Harlan’s health isn’t all that great, IIRC. Didn’t he have major bypass surgery awhile back?
According to Wikipedia, the average life expectancy @ birth for a male in the US is 75.6 years. At 76 Harlan has passed that mark.
That doesn’t affect the rest of your reasoning, of course.
Repent, Harlequin!
Goodnight, little fuck.
I doubt it. I think a dog might just feel really sick, so it finds an out-of-the-way place to crash and hopefully heal where predators won’t find him so easily.
Ha! So there are at least *two *who doubt it. We’ll soon be able to provide our own cite for the original statement of plenty. (How many will we need to prove plenty right?)
This news makes me want to watch the Mitchell episode of MST3K.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
With this news, its chances of being published are looking up.
Damn. Now I’ll never find out what the lie was.
The linked article said his health’s been failing. He’s been an icon, and his presence will be missed.
Oh, Phuque, I suppose.
Pretty much summarizes my own take on Ellison. Hey, the brilliant can be, well, difficult, at times.
Ellison’s stories are never to be trusted. He frequently makes up things. Look at that list of what he did when running away as a kid. Look at this similar list in Wikipedia:
Is it really likely that someone could be a carny, a logger, a fisherman, a crop picker, a hired gun, a nitroglycerine truck driver, a cook, a taxi driver, a lithographer, a book salesman, a deparment store floorwalker, a door-to-door salesman, and an actor by the time he was 18?
“What would you say to a friendly little giant?”
I agree with those who say Ellison wrote some excellent work. But his death at this point will not cause us to lose any future works. Ellison essentially retired as an author back in the nineties (and virtually all of his significant work was done over thirty years ago). He’s one of those people who was big back in the sixties and has been trying to claim he’s still relevant ever since. So Ellison may actually be dying - or he may be proclaiming he’s dying to remind people he’s still alive.
He did good work in the 70’s and 80’s too, and I don’t think he’s ever been one to care about publicity for its own sake. I don’t think there’s anything extraordinary about a guy in his mid 70’s starting think about his own mortality and feeling he probably doesn’t have much time left, especially if he’s had major heart issues. Talking about it loudly would be right in keeping with his standard way of dealing with personal drama. He does all his reflecting out loud.
Beat me to it! 
:smack: 
Admittedly, I’ve never met the man. But dozens of anecdotes I’ve heard about him (as well as the fact that I’ve heard all these anecdotes) have convinced me otherwise. I feel that Ellison cares very much about self-publicity. Apparently more than he cares about anything else, including his literary output. After all, he was willing to give up on writing and editing but he’s still actively seeking attention.
How did you get a copy of my resume?
We’re coming to a time - we’ve been coming to it for decades, really - when it’s going to be a basic responsibility for a talented person to be a sonofa/bitch. A matter of conscience, if not brute survival.
Hey, I’ve been saying for years that’s science fiction is dead. And I sure don’t do it for the publicity!
I first met Harlan 40 years ago, a number that astounds me. Yes, he’s acted very badly in public at some times. He’s also done enormous amounts of good, both publicly and in private.
In the ranks of talented assholes in science fiction, a horde whose size and viciousness would make Genghis Khan proud, Harlan is more talented than most and has been surprised in assholicity by many, many others.