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Late-breaking news! Harlan Ellison is not a science fiction writer!
So says the man himself in this audio interview with @Studio 360. Ellison (Dreams with Sharp Teeth) says he has "never written science fiction" but has "occasionally used some of the furniture from that genre".
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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday May 30, 2009 at 12:55 AM
© 2009 SF Signal
a) He's always pretty much alwasy claimed this.
b) He's right about some of his work, wrong about the rest.
Posted by Greg G on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 3:08 AM
Yeah, he even walked out of a TV-interview once because the announcer called him science fiction writer.
Posted by Saibot on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Now he tells us!
Oh, Harlan, protest all you want but we're claiming you anyway. Maybe not every story is science fiction, but you write science fiction. You're a science fiction writer. Sorry.
Posted by Joe Sherry on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 7:53 AM
that's old news. he's always considered his own as "speculative fiction."
but here we go once again with the labels!
Posted by f. on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 10:18 AM
He didn't really write a story about killer robots time travelling from the future to change the past.
Posted by The Baron on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Its actually an interview from last year...
http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=2678
Posted by Jesse Willis on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Time to hand back all those Hugo and Nebula awards then.
Posted by JDsg on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Here is an old interview were he says the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lax0g5d6gM
Posted by Saibot on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM
In fairness, Ellison has always quibbled about the terms. But Lord, I am so tired of this.
Posted by Lou Anders on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM
see also: Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro,.
Posted by Harris Yulin's Goatee on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Where did you get a picture of Harlan as a zombie?
Posted by Michael Natale on Sunday May 31, 2009 at 7:38 AM
For some reason when Harlan Ellison denies being a science fiction writer it doesn't annoy me as much as when other people does it. I mean, he is Harlan ****ing Ellison.
Posted by Saibot on Sunday May 31, 2009 at 10:21 AM
As a writer, science fiction or otherwise, I don't give a hoot what I'm called as long as I'm called for the interviews! But then, I haven't sold as many copies of books as Harlan Ellison has over the years. Check out my first and recently released novel, Long Journey to Rneadal. This novel is a romantic action adventure in space and is more about the characters than the technology.
Posted by Sharon E. Dreyer on Tuesday June 02, 2009 at 2:04 PM