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Jun 24, 2024 · It is a city of inner discordances and retinal distortions.”. – Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren. “ Dhalgren is a tragic failure,” howled science fiction heavyweight Harlan Ellison in his February 1975 review for the Los Angeles Times. “An unrelenting bore of a literary exercise afflicted with elephantiasis, anemia of ideas, and ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Harlan Ellison was a prominent literary, sci-fi (but don’t use that term! call it speculative fiction!) figure in my formative reading years. I met him at conventions and book signings many times (the first time in 1976) and always enjoyed his wit, intelligence, and fervor when he railed against something … and he always railed against ...
2 days ago · I was never the audience for Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions. (Picture from here.) DV came out in 1967. I was fifteen. I read it but DV was intended
Jun 9, 2024 · Science fiction mainly involved white men arriving on other planets and attempting to colonize them, or survive insurmountable odds,” Straczynski said Ellison told him. “Before ‘Dangerous Visions,’ it’s fair to say sci-fi was technical, but Harlan dragged previously taboo subjects into the arena of science fiction.”.
5 days ago · Review by Paul Lappen. Rating 9/10. This is Ellison's script, written in the late 1970s, for a full-length movie incorporating several of Asimov's classic I, Robot stories. The essay, which begins this book, is not as vitriolic as some others of Ellison's, but it pulls no punches in chronicling the script's journey through Hollywood.
1 day ago · Newton Minow’s “vast wasteland” speech, Jerry Mander’s Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat, Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death—they were 100-percent correct. Cue the Sun! puts this in a new perspective. Despite Nussbaum’s gleeful fascination with the genre, she also ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Harlan Ellison was a prominent literary, sci-fi (but don't use that term! call it speculative fiction!) figure in my formative reading years. I met him at conventions and book signings many times (the first time in 1976) and always enjoyed his wit, intelligence, and fervor when he railed against something ... and he always railed against something.
