Harlan Ellison In Memoriam (1934-2018)
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Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the career of noted science-fiction author Harlan Ellison. Although his most widely seen work is the Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever, he also wrote hundreds of short stories and dozens of screenplays and teleplays over the years. He also wrote several nonfiction columns on film, television, and writing featuring his epic rants.

In the 1990s, Harlan Ellison helped create and even voiced a character in a computer game adaptation of his award-winning short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. His novella A Boy and His Dog was adapted into a movie in 1975 starring Don Johnson. Ellison was a creative consultant for the legendary science-fiction series Babylon 5. His memoir, A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, was released in 2017. His final printed work in his lifetime was Blood's A Rover, a compilation of the novella, screenplay, and short stories set in the A Boy and His Dog universe. 

A paragon for writer's rights, he successfully sued James Cameron for stealing the idea for The Terminator from some of Ellison's episodes of The Outer Limits. He suffered no fools, spoke his mind, and shall always be remembered.

Mat had some fun playing realMyst: Masterpiece Edition, a mixed update of the classic Myst computer game. Thrasher loved The Disaster Artist, a film about the making of the Tommy Wiseau cult classic The Room.

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