![]() ![]() He was the fast draw that all the gunslingers wanted to take on. I got to see Ellison lecture twice, and both times I hung around afterward when young people tried to disagree with him. But looking back through decades of hard-earned maturity, they now only look like clowns. Abbie Hoffman and Timothy Leary were cool too, in the sixties. Like I said, when I was young Ellison’s stories impressed me with all their screaming and sneering and self-righteousness. But now, I find its over-the-top wordy antics felt just like I felt watching the first episode of Batman back in 1966 - campy to the point of being embarrassing. Ellison’s razzle-dazzle prose to me is merely yelling, “Look at me! Look at me!” Sure, it’s a fun anti-establishment story from the 1960s. “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” won both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1966.īut I don’t know why. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it didn’t take long to become one of the most anthologized SF stories ever. Evidently, “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” wasn’t immediately recognized as a future classic. If you noticed, Ellison wasn’t mentioned on either cover nor did the story get any interior illustrations. ![]()
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