Overrated or deserving of praise?
>>24948849>Is this author that no one ever talks about anymore overrated or deserving of the praise he doesn't actually get anymoreGee I don't know anon
>>24948906>that no one ever talks about anymoreHe gets brought up fairly frequently amongst fans of speculative fiction, I don’t know what you’re on about.
>>24948911He is brought up within a niche of a niche. That's his legacy in today's literary world. Does Harlan Ellison, arguably one of the better scifi writers in the english language, deserve to be more than a topic of conversation within a niche of a niche, and probably only online to boot? Gee I don't know anon, you tell me.
>>24948919Are you capable of having a conversation with someone without being a sarcastic and condescending jerk or is it necessary for you in order to compensate for your false sense of superiority?
>>24948927You should be thankful that I'm bumping your retarded thread so that someone as stupid as you might see it and take your question seriously.
Good writer, shitty person. Many such cases.I regret not getting to see him at a convention the year before he died.
>>24948906>>24948919>>24948929unprecedented levels of reddit energy
>>24948940You probably go there given it's the only place Ellison is actively discussed.
>>24948942>no uyou have to go back
>>24948938Mid writer, GOAT person. His only works worth reading are the reviews where he shits on other people. He even reviewed video games.
>>24949021
More of an "industry figure" than a writer. Like a scifi Gertrude Stein. (Or less politely, a rider of coattails) Some of his stories are okay, but they aren't the reason he's a household name in the scifi world.
>>24948849An unsurpassed greedy kike goblin. Incel, snob, elitist, sexist, racist, plagiarist, sellout, rapist, pedophile and nepotist. Absolute unit of /ourguy/, definitely underrated.
>>24949108>racist, plagiarist, sellout, rapist, pedophile and nepotist.I’d heard about the rest but when was he accused of this stuff? I know he groped that woman on stage but i’d never heard him be accused of pedophilia
>>24949132Read the review of the star trek vidya posted in this thread, in which he confidently states that he is an experienced expert on measuring the sexual proficiency of pre-teens.
>>24948849His work is nothing but throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks and what did stick was his weird fetish piece that all of the autistic teenagers can watch videos about on YouTube. His work is nothing special if it was anything more than short stories they wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time at all. So yes he is overated
>>24949021>no 10 year old I've encountered...can fuck with any degree of expertiseWhat did he mean by this?
>>24949192based
https://youtu.be/Dr5NsTOXAyE?si=kiO1e7c_exXImusO
>>24948849Anyone who builds a personality and career off of being "a gadfly" needs to be floggedHe wrote 2 decent pieces of fiction iirc
>>24948906He gets brought up quite a bit. He's halfway between cult and popular.
>>24949021He's just a blowhard. You can do the same thing by believing every thought in your head deserves to be heard.
>>24948849The only short stories I read of him are his magnum opus and "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, the latter I didn't like. I can't say whether or not he's overrated but he definitely deserves some praise for his cultural impact. He's an interesting person to listen to for being a lone Jew from Ohio. His take on Israel and the greater ME is interesting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gtHQGbXmM
>>24949750>both sides are badHe didn't need to tell a 7 minute story to say that
>>24949764He questions the lineage of Jews today and insinuates that they, along with the rest of the inhabitants of the ME, are subhumans who can only kill each other and that the rest of the world needs to forget about them and stop trying to intervene.
>>24949750I actually quite liked Repent, Harlequin. It was a funny satirical story, it’s a pretty basic “authoritarianism mad mmkay?” kind of story but his writing style is entertaining.
He was a based, crotchety old man his entire life. An absolute legend.
