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 ...

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.