scomman wrote:http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harlan-ellison-20180628-story.html
He was a writer of several well loved Star Trek episode " City on the Edge of Forever" and The novels " The Boy and his Dog" and "I have no mouth but I must Scream"
Harlan wrote one episode of Star Trek. Just one. It was brilliantly written but never filmed. Instead Roddenberry & Co. filmed a portion of Ellison's script with Roddenberry re-writing some himself. Roddenberry was to a great extent a manipulative parasite. Gene Roddenberry's success was based in large part on ripping off those around him. In this he was wonderfully successful.
It's "A Boy and His Dog" not "The Boy..." And it's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" not "...but I must Scream"
Neither "A Boy and His Dog" nor "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" were novels --not even close. "A Boy and His Dog" was, years after its initial publication in 1969, rolled into a much larger work entitled
BLOOD'S A ROVER but even this was not marketed or sold as a novel. This contained three related stories, "Eggsucker," "Blood's a Rover," and "A Boy and His Dog"
No wonder Ellison was so fucking angry most of the time.
--Karl,