It’s Harlan Ellison’s 80th birthday. To celebrate the day here are the Top 10 most-read File 770 posts about him:
1. Ellison Coming To The Simpsons
2. Harlan Ellison 2010 Grammy Nominee
3. Ellison Recovering From Spill
4. Ellison’s Health Overshadows Hall of Fame Induction
5. Ellison’s Big Pair
6. The Harlan Ellison Links Keep on Coming
7. Ellison’s Website Stats
8. Ellison Added To SF Hall of Fame
9. Harlan Ellison on The Simpsons 1/12
10. Ellison, Card in The Delivery
And here’s a bonus: a 30-second clip of Harlan as himself conversing with “H.P. Hatecraft” in the Scooby-Doo episode “Shrieking Madness.”
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I think most everyone in publishing has a Harlan story. I posted mine today: http://www.starwarpconcepts.com/happy-birthday-harlan-ellison
Good story!
fab! Long may he reign!
I have others (you can’t interact with the man and *not* come out of it with a story), but I’ll probably save them for his next birthday. 😀
What bothers me is that I can remember Andy Porter writing in Algol, asking if science fiction could survive Harlan turning forty.
Phil Nichols posted Phil Foglio’s cartoon “What is an Ellison?”, a clever takeoff on that poem about the seven blind men and the elephant. Foglio drew it to illustrate one of David Gerrold’s Starlog columns in the 1980s.
This caused me to recall the Tim Kirk cartoon from the days of SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW: “Harlan Elephant defends the faith.”
But I thought Harlan said he was dying!