He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

However, there are notable exceptions in the Gil the ARM stories ; and Jigsaw Man first appeared in Harlan Ellison's landmark " new wave " anthology, Dangerous Visions.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

Judith Merril's annual anthologies ( 1957 – 1968 ), Damon Knight's Orbit series, and Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions featured American writers inspired by British writers ( although some of the writers anthologized were British ).

Latham remarks that this analysis by Harlan Ellison " obscures Ellison's own prominent role – and that of other professional authors and editors such as Judith Merril, Michael Moorcock, Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Donald A. Wollheim – in fomenting the conflict, …"

* Medea — Harlan Ellison's worldbuilding project.

Lester del Rey's " Evensong " ( the first story in Harlan Ellison's much-acclaimed Dangerous Visions anthology ), tells the story of a fugitive God hunted down across the universe by a vengeful humanity which seeks to " put him in his place ".

It published many award-winning stories over its 22 years, including Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and Harlan Ellison's short story " I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream ".

For example, in Harlan Ellison's writing, the term may signal a wish not to be pigeonholed as a science fiction writer, and a desire to break out of science fiction's genre conventions in a literary and modernist direction ; or to escape the prejudice with which science fiction is often met by mainstream critics.

The science fiction themes of autonomous weapons systems and the use of computers in warfare date back to the 1960s, often in a Frankensteinian context, notably in Harlan Ellison's 1967 short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " and films such as The Forbin Project, originally released in 1970.

In Harlan Ellison's 1957 short story " Soldier From Tomorrow " the protagonist is a soldier who has been conditioned from birth by the State solely to fight and kill the enemy.

The production staff considered Ellison's script to be excellent ( though the director Joseph Pevney said, " Harlan had no sense of theater ... in the original script's dramatic moments, it missed badly "), but they had several concerns.

The ancient ruins allegedly were the result of someone's misreading Harlan Ellison's description in the script of the city as " covered with runes.

On March 13, 2009, Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against CBS Paramount Television, seeking payment of 25 % of net receipts from merchandising, publishing, and other income from the episode since 1967 ; the suit also names the Writers Guild of America for allegedly failing repeatedly to act on Ellison's behalf in the matter.

* 1989: Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison ( tie )

" Asimov's own stories leave her misanthropy largely unexplained, but Harlan Ellison's screenplay adaptation of I, Robot investigates its origins, in the end concludes that her attitudes are rather well-founded.

An excerpt from Harlan Ellison's screenplay adaptation of I, Robot has this to say about Dr. Calvin: " She is a small woman, but there is a towering strength in her face.

In its early run, OMNI published a number of stories that have become genre classics, such as Orson Scott Card's " Unaccompanied Sonata ", William Gibson's " Burning Chrome " and " Johnny Mnemonic ", Harlan Ellison's novella " Mefisto in Onyx ", and George R. R. Martin's " Sandkings ".

* Harlan Ellison's book Memos from Purgatory is about the author infiltrating a gang in Red Hook.

* The cartoonist John Byrne scripted and drew a comic-book adaptation for issues 1-4 of the Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor comic book published by Dark Horse ( 1994 – 1995 ).

But the Byrne-illustrated story did not appear in the collection ( the trade paperback or hardcover editions ) entitled, Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Volume One ( 1996 ).

The story might have languished in limbo, had the author not pulled its submission to Harlan Ellison's never-published anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.

A villainous supercomputer appears in Harlan Ellison's 1963 short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States.

Harlan Ellison was approached by Robert Kline, a 20th Century Fox television producer, to come up with an idea for a science fiction TV series consisting of eight episodes, to pitch to the BBC as a co-production in February 1973.

Members of the 1973 state tournament Mayer team were: John Hoese and Randy Hoese, bat boys ; Martin Rolf, Brad Wroge, Jim Henning, Harlan Baumann, Kevin Florek, Dale Hoeft, Bob Vinkemeier, Bill Stein, Ron Lehrke, Dave Lenz, Lowell Heldt, Dave Hoese, Darryl Gieselmann, Mark Meschke, Courtney Meyer, Mark Wabbe ; Bob Schafer, statistician ; and Ed Hoese, manager.

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

Harlan County, USA is an Oscar-winning 1976 documentary film covering the " Brookside Strike ", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.

He achieved tenure at Columbia in 1973 at age 29, was named Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law in 1982, and was serving as dean of the law school in 1986 when he left to become president of Yale.

From 1973 through 1987, Wolin was Professor of Politics at Princeton University where he mentored a large number of students who have subsequently become leading figures in contemporary political theory, including most notably: at Berkeley, Hanna Pitkin ( Emeritus, Berkeley ), J. Peter Euben ( Duke University ) and Harlan Wilson ( Oberlin ), and at Princeton, Uday Mehta ( Amherst College ), Wendy Brown ( Berkeley ), Dana Villa ( Notre Dame ), Nicholas Xenos ( Massachusetts ), Kirstie McClure ( UCLA ) and Cornel West ( Princeton ).

* Harlan Carey Brewster, Canadian politician

* Justified, a TV series set in and around Harlan County.

Believing this to be the future of television — ( staged ) snuff TV — Max orders Harlan to begin pirating the show.

* 1993: Harlan & Merleen ( TV )… Maxine

Harlan is now semi-retired, working only on occasional TV specials.

" It wasn't that it was a bad show, it was that it was an awkward show ," concluded author Harlan Ellison, a fan of counter-cultural comedy and a TV critic for the Los Angeles Free Press in 1969.

He appeared as Christie in the TV movie The Diviners ( 1993 ) based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan County War ( 2000 ).

Also, many of the world's most popular science fiction authors got their way to Eastern European readers via Galaktika ( accompanied by the Kuczka-edited SF-novel series Kozmosz Fantasztikus Könyvek ( Cosmos Fantastic Books ) and later Galaktika Fantasztikus Könyvek ( Galactica Fantastic Books )), including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Robert Sheckley and Philip K. Dick.

Other writers who recall reading the series in their youth include Saul Bellow, Harlan Ellison, Jack Conroy, Ralph Ellison, and Studs Terkel.

For the last two of these series, John Harlan served as announcer.

The Supreme Court, however, disagreed with Harlan in a series of rulings during the 1960s.

Hasford associated with various science fiction writers of the 1970s ( including Arthur Byron Cover and David J. Skal ), had works published in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time and Damon Knight's Orbit series, and briefly shared an apartment with author Harlan Ellison.

Among his more memorable performances were in three episodes of the science-fiction anthology series The Outer Limits ( 1963 – 1965 ), including the classic " Demon with a Glass Hand ", written by Harlan Ellison.

Hwy 119 in Kentucky was originally a series of two-lane roads paralleling Pine Mountain ( Appalachian Mountains ) that connected Pineville, KY to Baxter, KY ( just north of Harlan, KY ) and then headed northeast through Cumberland, KY, Whitesburg, KY, on through Pikeville, KY, and finally into West Virginia.

He also appeared as Harlan Band in the Nickelodeon series Space Cases, his second role as a main character and as a teenager.

Produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski with creative input by Harlan Ellison, this show attempted to create a series long epic tale that avoided many of the clichés of the television genre.

Inspired by Frederik Pohl's Star Science Fiction series, and in its turn an influence on Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions volumes and many others, it ran for over a decade and twenty-one volumes, not including a " Best-of " collection which covered the years 1966-1976.

Jack Lee Ging ( born November 30, 1931, in Alva in Woods County in northwestern Oklahoma ) is an American actor best known for his role as General Harlan ' Bull ' Fullbright in the NBC television series The A-Team.

In 1964, King played a gang member in " Memo from Purgatory ", an episode of the television series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig.

Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd.

" Harlan Ellison describes it as a series that " turns to gibberish when one attempts to codify it ", praising Moncuse's writing style.