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* People who asked him when ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]'' is going to be published.
* Similarities between his ''[[Outer Limits]]'' episodes and the film ''[[Terminator]]'', which led to a lawsuit and a credit for him in subsequent releases of the movie.
* The changes made to his script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" before it was filmed. It's worth remembering that his original version of the script won him one of his Writers Guild of America
** [[William Shatner]] said he attempted to talk to Ellison during the ordeal to try and calm things down. According to Shatner, Ellison responded by yelling at him.
** Apparently Paramount has taken the tactic of declaring most, if not all, elements of the story off-limits for the [[Expanded Universe]] after Ellison sued them (and the Writers Guild of America) for 25% of the royalties for every time they were used from 1967-2009. Paramount settled out of court.
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* Racism, as best illustrated in "From Alabamy, With Hate".
* [[wikipedia:Godel's incompleteness theorem|Anything not on this list.]]
* The longtime blackballing of [[A. E. van Vogt]] for the SFWA Grand Master Award.<ref>Which he finally received in 1995, largely due to Ellison's efforts.</ref>
* [[Small Reference Pools|Cultural illiteracy.]]
* [[Snopes]].
* Mistreatment of writers by studios. Which is ironic, because he also was rather contemptuous of TV.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE Attempts to persuade him that he should do something for free] that he felt entitled to be paid for.
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* "[[A Boy and His Dog]]"
* ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'' and ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]''
** But not ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]''. Yet.
* "[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]"
* ''[[Spider Kiss]]''
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* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: "Seeing" revolves around a woman whose mutated eyes allow her to see in ways that normal eyes (and brains) can't begin to process. She hates her vision because it's made her life miserable.
* [[Death by Sex]]: Implied for {{spoiler|humanity as a whole}} at the end of "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?"
* [[Development Hell]]: ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]'' — originally announced to be published in 1973, [https://lamag.com/books/harlan-ellison-last-words-dangerous-visions-sci-fi-writer-posthumous-comeback planned to be published in 2024].
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin"
* [[Earth-That-Was]]/[[Mercy Kill]]: "The Deathbird".
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