Ellison, Harlan (Vol. 1) - Ellison, Harlan 1934–
Ellison, Harlan 1934–
American science fiction writer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Harlan Ellison is not only the most audible but possibly the most gifted of the American members of the New Wave. When he first hove into sight in 1956, spinning around lampposts and bragging of imaginary adventures and achievements, I thought him all noise and no talent, and told him so. In the succeeding decade he proved me dead wrong about this, and very few acts as a writer have given me so much pleasure as acknowledging this…. He is in fact a born writer, almost entirely without taste or control but with so much fire, originality and drive, as well as compassion, that he makes the conventional virtues of the artist seem almost irrelevant; his work strongly resembles that of Louis-Ferdinand Céline … even to its black, wild humor.
William Atheling, Jr., in his More Issues at Hand, Advent, 1970, p....
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