Harlan Ellison
American writer (1934-2018) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84
Harlan Jay Ellison was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality.
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L. Q. Jones Directed A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Peter Leeds Directed The Oscar (1966)
Alvy Moore Produced A Boy and His Dog (1975)- Clarence Greene Produced The Oscar (1966)
Harvey Hart Directed The Starlost: The Beginning (1980)- Russell Rouse Directed The Oscar (1966)
Robin Ward Also in The Starlost: Deception (1980)
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Ellison's 1957 novella "The Savage Swarm", cover-featured in Amazing Stories, was collected under the author's preferred title, "The Air from the Past", in Coffin Nails (2016).
A few months later, another Ellison novella, "The Steel Napoleon", also took the cover of Amazing. It, too, was collected in Coffin Nails (2016).
Another Coffin Nails (2016) novella, "Satan Is My Ally", was the cover story on the May 1957 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction. It also appeared in Possibly Impossible (2021).![Ellison wrote "The Wife Factory" for Fantastic under the house name "Clyde Mitchell". It appeared in the November 1957 issue.[7] The novella was collected in Coffin Nails (2016).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Fantastic_195711.jpg/330px-Fantastic_195711.jpg)
Ellison wrote "The Wife Factory" for Fantastic under the house name "Clyde Mitchell". It appeared in the November 1957 issue.[7] The novella was collected in Coffin Nails (2016).
Ellison's "Suicide World", the cover story for the October 1958 Fantastic, was collected in Coffin Nails (2016) and Possibly Impossible (2021) under the author's preferred title: "Waste".
Ellison's "The Abnormals", the cover story for the April 1959 Fantastic, appears in Ellison collections as "The Discarded".
Ellison speaking at an SF convention, 2006Awards
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His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic-book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media.
