{"id":103635,"date":"2018-06-29T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=103635"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T09:39:28","slug":"harlan-ellison-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/harlan-ellison-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlan Ellison dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incredibly talented, prolific and outspoken writer Harlan Ellison has passed away at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>The news was broken by Christine Valada, who tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Susan Ellison has asked me to announce the passing of writer Harlan Ellison, in his sleep, earlier today. \u201cFor a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.\u201d\u2014HE, 1934-2018. Arrangements for a celebration of his life are pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christine Valada, J.D. (@mcvalada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcvalada\/status\/1012406845758062592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ellison&#8217;s work spanned fiction, film and television, and he was as renowned as much for his searing talent as his pugnacious attitude. He wrote the classic <strong><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong> episode &#8216;The City On The Edge Of Forever&#8217;, although he was bitterly disappointed that the anti-war message was largely removed from the final product. He also penned the classic post-apocalyptic novella <strong><em>A Boy And His Dog<\/em><\/strong>, which would be turned into an excellent film starring Don Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote for <strong><em>The Outer Limits<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Twilight Zone<\/em><\/strong>, served as a creative consultant on <strong><em>Babylon 5<\/em><\/strong>, and edited the renowned sci-fi anthologies <strong><em>Dangerous Visions<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Again, Dangerous Visions<\/em><\/strong>. His short fiction may be his most influential and acclaimed, particularly the stories <strong><em>&#8220;Repent, Harlequin!&#8221; Said The Tick-Tock Man<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>the latter of which was adapted into a computer game in 1995 by Ellison himself.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison was famously litigious, and successfully sued Orion Pictures for a story credit on James Cameron&#8217;s <strong><em>The Terminator<\/em><\/strong> when he claimed it was based on his &#8216;Soldier&#8217; episode of <strong><em>The Outer Limits<\/em><\/strong>. He also brought cases against the TV series <strong><em>Future Cop<\/em><\/strong>, the film <strong><em>In Time<\/em><\/strong>, and in 2000 he fought against the free distribution of his writing online.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen King tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Harlan Ellison: There was no one quite like him in American letters, and never will be. Angry, funny, eloquent, hugely talented. If there&#8217;s an afterlife, Harlan is already kicking ass and taking down names.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1012429991735414785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>and Warren Ellis acknowledged his fierce nature:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I once asked Harlan Ellison how many books and stories he hadn&#8217;t had time to write because he just had to fuck around and pick a giant fight over every little thing.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Sure, but you can&#8217;t let the bastards get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 W\u1d00\u0280\u0280\u1d07\u0274 E\u029f\u029f\u026as (@warrenellis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenellis\/status\/1012433738746220544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-fi legend Harlan Ellison has passed away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":103636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,3],"tags":[1195],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/harlan-ellison.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}