- This stub was created in response to some concerns voiced about the original article, and will be replaced by a longer article shortly. For more information, please see the talk page.
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
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
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.
- 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)
- "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)
- (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)
- '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
External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Harlan Ellison
|
