Harlan Ellison

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• Qualities of a Good Teacher

  
  incipit vita nova — Authority: 120
  I understand now that Harlan has been "controversial" because people dont perceive the several layers of irony in which he sometimes cloaks his words and actions, and because they also fail to perceive that he has always communicated from a deep, honest emotional core. Its in his writing. It is his writing. It took ...
  4 days ago

• Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009)

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  Famed illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz died October 22 of cardiac arrest. He was an acknowledged influence on the sf art field who did some of the most iconic sf book covers of his generation, as the New York Times  noted: Mr. Punchatz was a skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the fantastic and absurd. His ...
  1 week ago

• Is it Too Early to Start Hating "The Holidays"?

  
  Project Child Murdering Robot — Authority: 122
  Santa and Reindeer by ~TroyJunior on deviantARTIs it too early to start hating the enforced merriment and jollity of "the holiday season"? Usually, I dont start hating the holidays until the middle of November, but I am in a particularly sour mood this year. Maybe its because were in a recession and the unemployment ...
  1 week ago

• Signs of the Apocalypse Roundup – October 2009 – Week 5

  
  (Cool) Shite on the Tube - Film, TV, Comics, Games, Books, Genre Pop Culture. — Authority: 135
  ABC orders extreme weight-loss reality show ABC is teaming with “Biggest Loser” executive producer J.D. Roth for a new show where extremely overweight individuals shed hundreds of pounds over the course of a full year. Tentatively titled “Obese,” the network has taken the rare step of ordering an unscripted ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 29: That New Being, the New Master

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 466
  If I wanted to, and didnt mind reading and writing exclusively about vampires (I would), I think I could very easily get a whole months worth of posts out of the book pictured above. As you can see, it advertises itself as " The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published ". I have no idea if that claim is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Avatar Story Revealed – Accusers Come Out Of The Woodwork

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 148
  James Cameron’s much hyped Avatar has it’s complete plot-line revealed in the new International trailer. With it come questions of stealing concepts and story-lines once again for the director. Many may recall Cameron’s Terminator being a story once told by Harlan Ellison (renowned science fiction writer) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Avatar Controversy: Did James Cameron Steal the Story?

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 757
  While geeks the world over are eagerly awaiting Avatar , the return of James Cameron to the original sci-fi territory hes proven a master over with The Abyss and Terminator/Terminator 2 , fans of obscure science fiction novellas from 1957 are being struck with deja vu. A reader tipped off genre champions ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ellison Receives Settlement In Lawsuit Against Paramount

  
  SciFi Pulse — Authority: 146
  Its a Star Trek story decades in the making! But if you blinked, you missed it.Harlan Ellison, noted science fiction writer, and CBS Paramount recently settled a lawsuit filed by the author in March regarding the original Star Trek episode, "City On The Edge Of Forever." You know, the one that aired in 1967 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison Wins "City on the Edge of Forever" Suit

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 131
  The long-fought suit over merchandising and other rights to Harlan Ellisons great "City on the Edge of Forever" episode of Star Trek has been ruled in Ellisons favor, reports Slice of Sci Fi . Ellison sued Paramount Pictures over the various spinoff merchandising to his story, which regularly ranks as one of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison bests CBS Paramount over 42 year old Star Trek episode

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 722
  You have to admire the tenacity of writer Harlan Ellison . He filed a lawsuit against CBS Paramount accusing the company of not paying him for all the ancillary income the company earned from the episode of Star Trek he wrote in 1967, "City on the Edge of Forever." Yesterday, Ellison announced on his web site ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dollhouse, Flashforward, and a Few SF Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Dollhouse , Flashforward , and a few SF links. * Both Dollhouse tonight and Flashforward yesterday were noticeable improvements over a string of weak episodes, but problems persist. On Flashforward , the characters remain essentially interchangeable ciphers, with almost no tension or mystery surrounding their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison settles Star Trek lawsuit

  
  Major Spoilers — Authority: 522
  Harlan Ellison posted on his Website that he has settled his lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over his script for the now classic episode, “City on the Edge of Forever”.  The suit arose from Ellison’s claims that Paramount had failed to pay secondary use rights from the episode, and that the Writer’s Guild ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 20: Her Flesh was Like Putty and Tasted of Soap

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 466
  If memory serves, the first time I ever came across the name Tom Reamy was in the "Further Reading" appendix to the wonderful, essential book Horror: 100 Best Books , put together by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. The Reamy book in question that made that list (and the "Further Reading" list to Jones and Newmans ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vonnegut Postscript

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  A never-before-published Kurt Vonnegut story appeared in the Los Angeles Times on October 18. As the LA Times’ “Jacket Copy” blog explains:    “ Look at the Birdie ” is the title story of the collection to be released next week, two and a half years after his death. The same post treats readers to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 15: An Orchid Thus Come By

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 466
  Glancing over the contents page of my copy of John Colliers Fancies and Goodnights is kind of depressing. Its dotted with hashmarks, indicating which stories Ive read so far. Not counting what Ive read over the last couple of days, there are a total of eighteen hash marks, which is over half the stories. And what do ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Much Is That Writer in the Window?

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  In the tradition of Harlan Ellison and Louis L’Amour, children’s author Simon Cheshire is writing the eighth Saxby Smart comedy crime mystery in the window of a Borders bookshop in the UK. Ellison also wrote at a table in the middle of a Worldcon, and L’Amour once set up his typewriter in the middle of ...
  6 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison - Pay The Writer

  
  Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs — Authority: 125
  Click here to view the embedded video. This has been posted and reposted and linked to so many times on so many writing blogs, and I usually like to be different. However, this is so awesome that if just one of you haven’t seen it yet, posting it was worth the effort. What makes this more poignant is that Harlan ...
  8 weeks ago

• Snaked, Sylvia Plath, and why Harlan Ellison is like Jesus Christ

  
  Everyone's Wrong and I'm Right — Authority: 483
  The following interview appeared several years ago at ComicsVillage.com What are you working on these days? Getting more sleep. People don’t realize how important sleep is. I was just having this conversation with Howard Zimmerman the other day. Howard’s the former head of iBooks and an excellent editor. ...
  8 weeks ago

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