{"id":136852,"date":"2018-06-28T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136852"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:47:57","slug":"rip-harlan-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/rip-harlan-ellison.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Harlan Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a lot of joy from Ellison&#39;s TV, and reading his non-fiction, critical, essay work. I was never as enthused about his (unfiltered-for-TV) fiction (but that&#39;s just me), and I often found a lot of his other reported behavior more dickish than puckish &#8230; but the man was a remarkable bundle of creativity, imagination, and fierce, uncompromising rage. The world needs that &#8212; in measured doses, perhaps, but it needs it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/06\/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/oGcJvGuAOPh8BusEc_WcSXPoDbq54H_DLdvndJNF6TbQXwf-Qu3OdRDo4VOFCdqIlFEAHyvd2ggetFpfdupv4INXrYJZPazwgpNZw0atb3D7LGxiNjaMl0W8loucnA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/06\/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133\/'>Harlan Ellison Dead: Legendary &lsquo;Star Trek&rsquo;, &lsquo;A Boy And His Dog&rsquo; Sci-Fi Writer was 84<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHarlan Ellison, one of the world&rsquo;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&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8aNUEbaXTrA'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a lot of joy from Ellison&#39;s TV, and reading his non-fiction, critical, essay work. I was never as enthused about his (unfiltered-for-TV) fiction (but that&#39;s just me), and I often found a lot of his other reported behavior more dickish than puckish &#8230; but the man was a remarkable bundle of creativity, imagination, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/rip-harlan-ellison.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Harlan Ellison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41360,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/isaac-asimov-harlan-ellison-and-gene-wolfe-on-science-fiction.html","url_meta":{"origin":136852,"position":0},"title":"Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Wolfe on Science Fiction","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Mar-14 7:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Just one of those weird things one inadvertently runs across on YouTube -- a chat on some obscure art channel in 1982 between these three writers, as moderated by Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin. \u00a0The 24 minutes goes by way too quickly.\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/book-review-brain-movies-vol-1-by-harlan-ellison-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":136852,"position":1},"title":"Book Review: &#8220;Brain Movies, Vol. 1&#8221; by Harlan Ellison (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Aug-11 9:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Brain Movies, Vol. 1,\u00a0by Harlan Ellison My rating: 4 of 5 stars This privately published book contains reproductions of story treatments and scripts for some of Ellison's earliest work on \"The Outer Limits\" (\"Soldier,\" \"Demon with a Glass Hand\"), \"Twilight Zone\" (\"Paladin of the Lost Hour,\" \"Crazy as a Soup\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Babylon 5&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Babylon 5","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-babylon-5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/brain-movies_vol1-254x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12263,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/enfant_terrible.html","url_meta":{"origin":136852,"position":2},"title":"Enfant terrible","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jun-08 8:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"AV Club starts a two-part interview with Harlan Ellison, on occasion of a new biographical film about him, Dreams with Sharp Teeth. 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