Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman | A Time for Daring
The short essay ‘‘One Small Daring Footnote: Circa 2005’’ was especially written by Harlan Ellison to introduce this reprinting of his essay ‘‘A Time for Daring,’’ in which he takes issue with the popular complacence of many science fiction writers toward science fiction writing through the latter 1960s, declaring that many of the underestimated, overlooked science fiction authors are those who actually elevate science fiction to ‘‘a level with all great art.’’
ONE SMALL DARING FOOTNOTE: CIRCA 2005
At the beginning of the seventh paragraph in the essay that follows, you will read as follows: ‘‘Ten years ago the first Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference was held. . .’’
That would’ve been 1957.
I wrote those words in 1967.
As I write these words, today, just for you, it is still the first week in January, the new millennium, year 2005. The hereafter-following essay is nearly forty years old. I was a brash, pugnacious, 33-yearold in 1967. I was a smartass, just like you....
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