On a hilly street in Sherman Oaks, writer and producer J. Michael “Joe” Straczynski ... the eccentric author of speculative fiction, Harlan Ellison. Ellison’s career spanned six decades.

Gene Roddenberry reached out to prolific sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison for help. Ellison had, at the time already sold scripts to many television series, had written a novel, edited Rogue Magazine ...