I got a lot of joy from Ellison's TV, and reading his non-fiction, critical, essay work. I was never as enthused about his (unfiltered-for-TV) fiction (but that's just me), and I often found a lot of his other reported behavior more dickish than puckish … but the man was a remarkable bundle of creativity, imagination, and fierce, uncompromising rage. The world needs that — in measured doses, perhaps, but it needs it.
Harlan Ellison Dead: Legendary ‘Star Trek’, ‘A Boy And His Dog’ Sci-Fi Writer was 84
Harlan Ellison, one of the world’s foremost science fiction writers, has died at 84. His death was announced by family friend Christine Valada via twitter. Though Ellison was a longtime resid…
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Boy, this is a lousy year.
Just remembered: He wrote a piece speculating about the various possibilities of how he would die. None of them involved dying in his sleep at 84 years.
The last few years have sucked.
This, ladies and gentle men, is what happens as you get older. The longer you survive, the more people you know, or know of, die around you.
The trick is to be one of those people who, when you die, others say things like "Shit! We'll miss him!" about.
He was definitely a dick. And he was an amazing writer.
He was definitely a dick. And he was an amazing writer.
"Kling ahklami buhfik" (nobody's perfect)
— Spock