9:27 a.m. June 4, 2024: A previous version of this story incorrectly described “Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits” as a newly revised book — it’s a new release — and misattributed some of Ellison’s ...

In 1968, a notoriously caustic science fiction writer accused Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry of peddling “utopian bullshit.” In 1978, this same writer — in an introduction written for Doctor Who ...

Harlan Ellison is America's weird uncle. He's the angry, elderly cousin at the table — the one who, for weeks before dinner, everyone asks about. Is he coming this year? Is Harlan gonna be there? They ...

Harlan went to leading writers, and said, ‘Look, if you could just write what you wanted to write, what would it be?’ And that became the first volume of “Dangerous Visions,” which codified what ...

Harlan Ellison, a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching his manual ...

I talk to 10 people about Harlan Ellison and that’s how almost every conversation starts. If I’d talked to a hundred, it would’ve been the same. Because everyone has a Harlan Ellison story. Everyone ...

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On a hilly street in Sherman Oaks, writer and producer J. Michael “Joe” Straczynski gestures to a row of gray gargoylesque heads mounted above an entryway. “If you look carefully, you’ll see they are ...