![]() ![]() The utter desert this was indeed, far more lonely than a sea of pure sand, just as a limitless bog is more lonely than the Pacific. No more hills, no insect, no life at all, not even any colors now, no shapes except the accidental curves of the centuries, no sound, no smell. There was no motion, no gesture except the monotonous trudging, the swaying back and forth on the camels’ backs, the limp and weary swaying of dark arms.Īn empty world. Their eyes peered through toward the east, embers half-dead glowing underneath the aching purple eyelids. They moved like dolls, as if their dark limbs were half unhinged. The porters covered their heads and faces. de la Scaze rode all day beneath curtains, in a kind of impromptu howdah. ![]() The men that day became effigies, horrible dolls. Any heat, any cold, any sort of sterile frightfulness seemed possible here. Nature lay there in front of them quite hideous and exposed, all of her pointlessness and boundlessness at last unmistakably obvious. Toward evening the world began to resemble a star spent, lifeless, purposeless. Listen to this, from the section called “Desert”: It’s seven people fleeing a Chinese war lord across the Gobi Desert. it was the 1937 Harper Prize-winning novel, but I’d never heard of it. I say, “I’m going to read, just sit and listen.” You can learn more from the chapter in The Outfit where he goes down south to buy the car. Read the first story, which is called “Anne,” and if it doesn’t break your heart and make you weep, I don’t know what will. If you’ve never read him, get a book called Lost Pages. I wish I could write 1/20th as well as Paul Di Filippo. Mark Twain, Gerald Kersh, Clark Ashton Smith, Joseph Conrad, comic books, Big Little Books, radio drama (especially “The Shadow”) and the best writer in America today, Paul Di Filippo. Name your writing influences: writers, books, teachers. I didn’t become a writer, I was a writer. I didn’t realize that everybody couldn’t write. Precisely.” Ellison suffered a stroke in 2014 and passed away at his home in Los Angeles in 2018.I always was. From time to time some denigrator or critic will say of my work, ‘He only wrote that to shock.’ I smile and nod. ![]() At Stephen King’s request, Ellison briefly described himself and his writing career as follows: “My stories go out from here and raise hell. Ellison is the winner of eight Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, and many other honors and accolades. He later helped adapt his story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” into a videogame of the same name, providing the voice of AM. Over his six-decade career, Ellison wrote more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, and essays, including a controversial Star Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Ellison was involved in multiple lawsuits against directors and movie studios he believed had ripped off his work. Famously combative, Ellison is just as notorious for his personality as he is for his prolific writing career. After being fired from Walt Disney Studios on his first day for making an inappropriate joke, Ellison continued to publish fiction and nonfiction pieces, and his work gradually gained a cult following. Before he made a name as a fiction writer, Ellison was a Hollywood screenwriter. ![]() Ellison worked an eclectic series of odd jobs as a young man, including a lithographer, a personal bodyguard, and a nitroglycerine truck driver. Born to Jewish parents, Ellison and his older sister, Beverly, were raised in Cleveland and Painesville, Ohio. ![]()
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