Harlan Ellison’s weapon of choice is the short story (though he’s written a handful of novels too). Clarke (left), Evelyn Gold, and the author of Psycho, Robert Bloch (right) Harlan Ellison (smoking a pipe), with Arthur C. Because I would be with the man who straddled many an era, one who grew up in the pulpy ‘golden age of science fiction’ and who contributed to defining the new wave of science fiction in the decades to come – not least with the greatest of all SF anthologies till date – and who’s steered the genre in many new directions with some of the most influential stories of all time across mediums in a career spanning over 60 years, including what is arguably the best Star Trek episode ever. And I would let the (mostly) one-sided conversation take its own course, with him doing all the talking, about all the things I will be hoping he speaks about. Harlan Ellison has a reputation as a raconteur. A young Harlan Ellison during the time when he would write stories sitting in bookstores windows. Ask me, ‘Of all the science fiction writers still alive, if you were to choose just one person to spend a day with, who would that be?’ my answer is ready – Harlan Ellison.
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