Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos

Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books; more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns; two dozen teleplays, for which he received the Writers Guild of America most outstanding teleplay award for solo work an unprecedented four times; and a dozen movies. He won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award twice, the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker award six times (including The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Nebula three times, the Hugo 8½ times, and received the Silver Pen for Journalism from P.E.N. Not to mention The World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, two Audie Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and a Grammy nomination for Spoken Word recordings.He created great fantasies for The Twilight Zone (including Danny Kaye's final performance) and The Outer Limits; was credited as creative consultant on Babylon 5; sued Paramount and ABC-TV for plagiarism and won $337,000--and probably is the most contentious person now walking the Earth.