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What does /lit/ think of Harlan Ellison? 2016-09-19 09:01:59 Post No. 8525212
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Am I the only one around here who adores him? He was so pompous and proud, with a rock 'n' roll attitude as a young man, and now that he's in his eighties he's the cutest old man (whilst still being prolific). Besides, most of his facetious quips and opinions are well-deserved and come from a good place (if only to spark conversation at the very least). And his best work is on par (and arguably even surpasses) the works of other SFF greats like PKD and Wolfe. He's written 10,000+ short stories--there ought to be gems worthy of great praise (and there definitely are, lots of them). Why doesn't he get more love on here? Most of the SFF-related threads on here are either about PKD or Gene Wolfe. Just, damn. Who else loves him and his work as much as I do?
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>>8525212
He's written some fantastic stories. I don't think he surpasses PKD, but he does surpass Wolfe.
His nonfiction writing is pretty fantastic, too.
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yes, Harlan, you are the only one around here who adores him. you are the only one who posts these "who loves harlan ellison" threads, and i am the only one who demands you hand over all of the stories you collected for "The Last Dangerous Visions", since it's fucking obvious you aren't going to ever publish the fucking thing.
asimov was right.
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>>8525212
>He's writte 10,000+ short stories
Excuse me. I have to call bullshit on this. Can you list all ten thousand stories he's written, or point to a list somewhere?
You aren't including all the anthologies of other peoples' work that he wrote introductions for, are you?
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>>8525387
Here's his bibliography.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25
It doesn't look like 10,000 to me either.
OP a shit.
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>>8525385
What did Asimov say?
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>>8525392
oh, nothing much about Ellison; Asimov was too polite for that kind of attention-demanding bullshit. he did make a joke about Harlan being kind of short, but that was after Harlan met him for the first time and dismissed him as "meh, he's not much."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNIFEHN1_cY
Why does he have a MC Ride sweatshirt?
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>>8525421
> video titled "on Saving Mr Banks"
> first two minutes are about Mr Ellison
fuck, i thought this was about saving Iain M Banks, a far worthier writer.
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>>8525417
Didn't Asimov chimp out over 1984 once?
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I Have No Mouth was excellent. However I was totally underwhelmed by Dangerous Visions, barring PKD's story and maybe two or three others.
I'd like to read some of his other work. His role in Scooby Doo was cool.
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He's hit and miss. He has a few works that are staggeringly good, The Deathbird chief among them, but a lot of his most trumpeted works are subpar Twilight Zone tier (I'm looking at you Moneyeyes!)
His style is far more advanced than PKD but on the whole he's the weaker author, and he doesn't even approach Wolfe that's just foolishness.
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