[Excalibur] Fwd: Harlan Ellison to speak at BU

[John C. Watson]

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--- Ronald Soulliard <roaric at bu.edu> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:44:02 -0400
> From: Ronald Soulliard <roaric at bu.edu>
> To: umsfs at yahoo.com
> Subject: Harlan Ellison to speak at BU

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Author HARLAN ELLISON to speak at Friends Speaker Series



Author, screenwriter and futurist Harlan Ellison will be speaking at the
second Friends Speaker Series Event of the season on Tuesday October 11,
2005.  The event begins at 5:30 pm and will be held in the Metcalf Ballroom
on the second floor of the George Sherman Union at 775 Commonwealth Avenue.
The evening will feature a talk by Mr. Ellison followed by a "Question &
Answer" period with audience members, and a reception. Admission is free to
members of the Friends, $25 per person for non-members, and free to Boston
University students.  We request that students RSVP to 617-353-3697 or
friends at bu.edu.


Harlan Ellison has written or edited 76 books; more than 1700 stories,
essays, articles, and newspaper columns; two dozen teleplays; and a dozen
movies. He is best known for his short fiction which includes "'Repent,
Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", first published in 1965, now one of the
ten most reprinted stories in the English language; "I Have No Mouth, and I
Must Scream" (1967); and "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore", a
"magic-realist" novelette that was included in THE BESTAMERICAN SHORT
STORIES for 1993.


Ellison hasalso written legendary television episodes and is credited with
setting the highest standards for the medium. His more than forty years in
Hollywood includes work for the 1985 CBS revival of _The Twilight Zone_
series, _Babylon 5_, and "The City on the Edge of Forever", considered the
most popular episode for the original _Star Trek_ series (1966). Ellison
also wrote for _The Alfred Hitchcock Hour_, _The Outer Limits_, _Route 66_,
and _Batman_.


Ellison's work as an editor has been both acclaimed and influential,
especially his collections DANGEROUS VISIONS (1967) and its sequel AGAIN,
DANGEROUS VISIONS (1972). In these books he published specially-written
original fiction by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Samuel R. Delany, Philip
K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut considered too daring or experimental for
mass-market periodicals to handle.


Harlan Ellison has traveled with the Rolling Stones; marched with Martin
Luther King, Jr. From Selma to Montgomery; covered race riots in Chicago
with James Baldwin; and sung with Maurice Chevalier. He has received
numerous awards ranging from the World Fantasy and Horror Writers
Association Lifetime Achievement Awards to the Silver Pen for Journalism
from P.E.N., to more Nebulas, Hugos, and Locus awards than any other living
fantasist, the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America
(twice) and an unprecedented 4-time win of the Writers Guild of America's
Most Outstanding Script Award. Harlan Ellison has said he is a writer
"because I cannot not write. That's what I do."

The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center houses the archives of more than
2,000 important figures.

<http://www.bu.edu/archives/>

For more information, please contact the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research
Center at 617-353-3696 or send an email to <friends at bu.edu>.

-- 
Ciao,
     John

John C. Watson
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