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He’s a moonbat lefty, but I have to give him credit: “Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman” is a libertarian classic and deserves a place in the library of every free person.
gee I thought this was a Howard Dean thread.
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Have you seen any of the images of him copping a feel of the writer Connie Willis at a Hugo awards? He looks like a wheezy bulldyke overdue for a wheelchair.
When I was young, I read a few of his stories, and liked the “Glass Teat” books. Now that I’m older, he’s highly over-rated.
He’s made a point of NOT reading anything that fans have written and submitted directly to him, simply to be sure that he’s not sued for “stealing” their stories. He’ll return manuscripts unopened.
But you’re right, he can be a jerk. But he’s also a brilliant short story author, and quite possibly one of the greatest editors of short stories of the last few decades. If not for his “Dangerous Visions” anthologies, I would have never heard of (those who have become) some of my favorite authors.
He’s also quite unabashedly hard left. But he can also be brutal to those he normally supports as well. And I don’t think that anyone’s ever written better on the Kitty Genovese murder that Harlan Ellison.
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“Dangerous Visions”
Had some creepy stuff — I’ll give him that.
Probably the creepiest was the short story advocating father/daughter incest — yuck!
I read “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” when I was about 15. It was in a paperback anthology of SF.
It made me kind of sick to my stomach, but I couldn’t put it down. I’d never read anything like it, and it changed me a little.
Ellison is a moonbat, but he is a great writer - some of his stories just haunt you after you read them.
If you can find them, check out his books of TV commentary columns from the 70’s (The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat). mostly hilarious and insightful, if you can stand the moonbatry.