Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

In science fiction, a large number of the practitioners and other professionals in the field, not only writers but editors and publishers, traditionally have themselves come from and participate in science fiction fandom, from Ray Bradbury to Harlan Ellison to Patrick Neilsen Hayden to Toni Weisskopf ; and the " fan " vs. " pro " dualism does not exist in the way it does in the media entertainment industry.

And in an introduction to Tiptree's story in his Again, Dangerous Visions anthology, Harlan Ellison opined that " Wilhelm is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, writers like Frank Herbert, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison explored new trends, ideas, and writing styles, while a group of writers, mainly in Britain, became known as the New Wave for their embrace of a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously " literary " or artistic sensibility.

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, …"

Commenting in 2002 on the publication of the 35th Anniversary edition of the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, the critic Greg L. Johnson remarked that

Cyberpunk incorporated several of New Wave's " ancestors ," namely Burroughs and Alfred Bester and partially embraced New Wave proponents Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany.

Brian Aldiss, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Roger Zelazny are writers whose work, though not considered New Wave at the time of publication, later became to be interpreted under the label.

Recent involvement of science fiction writers include Harlan Ellison who served as a creative consultant on Babylon 5 and John Scalzi who served as a creative consultant on Stargate Universe.

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.

* May 27 – Harlan Ellison, American writer

During his tenure, he interviewed such luminaries as John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and other writers, producers, actors and directors.

Straczynski met Harlan Ellison during this time and would later become friends with him.

Beaumont was much admired by the well-known colleagues who outlived him ( Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Roger Corman ), and his work is currently in the process of being rediscovered.

In the late 1970s, Harlan Ellison wrote a screenplay based on Asimov's book I, Robot for Warner Bros ..

* Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium ( 1975, with Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Jack Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Hal Clement, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Hugo Gernsback, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, Cory Panshin, Larry Niven, James Blish, Harlan Ellison, E. E. Smith )

* The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy ( 1976, with Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement, A. E. van Vogt, Frank Herbert, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Norman Spinrad )

* Cordwainer Bird, a literary equivalent employed by author Harlan Ellison

* 2011: Vincent Di Fate ; Gardner Dozois ; Harlan Ellison ; Jean Giraud

By the 1970s, Harlan Ellison even described dystheism as a bit of a science fiction cliché.

Harlan Ellison wrote an early version of the script, but the movie was never made.

Spinrad's story " Carcinoma Angels " was the first story purchased by Harlan Ellison for his anthology Dangerous Visions.

The film was described by Harlan Ellison as " the finest SF movie ever made " and it holds a 98 % freshness rate at Rotten Tomatoes.

Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson were two engineers who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the lab's various computer projects.

Stewart and Harlan were conservative Republicans, while Brennan was a Democrat who became a leading voice for liberalism.

The first nominee to appear before the committee was Harlan Fiske Stone in 1925, who sought to quell concerns about his links to Wall Street, and the modern practice of questioning began with John Marshall Harlan II in 1955.

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

His statements in this respect call to mind the statements of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone who wrote " Chief US prosecutor Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg, I don't mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running a court and proceeding according to common law.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo ; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity for himself and his descendants.

Accounts differ as to the county's namesake: either Thomas Harlan, or James Harlan, who was U. S. Secretary of the Interior between 1865 and 1866.

* Harlan Harmon " Bo " Holleman, farmer and seed merchant who was the Republican nominee for U. S. House of Representatives in 1976, and served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas from 1980 until his death in 1982.

The settlement which became Harlan was first settled by Samuel and Chloe Howard in 1796, who allocated of their land to become the county seat in 1812.

Harlan is the site of a criminal case in which a man, Condy Dabney, was convicted in 1924 of murdering a person who was later found alive.

Justice John Marshall Harlan, who decried the excesses of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote a scathing dissent in which he predicted the court's decision would become as infamous as that of Dred Scott v. Sandford ( 1857 ).

The prospect of greater state influence in matters of race worried numerous advocates of civil equalities including Supreme Court justice John Harlan who wrote in his dissent of the Plessy decision, “ we shall enter upon an era of constitutional law, when the rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient protection which heretofore was unhesitatingly accorded to slavery and the rights of the master.

The protagonist is a Technician named Andrew Harlan, who finds himself involved in an ontological paradox orchestrated by his superiors.

This was intended merely to prove a point about the effect of Eternity on the individuals from real time who learn of it, but it has the unintended consequence of making Harlan besotted with the woman, so much so that he smuggles her into Eternity, since he has discovered that she will cease to exist in real time when the Eternals make their next Reality Change.

Instead she tells Harlan that her people, who prefer to watch past time rather than travel in it or change it, discovered that Eternity was, in choosing safety for humanity, suppressing creativity.

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

Other noteworthy artists who recorded for Emerson included John W. Myers, Henry Burr and The Peerless Quartet, Billy Golden, Collins & Harlan, Sally Hamlin, Dan Quinn, Sam Ash, Vernon Dalhart, Van & Schenk, Ada Jones, and Homer Rodeheaver.