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* "[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]", Hugo-Award-winning 1967 short story and the 1995 computer game based on it, which he wrote and [[Large Ham|starred in]] as the voice of AM.
* Editor of ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'' and ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'', ground-breaking sf anthologies published 1967 and 1972; ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]'' [[Development Hell|was announced in 1973]], and [[Blatant Lies|he still insists that he'll get around to releasing it one of these days]].
* "The City on the Edge of Forever", Hugo-Award-winning 1967 episode of ''[[Star Trek: The
* "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World", Hugo-Award-winning 1968 short story
* "[[A Boy and His Dog]]", Nebula-Award-winning 1969 short story made into Hugo-Award-winning 1974 film
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* ''The Glass Teat'' and ''The Other Glass Teat'', a two-book collection of television and social criticism.
* Was hired by [[Warner Brothers]] in the late 1970s to write a film adaptation of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''I, Robot''; the script (which is available in book format) is highly-regarded by those who have read it, but the project fell apart after Ellison accused a studio exec of having the intellectual capacity of an artichoke.
* Was also given a crack at the script for ''[[Star Trek: The
* "Jeffty is Five", a Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning 1977 short story.
* Conceptual consultant on ''[[Babylon 5]]'' (and made a couple of guest appearances)
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* Racism, as best illustrated in "From Alabamy, With Hate".
* [[wikipedia:Godelchr(27)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.
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* [[The Gadfly]]: And proud!
* [[Gainax Ending]]: "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" was published with two possible endings. One is more straight and tragic, the other makes your head hurt as it can ''almost'' understand it.
* [[God Is Evil]]:
** Probably the best way to explain "The Region Between."
** He wrote a whole collection - ''Deathbird Stories''- around this trope.
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* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]/[[Humans Are Morons]]
* [[In Medias Res]]
* [[Jewish Mother]]: Taken to a horrifying extreme in "Mom" - the titular mother comes back as a disembodied voice after she dies just so she can continue nagging her son.
* [[Large Ham]]:
** His voice acting in ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]].'' (TEEEEEEEEDDDD!)
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* [[Space Jews]]: In "I'm Looking For Kadak".
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: ''Many'' of his stories about his interactions with Hollywood/other writers have gotten called into question by the rest of the science fiction community. Ellison is one of those people who won't let the truth get in the way of a good story; take anything he says with a salt mine.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: His script for a film adaptation of ''[[I, Robot (literature)|I, Robot]]''.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Very famously, Ellison neither drinks nor smokes nor gets blasted out of his mind on acid ''ever''. [[Badass|He used to smoke a pipe,]] but quit that years ago.
** Many people attending science fiction conventions in the late 60s and early 70s remember Ellison as smelling so strongly of pot you could get high standing next to him. He has often railed against ''hard'' drugs, though.
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