ELLISON IN SCI-FI UNIVERSE

SCI - FI  UNIVERSE  must rank as one of the best  genre magazines to emerge from the glut of  similar titles during the 1990's. 


And their interview with the late Harlan Ellison was a humdinger.


The irascible writer made no secret of his loathing for both the phenomenon of   STAR   TREK  and its fans.


This was actually one part of a three part interview,  the other parts being published in  COMIC BUYERS  GUIDE   and  HERO ILLUSTRATED .


Sadly I don't have those parts to hand for scanning. 

ELLISON REVIEWS ST:TMP

Again,  from the pages of   STARLOG  -  Harlan Ellison's  review of   STAR  TREK :  THE MOTION   PICTURE.

ELLISON VS CONNERY

After  taking Mark Hamill to task over  STAR WARS ,   Harlan Ellison also subjected  Sean Connery to the same treatment over his remarks on the script for OUTLAND.




First of all, the interview with  Connery :

and then Ellison's angry riposte a few issues later :

WHO - ZINES IN SFX

From a recent issue of   SFX,   a nice if  rather brief article on Dr Who fanzines .

ELLISON IN FUTURE LIFE

Another interview with the late  Harlan  Ellison,  this time in   STARLOG's  sister title   FUTURE LIFE .


At one point,  Ellison also wrote a regular column for the magazine.

ELLISON VS HAMILL IN STARLOG

After  Harlan  Ellison's  famously  negative  review  of    STAR WARS  ,    Mark Hamill   retaliated in  this  STARLOG  interview  :

Needless to say ,  Ellison  dashed off an angry letter in reply  ;

The pair later made up after Ellison wrote a more positive review of   EMPIRE  STRIKES  BACK.


The writer also took Sean Connery  to task in another letter over the  script for   OUTLAND.




I also recall an Ellison interview from the 90's magazine  SCI-FI  UNIVERSE  in which his antipathy for STAR TREK  and its fans reached new heights.


His involvement with  BABYLON 5  would partly account for this since the two shows were by then deadly rivals.


I'll post that interview here at some point.

HARLAN ELLISON IN STARLOG

Life   was never dull when the late  Harlan Ellison was around.


As these interviews from  STARLOG  prove,  he didn't suffer fools gladly  and took no prisoners .


But he  was always entertaining and  gave  great  quote.


Love  him or loathe him ,  agree with him or disagree ,  he was impossible to ignore.


Despite his  aversion to  Star  Trek  and being  labelled a  sci-fi writer,   he was very much  a major force in the genre.


At one point during the 90's,  it seemed that I couldn't go into  Forbidden Planet  without  buying some new collection of his work  including the original script book for  City on the Edge of  Forever.


And he was a frequent presence in the pages of   STARLOG  during its golden era  (   issues 1- 100  )


Apart from these interviews,   he also contributed a  memorable  review of   STAR  TREK : THE MOTION  PICTURE  and  several angry letters on various actors who had  annoyed him.


Here  is an interview from  STARLOG  issue  8 :

and from issues 100 -101  :