![]() He also had a reputation for being, as Jason Sheehan called him in a review of his 2015 collection Can and Can'tankerous, "America's weird uncle." Words like that one from the title - "cantankerous" - and "irascible" and "difficult" followed him for much of his life. ![]() He wrote episodes of Star Trek ("The City on the Edge of Forever" won him a Writer's Guild of America Award), as well as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. Like many who write short stories and novellas in genres like speculative fiction, the sweep of his career is evident in his collection of awards: Hugo Awards, Nebula Awards, Edgar Awards and many others. Science fiction writer and provocateur Harlan Ellison, who wrote stories including "Jeffty Is Five," "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," died in his sleep at home in Los Angeles at age 84. ![]() Book Reviews Harlan Ellison Returns With A 'Can'tankerous' New Collection ![]()
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