I don’t think we write enough about the really messed up predecessors of the science fiction today, so Harlan Ellison’s short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is the subject of today’s Throwback Thursday, ’s ongoing column dedicated to the great and influential science fiction of the past.Ī lot of people will ask me how to describe Ellison’s work, and what I usually do is describe this short story. I knew Harlan Ellison because he wrote a disturbing story that my friend handed to me saying, “This is some seriously f*cked up sh*t, man”. Or maybe you know him as the man who groped Science Fiction author, Connie Willis, because that’s apparently what friends do (though there is some debate about whether this was blown out of proportion). Some you may know him as the dude who had a kerfuffle about the ‘Star Trek’ episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever,” and successfully sued for damages against CBS in 2009 ( kerfuffle is probably underplaying it). Some of you might know him from the big Penny Arcade debacle, where he and Gabe (Mike Krahulik) had a kerfuffle about who was the rudest person. Some of you may know Harlan Ellison, some of you may not.
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