Biography of Harlan Jay Ellison
May 27, 1934
Harlan Jay Ellison was born on May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a Jewish family. As a child he moved to Painesville, returns to his hometown after his father's death in 1949. After several odd jobs and left home several times, he enrolled at the University, but after a year and a half is hunted for having acted violently against a professor. In 1955 Ellison moved to New York, and began his writing career in the Big Apple: in just two years is more than a hundred articles (often in the form of short story) by science fiction character he composed.
The parentheses in the army, lasted from 1957 to 1959, never runs out of his creativity, as well as his move to Chicago. Then Ellison is heading to California, where he created scripts for several tv shows: the best known is Star Trek (bears his signature on the episode "Killing for love", in the original language "The city of The edge of forever"). In the second half of the 1960s the writer care "dangerous Visions" (original title: "Dangerous visions"), an anthology of English-speaking culture balance become a hub, where more than 30 British and American authors, famous or not famous, they face openly marginalized issues or even completely excluded from science fiction up to that point: not only political issues like pacifism, anti-militarism and imperialism but also sexual topics like incest or religious as atheism. Among the writers involved in the review there are, in addition to the same Nick_1001, among others, John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, Lester Del Rey, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Robert Bloch, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Samuel r. Delany, Kris Neville, Isaac Asimov, Keith Laumer, Larry Niven, Philip k. Dick, John t. Sladek and Theodore Sturgeon. Asimov, in particular, it deals with the preface, speaking of "second revolution" with explicit reference to the first revolution, one that had created the golden age of science fiction.
"Dangerous visions", whose idea was actually born already years earlier by Judith Merril, follows "Again, dangerous visions", released in 1972. Original styling and intriguing, as the titles of his stories ("I have no mouth and I must scream", "The dog Yelp beaten", "the beast that shouted love at the heart of the world", just to name a few), Ellison hidden in words a remarkable ability to tell a story without dwelling in a genre or limit from rationality. Among the most famous short stories by Harlan Ellison quote "the bird of death" (original title: "The deathbird"), "a boy and his dog" (original title: "A boy and his dog"), "the shadow in the hunt in the city on the edge of the world" (original title: "The prowler in the city at the edge of the world"), "try a dull knife" (original title "Try a dull knife") and "repent, Harlequin! The man said of ticks "(original title:" Repent, Harlequin! Said the ticktockman ").
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Harlan Jay Ellison was born on May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a Jewish family. As a child he moved to Painesville, returns to his hometown after his father's death in 1949. After several odd jobs and left home several times, he enrolled at the University, but after a year and a half is hunted for having acted violently against a professor. In 1955 Ellison moved to New York, and began his writing career in the Big Apple: in just two years is more than a hundred articles (often in the form of short story) by science fiction character he composed.
The parentheses in the army, lasted from 1957 to 1959, never runs out of his creativity, as well as his move to Chicago. Then Ellison is heading to California, where he created scripts for several tv shows: the best known is Star Trek (bears his signature on the episode "Killing for love", in the original language "The city of The edge of forever"). In the second half of the 1960s the writer care "dangerous Visions" (original title: "Dangerous visions"), an anthology of English-speaking culture balance become a hub, where more than 30 British and American authors, famous or not famous, they face openly marginalized issues or even completely excluded from science fiction up to that point: not only political issues like pacifism, anti-militarism and imperialism but also sexual topics like incest or religious as atheism. Among the writers involved in the review there are, in addition to the same Nick_1001, among others, John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, Lester Del Rey, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Robert Bloch, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Samuel r. Delany, Kris Neville, Isaac Asimov, Keith Laumer, Larry Niven, Philip k. Dick, John t. Sladek and Theodore Sturgeon. Asimov, in particular, it deals with the preface, speaking of "second revolution" with explicit reference to the first revolution, one that had created the golden age of science fiction.
"Dangerous visions", whose idea was actually born already years earlier by Judith Merril, follows "Again, dangerous visions", released in 1972. Original styling and intriguing, as the titles of his stories ("I have no mouth and I must scream", "The dog Yelp beaten", "the beast that shouted love at the heart of the world", just to name a few), Ellison hidden in words a remarkable ability to tell a story without dwelling in a genre or limit from rationality. Among the most famous short stories by Harlan Ellison quote "the bird of death" (original title: "The deathbird"), "a boy and his dog" (original title: "A boy and his dog"), "the shadow in the hunt in the city on the edge of the world" (original title: "The prowler in the city at the edge of the world"), "try a dull knife" (original title "Try a dull knife") and "repent, Harlequin! The man said of ticks "(original title:" Repent, Harlequin! Said the ticktockman ").
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