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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934, Cleveland, Ohio) is a prolific speculative fiction writer of short stories, novellas, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone (1980s version) and Babylon 5.

Ellison is active in the science fiction community, sometimes appearing at science fiction conventions.

1 Books of Short Stories

• Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
• Deathbird stories
• The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
• Approaching Oblivion
• Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled (fiction and nonfiction)
• Strange Wine
• Shatterday
• Stalking the Nightmare
• Angry Candy
• Slippage

2 Novels

• Spider Kiss
• Rumble (also titled Web of the City)

3 Published screenplays and teleplays

• I, Robot (with Isaac Asimov) (unrelated to the 2004 movie starring Will Smith)
• City on the Edge of Forever ( Star TrekStar Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early to mid 1960s. episode, original screenplay, with commentary)

See also Phoenix without Ashes, the novelization by Edward Bryant of the screenplay for the pilot episode of The Starlost, which includes a lengthy afterword by Ellison describing what happened in the production of that series.

4 Nonfiction

• Memos from Purgatory
• The Glass Teat (essays on television, 1968-1970)
• The Other Glass Teat (essays on television, 1970-1972)
• Harlan Ellison's Watching

5 Anthologies edited

• Dangerous VisionsDangerous Visions was a path-breaking science fiction short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and published in 1967. It was a defining work of the New Wave science fiction movement, particularly in its depiction of sex in science fiction. The antho 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio (BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Dangerous Visions 2
• Dangerous Visions 3 (BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Again Dangerous Visions 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un (BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Medea: Harlan's World (1985; BooksEnthsiast.com): an experiment in collaborative science-fictional world-building, featuring contributions by Hal ClementHarry Clement Stubbs ( May 30, 1922 October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement was an American science fiction writer, a leader of the subgenre hard science fiction. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and went to Harvard, graduating, Frank HerbertFrank Patrick Herbert ( October 8, 1920 February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author. As an author Herbert was both critically acclaimed and a worldwide commercial success. He is best known for the novel Dune the five other novels in the seri, Ursula K. LeGuin and others