In a message dated 10/27/2007 12:15:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight
Time,
dz@hardluckstories.com writes: When I was in High School
I went to Boston's first Star Trek convention
(1976) and wandered into this room where this guy was on
stage talking about committing one heinous act after the
other. It was spellbinding, and being a dense kid, I sat
listening for about 10 minutes before I realized he was an
author reading one of his works. It turned out to be Harlan
Ellison, and I was hooked on his writing from that day
on.
That's funny. As a graduate student, probably in '77, I met
him at an SF and Fantasy conference where he was giving out
free signed paperbacks, along with Stephen King and others. I
got my free book and when the line went down, I walked back
up to Ellison, pointed at his stack of books and asked, "Can
we have seconds?" meaning, can we conference goers. He said
in a loud voice,
"Sex! You want to have sex on the table!" I could tell he
loved embarrassing me. We didn't--or I wouldn't be telling
this--but that was my introduction to him. I do think he's
one of the best SF writers, so I'm wondering if he's still
writing. He was insistent on not being called a science
fiction writer, however. He just wanted to be known for
"fiction," but he lost that battle over and over. Vicki
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