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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: chuckdee on Fri, 29 June 2018, 09:56:44

Title: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: chuckdee on Fri, 29 June 2018, 09:56:44

Harlan Ellison was one of the most influential writers of short fiction and nonfiction of the 20th century, writing in every genre he could and protesting any attempt to pigeonhole his work.

RIP.

Quote

“For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”

Harlan Ellison Obituary on TOR (https://www.tor.com/2018/06/28/harlan-ellison-1934-2018-obituary/)

Title: Re: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 29 June 2018, 10:35:24

Now that's the hack in geekhack.

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Title: Re: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: chuckdee on Fri, 29 June 2018, 15:49:32

Quote from: SpAmRaY on Fri, 29 June 2018, 10:35:24

Now that's the hack in geekhack.

Not sure that I get that...

Title: Re: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 29 June 2018, 15:57:32

Quote from: chuckdee on Fri, 29 June 2018, 15:49:32

Quote from: SpAmRaY on Fri, 29 June 2018, 10:35:24

Now that's the hack in geekhack.

Not sure that I get that...

Sorry. Everybody always assume it's hack for hacking but it's hack as in writer/author.

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Title: Re: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 29 June 2018, 18:26:47

Ellison was hardly a hack, and his real talent was as an editor and promoter. He was good at irritating people.
 

Title: Re: RIP Harlan Ellison
Post by: chuckdee on Sat, 30 June 2018, 00:26:10

Quote from: fohat.digs on Fri, 29 June 2018, 18:26:47

Ellison was hardly a hack, and his real talent was as an editor and promoter. He was good at irritating people.

I'd agree based on the traditional definition of a hack, i.e. a writer that writes purely for money.  He was very passionate (read irritating) about his beliefs, and what he was writing.