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Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see 'em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he's gone.The great English writer Michael Moorcock--and if his name does not leave you dumbstruck with awe, you should move on--called Ellison a ''fox in the sf hen-coop'' whose presence will ''produce a brighter, faster hen, with improved survival characteristics, laying a tastier, more nourishing egg'' and went on to say Ellison was ''a brave and lively little beast, who makes a great show of himself to the hounds, but remains too wary ever to lead them to his lair.''The brilliant novelist Joanna Russ, in admiring frustration, opined that Ellison's stories ''have an assault on you,'' but complained that ''they're not like a piece of sculpture that you can stop and walk around and look at from all sides.
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. He was editor and anthologist for two science fiction anthologies, Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) . Ellison has won numerous awards including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars.
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