Deathbird Stories; Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman; I Have No Mouth and show more I Must Scream; and Stalking the Nightmare: Stories and Essays. He received numerous awards including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer's Association, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011. He published two collections of his columns on television for the Los Angeles Free Press entitled The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. He edited several anthologies including Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories and Medea: Harlan's World. He received the Milford Award for Lifetime Achievement in Editing. He also wrote scripts for TV series including Burke's Law, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He served as creative consultant on the new version of The Twilight Zone in the 1980s and as conceptual consultant on Babylon 5. He won the Writer's Guild of America's Award for Most Outstanding Teleplay four times. He died on June 27, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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In 2005, Harlan Ellison filed for a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark office. Officially, Harlan Ellison® is a registered trademark of The Kilimanjaro Corporation.

Image credit: Photo taken at DragonCon, September 2004, by Keith Cramer

Series

Works by Harlan Ellison

Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Editor; Contributor — 1,894 copies
Deathbird Stories (1975) 1,462 copies
Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) — Editor — 983 copies
Angry Candy (1988) 884 copies
Shatterday (1980) 783 copies
Strange Wine (1978) 751 copies
Approaching Oblivion (1974) — Author — 693 copies
Ellison Wonderland (1962) 657 copies
Paingod and Other Delusions (1965) 606 copies
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories (1997) — Introduction, some editions — 540 copies
Stalking the Nightmare (1982) 533 copies
Alone Against Tomorrow (1971) — Author — 515 copies
The Glass Teat (1970) 494 copies
Partners in Wonder (1971) — Author — 463 copies
Spider Kiss (1961) 367 copies
The Other Glass Teat (1975) 315 copies
Harlan Ellison's Watching (1988) 303 copies
Web of the City (1958) 300 copies
Medea: Harlan's World (1985) 286 copies
Memos From Purgatory (1961) 281 copies
No Doors, No Windows (1974) 279 copies
Again, Dangerous Visions 2 (1972) 278 copies
Phoenix Without Ashes (1975) 267 copies
From the land of fear (1967) 266 copies
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967) — Editor; Contributor — 263 copies
Again, Dangerous Visions 1 (1972) 256 copies
The Deadly Streets (1975) 215 copies
Dangerous Visions 2 (1901) — Editor; Introduction — 202 copies
Vic and Blood (1989) 198 copies
Five Fates (1970) 186 copies
Dangerous Visions 3 (1967) — Editor; Introduction — 184 copies
Mefisto in Onyx [short fiction] (1993) — Author — 175 copies
City on the Edge of Forever [photo comic] (1977) — Author — 163 copies
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) 144 copies
The Time of the Eye (1971) 119 copies
Over the Edge (1618) 98 copies
Night and the Enemy (1987) 93 copies
All the Sounds of Fear (1971) 92 copies
Can & Can'tankerous (2015) 84 copies
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos (2013) — Author — 84 copies
Run for the Stars/Echoes of Thunder (1991) — Contributor — 60 copies
Doomsman / Telepower (1958) 59 copies
Children of the Streets (1961) 48 copies
A Boy and His Dog [1975 film] (1989) — Author — 43 copies
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special #1 (1995) — Author — 43 copies
Demon with a glass hand (1986) 42 copies
Blood's a Rover (2018) 32 copies
The Book of Ellison (1978) 32 copies
Hulk: Heart of the Atom (1601) 25 copies
Harlan Ellison's Movie (1990) 22 copies
Run for the Stars (2005) 21 copies
Ensamvärk (1992) 20 copies
Pulling a Train (2012) 19 copies
The Green Hornet Chronicles (2010) — Contributor — 18 copies
This Book Needs No Introduction By Harlan Ellison (2019) — Author — 16 copies
Dangereuses Visions Tome 1 (1975) 15 copies
X-Men: Heroes for Hope (1980) 15 copies
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Issue 3 (1995) — Author — 14 copies
The Ellison Treatment (2019) — Author — 14 copies
The Ephemeral Ellison (2019) — Author — 14 copies
Dimensions of Harlan Ellison (2019) — Author — 14 copies
Harlan Ellison's Chocolate Alphabet (1978) — Author — 13 copies
Getting In The Wind (2012) 13 copies
None of the Above (2012) 12 copies
Dangereuses Visions Tome 2 (1967) 11 copies
De helden van de highway (1973) 10 copies
Footsteps {short story} (1980) 10 copies
8 in 80 by Ellison (2014) 10 copies
Harlan Ellison (2009) 9 copies
A Toy for Juliette [short fiction] — Author — 9 copies
FOE: Friends of Ellison (2018) 9 copies
Korku'nun Butun Sesleri (2010) 7 copies
Doomsman (1967) 7 copies
Along the Scenic Route (1969) 7 copies
Soft Monkey {short story} (1987) 7 copies
Brillo (1970) 6 copies
Detective Comics # 567 (1986) 6 copies
Idrogeno e idiozia (1999) 5 copies
Corpse [short fiction] (1972) 5 copies
Croatoan [short fiction] (2014) 5 copies
Dreams with sharp teeth (2009) 5 copies
La Machine aux yeux bleus (2001) 5 copies
At The Mouse Circus (1971) 5 copies
The Crackpots 4 copies
Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #3 (1975) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Avengers, Vol. 1 #101 (1972) 4 copies
Seeing 4 copies
Knox [short story] (1974) 4 copies
Lonelyache (1964) 4 copies
Neon 4 copies
Rock God 4 copies
Erotophobia [short story] (1967) 4 copies
Final Shtick (1960) 4 copies
Cold Friend 4 copies
Flintlock (Signed) (1972) 4 copies
Jokes Without Punchlines (1995) 3 copies
To, co najlepsze. 1 (2018) 3 copies
Glowworm [short story] (1956) 3 copies
Keyboard 3 copies
Grail [short story] (1981) 3 copies
S. R. O. [short fiction] (1957) 3 copies
Soldier [novelette] (1957) 3 copies
Coffin Nails 3 copies
Night Vigil 3 copies
To, co najlepsze. 2 (2018) 3 copies
The Starlost: The Complete Series (2008) — Creator — 3 copies
The Discarded 3 copies
Bright Eyes 3 copies
The City on the Edge of Forever [audio play] (2016) — Author — 3 copies
Daredevil, Vol. 1 #208 (1984) 3 copies
Mom [short fiction] (1976) 2 copies
The Wilder One [vignette] (1955) 2 copies
On the Slab 2 copies
Stuffing 2 copies
Quicktime 2 copies
Nueva Dimension 29 (2019) 2 copies
IO, ROBOT 2 copies
Sex Gang (1959) 2 copies
The Starlost 2 copies
Flop Sweat 2 copies
Wonderbird 2 copies
Street Scene (1968) 2 copies
Runesmith {short work} (1965) 2 copies
Die Stadt am Rande der Ewigkeit (1979) — Author — 2 copies
Do-It-Yourself 2 copies
Sex Gang 1 copy
High Dice 1 copy
Pain God 1 copy
The Truth 1 copy
Visioni: I racconti (2021) 1 copy
Eggsucker 1 copy
Visioni. I racconti (2021) 1 copy
Turnpike 1 copy
RFD #2 1 copy
Have Coolth 1 copy
The Assassin 1 copy
EDGEWORKS (3 VOLUMES) (1996) 1 copy
Opium 1 copy
Django 1 copy

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I thought quite often about [a:H. P. Lovecraft|22272396|H. P. Lovecraft|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] while reading this. I think Ellison and Lovecraft are compelling in similar ways. They are both shitty people and not especially skilled writers (though Ellison has Lovecraft beat, there), and they are both struggling with enormous, genuinely compelling visions that stem from a weird combination of their shitty worldviews and, through those funhouse-mirror-views, some aspects of the actual enormity and pain of the world. I'm not sure that I'm being at all clear, but I'm glad I've read this, though I can't actually recommend that anyone do the same.… (more)
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localgayangel | 48 other reviews | Mar 5, 2024 |
I bought this for 2 reasons:
1) it was on sale on the Kindle for $1.99. I can't beat that price for a graphic novel.
2) My dad kickstarted the audio drama they're doing for the original teleplay (funded and over) and it tickled my interest to see this on sale.

I very likely saw the TV episode from the original Trek when I was younger. Dad swears I used to watch (and enjoy) it with him. I've been...less interested in the original Trek, far more fascinated by DS9, but I wanted to compare the two so I took out our DVD sets and watched the episode shortly after reading this.

So. Very. Different.

I don't just mean in overall tone--Ellison very clearly had a darker idea about Starfleet (which hey I agree and that's why DS9 is my go to love) then Roddenberry (who was notoriously possessive of his nie on perfect world utopia brainchild)--but in general.

The episode, if you haven't seen it, revolves around Bones McCoy getting himself infected, going batshit crazy and escaping into the mid-20th century past thanks to a somewhat smirky-sarcastic alien portal named the Guardian of Forever* that all but challenges Kirk and Spock to find the right answer OR ELSE.

Not one to let sleeping dogs lie, Kirk and Spock head back in time (not without Spock constantly getting sidetracked by science shit tho), but wind up slightly ahead of when Bones would arrive so they endeavor to live out in pre-WWII America...mostly by stealing, lying and romancing a lady. Yes Kirk gets his Kirk on and argues with Spock, who doesn't understand why Kirk would want to jeopardize their future when their ENTIRE MISSION is to save their future.

That's the episode. With some hijinks, mild racism (mostly Kirk about Spock being a "Chinaman"), and a whole lot of moralizing. Typical TOS Trek.

Ellison's original teleplay (which as I understand wasn't touched up at all really) was like FUCK UTOPIA STARFLEET WE GONNA MAKE THIS REAL WORLD. Drug dealing, insubordination of EVERYONE towards Kirk (including an epic argument between him and Spock), horrible (but accurate) racism, depression era horribleness, fascism (dude look Kirk's Lady was one step away from the bad kind of Socialist) and worst of all plausible morality. In the end, our drug-dealing enterprise crew member --who killed at least one man and was quite happily, and smugly, addicting folk to a really nasty drug -- chose to try and save Kirk's Lady (without knowing its Kirk's Lady) and ultimately died for the effort (so did the Lady).

In the show McCoy attempts to, but Kirk stops him having finally seen the logic of Spock's argument. It a painful scene to watch, as Bones (still rather crazy) accuses Kirk of allowing her to die and not caring. Spock, who was with Kirk that entire week he was seducing the Lady, tells Bones Kirk does understand and the three express a lot in just their tone and body language.

In the original teleplay and now the graphic novel, Spock asks Kirk why the crew man sacrificed himself after exhibiting nothing but selfish, greedy and destructive tendencies. He's puzzled by what prompted the man to try. Kirk says that's what it means to be human basically. We're selfish, greedy and destructive...but sometimes there's something we can't help but see as WRONG and want to correct it. For that crew man watching an innocent woman die when he could possibly prevent it meant he had to try. Despite being directly responsible for another's death.

In both cases I think there's an important emotional impact the other misses. In the televised version we see the direct result of Spock and Kirk's conversation--Kirk understands Spock's reasons and puts the needs of the many first. He does what a Starfleet Captain does--makes a heartbreaking choice knowing it will end in someone's death. In Ellison's version the conversation between Spock and Kirk is powerful--Kirk's condemnation of humanity is said in the same breath as his commendation. Spock's concise summation of "there is good in evil and evil in good" is on point.


While my natural inclination is to enjoy Ellison's original teleplay more, especially with the gorgeous artwork exhibited here, I do have a soft spot for the televised version and recommend both to be read/viewed together.

*Seriously I love the Guardian of Forever (who is a big pest in the formerly canonical tie-in novels--especially [b:Spock vs. Q Collection|18926899|Spock vs. Q Collection (Star Trek)|Cecilia Fannon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389119931s/18926899.jpg|26933682], [b:Imzadi|217890|Imzadi (Star Trek the Next Generation)|Peter David|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387669112s/217890.jpg|1192048] and the [b:Millennium Omnibus|131629|Millennium Omnibus (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)|Judith Reeves-Stevens|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1172002925s/131629.jpg|126773] books for DS9, but that's not here or there). His answer to everything is basically "You didn't ask".
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DNF @ 30%

CW: Obnoxious white dude writing offensive Black man and white woman, including a number of occasions wifh him writing the Black protagonist as dropping hard Rs.

I'm in a really annoying, impossible to please phase at the moment with my mental health and general existential crises, which made actually made me pick this up, as I had such a profoundly positive and strangely reassuring experience with I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. So much so I listened.lnronfihe different readings, including the BBC radio over the course of one evening. At first, that classic Ellis absolute lack of charm and nihilistic self-importance was a tone that was working for my own neurotic heads pace, and I was genuinely intrigued by the descriptions of the mind reading and their mental roll.

However, this didn't last because this is some Ellis at his most self-indulgent fart huffing, which is one thing, but while juggling a protagonist who is a Black man and his foil who is a white woman, is something else slenfifeor/entirely. Frankly, I for a feeling relatively early on that it was going to be a race between the story actually getting to the central conflict, before my discomfort levels with the desoltry characterisation becoming increasingly racist and misogynistic in their portrayal and language. Sadly, the action lost.

To be clear, I don't think Ellis is necessarily going out of this way to be gross. It just comes naturally. I think he genuinely believes he is really doing something with his awkward phonetics that edge towards AAVE and multiple hard Rs.
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On the whole it was just to full of itself and utterly insufferable Ellis that made me realise that there was no exploration of the oremins or pay off that was every going to be worth putting up with nasty white cis man writing a painful and offensive Black man and white woman.

Maybe I was just in the right place at the right time for No Mouth to really speak to me and my feelings of helplessness in this hell world. Not ready to abandon trying any more Ellis, but my opinion of him continues to plummet.
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I hadn't read this before tonight. Now I've listened to five different readings of it, including the intriguingly different radio play with Harlan Ellison as Am.

I don't know if it's more the depression that has struck like a hammer after having a week or so that wasn't dark, and the neurodivergent hyperfixation, my experience with chronic physical and mental conditions, being mostly housebound, and being a big, fat, tranny in a country and a world becoming hateful and dangerous for us, or some fun concoction of all of that, but I feel strangely seen and oddly soothed by the truly horrifying story.

If it wasn't for the misogyny, and specifically misogynoir, as well as the complete lack of understanding of women, sex, and homosexuality that is, frankly, incel in its ignorant hate and contemptuous disregard, this would easily be top marks. But I just can't do that. I don't have the mental capacity to full get into it right now, but if you are unable to see the sexism, racism, and homophobia in the group dynamic and how the characters are written, you need to check in with yourself. I totally understand how others have been so put off and effected by this grossness, which is genuinely one of the most uncomfortable and weird things in this story, which is saying something.

The nightmare dystopia of Skynet killing everyone save five people it decides to torture with inchoate abandon, driven into an eternal hateful fugue at being given sentience and no way to experience life as humans do, is truly horrifying. The torturer, Am, is oddly human and zealous in its gleeful hate. The protagonist is left strangely inhuman, eternally alone and safe from death in hell with the eponymous lines left on his lack of lips.

This is one of those stories you can project whatever you want on because it's pure nightmare. It's capitalism, authoritarianism, transphobia, chronic pain, depression, and none of these things. I think it is kinda abhorrently beautiful and comforting, aside from the fucking weird incel shit, and I can absolutely see why this is both seen as an absolute classic and among the luminaries of sci-fi and horror, and that how people think it's an overhyped, ugly, problematic mess. For me, it's both.
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