Effinger, George Alec
d. 2002

Key Work: "Schrödinger's Kitten"

Elgin, Suzette Hayden

linguist

Key Work: Native Tongue

Ellison, Harlan
b. 1934

Iconoclastic, acerbic, and never boring, Ellison is an editor, short story writer, screenwriter, essayist, author of anti-technological fiction, and promulgator of the New Wave.

Key short stories include:

• "A Boy and His Dog," made into a film starring Don Johnson
• "Jeffy is Five"
• "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
• "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"

Ellison sponsored and edited two anthologies of the New Wave, collections of short stories purporting to challenge long-established, mostly sexual, taboos in science fiction:

• Dangerous Visions (1967)
• Again, Dangerous Visions (1972).

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