[UA] Re: [OT] Reference?

[Stuart Anderson]

Kevin Elmore wrote:

> Okay, very OT, but could someone capsulize the
> facts/myths/urban legends about Ellison?  I know very
> little about him.  I didn't even know he was a Star Trek
> author until recently.

He has a memoir about the writing of his script for the episode
"City on the Edge of Forever." It's pretty amusing.
If I had to sum him up in the broad terms you're talking about,
I'd say in his early career, he was the living embodiment of
"Cocky." He came into his own in the rebellious 60s, telling
everyone where they could stick it. And he had enough juice
behind the typewriter to back it up. Now he's kind of a crusty
old Irascimancer who puts lippy aspiring writers in their place
during Q&As at World Horror Con appearances. I guess he has
Epstein-Barr, so it's hard for him to back the enormous projects
he used to, or work at the insane pace he used to. Consequently,
he's built up this bizarre anti-fan following that resent the
fact that he's not writing the incredibly cool stuff he *ought*
to be. (There has to be some UA magick potential in that
somewhere)

> And I'm always up for some scuttlebutt on people in the
> industry (especially when rival cliomancer game designers
> get pissy that people don't buy "Pharoah:  The Ruling").

I am, too, which is why I thought there might be more to the
story. Ellison crops up in weird places, so I wouldn't've been
surprised to find that he'd worked on or had input in a game I
hadn't heard of. And I keep hearing little bits about "I Have No
Mouth and I Must Scream" becoming a computer game, but I'm way
out of the loop on the computer stuff. So I thought that may
also have been the source of some gamedom acrimony.
_________________________________________________
--Stu
The Secret Lab
"He belonged to that particular race of men who
were their adversaries' greatest champions." Eco

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