Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

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.

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.

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.

A special version of the kettle has been built, however, for Harlan to dispatch a young Eternal, one Brinsley Sheridan Cooper, back to the 24th century, which lies “ beyond the downwhen terminus ” accessible via Eternity and its kettle system.

However Harlan, filled with malice after ( erroneously ) concluding that Twissell has trapped him and will deprive him of Noÿs, scrambles the time settings just as the special kettle departs.

Harlan at first intends to kill Noÿs and carry out his mission, but in comparing her story to that of the freakish and occasionally inhuman Eternals he has encountered, Harlan confirms his lingering suspicions that Eternity has been wrong for humanity.

In the 1895 in the case of Sparf v. United States written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, the United States Supreme Court held 5 to 4 that a trial judge has no responsibility to inform the jury of the right to nullify laws.

Writer Harlan Ellison has praised Quiet, Please!

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.

Harlan Ellison has won three times out of eight nominations, both the highest number of wins and the highest number of nominations of any author.

The head of Spectacular Optical, Barry Convex ( Leslie Carlson ), has been secretly working with Harlan to get Max exposed to Videodrome and to have him broadcast it, as part of a crypto-government conspiracy to morally and ideologically " purge " North America, giving fatal brain tumours to " lowlifes " fixated on extreme sex and violence.

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.

By the time Holmes was 80, he had dissented in so many opinions that he became known as " The Great Dissenter ," a title which has been carried through the years to refer to various U. S. Supreme Court justices, including Justice John Marshall Harlan, with the latest being Justice William Brennan.

Noted amateur etymologist Barry Popik has traced the term " gun slinger " back to its use in the 1920 Western movie Drag Harlan.

The penumbra-based rationale of Griswold has since been discarded ; the Supreme Court now uses the Due Process Clause as a basis for various unenumerated privacy rights, as Justice Harlan had argued in his concurring Griswold opinion, instead of relying on the " penumbras " and " emanations " of the Bill of Rights as the majority opinion did in Griswold.

: Pepper's family has raised a variety of hounds for generations, and Harlan continues the tradition by raising bloodhounds ( though he has aspirations of becoming a ventriloquist ).

Harlan is sometimes called the " great dissenter " of the Warren Court, and has been described as one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in the twentieth century.

One of Eve's children, Amelia Newcomb, is the international news editor at The Christian Science Monitor and has two children: Harlan, named after John Marshall Harlan II, and Matthew Trevithick.

Every Supreme Court nominee since Harlan has been questioned by the Judiciary Committee before confirmation.