Harlan Ellison





Harlan Ellison

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May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

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Harlan Jay Ellison is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5. Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog".



Average rating: 4.23 · 46,769 ratings · 2,144 reviews · 300 distinct works
I Have No Mouth and I Must ...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 2,077 ratings — published 1967 — 13 editions
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Dangerous Visions
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 2,102 ratings — published 1967 — 20 editions
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Deathbird Stories
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 1975 — 17 editions
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Angry Candy
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 796 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Again, Dangerous Visions
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
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Strange Wine
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions
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Shatterday
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 796 ratings — published 1980 — 12 editions
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The Beast That Shouted Love...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions
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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.”
Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
Harlan Ellison

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