The Outer Limits episode The Demon with a Glass Hand is phenomenal. But I don't much like his other stuff. He was obviously a talented writer (I have no mouth but I must scream, for example) but I didn't like the dark tone. He never wrote a good novel as far as I know. It was all short stories.
Christopher Priest's (another cranky, talented writer) The Book on the Edge of Forever is a hilarious recounting of Ellison's sitting on a vast anthology worth's of other people's stories for Strange Visions 3. I wonder if it will get released now.
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