Despite the Ticktockman, the timekeeper who collects time as a punishment, and being sent to Coventry, the Harlequin revolts to create tardiness. 'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman - Famous short story where time is regulated and being late is a crime.Ham on Rye - Semi-autobiographical 'coming-of-age' novel, telling the story of a young man growing up in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.Factotum - Bukowski recounts the conditions in 1944 having faced rejection from the draft, yo-yoing in and out of employment.

Post Office - The job as a postal worker is a thankless one as Bukowski tries to keep his sanity delivering mail around Los Angeles.

Gully Foyle is marooned in space with a material that could destroy the universe.

The Stars My Destination - In a world where transportation is possible with a thought, prisoners break free, economies crash and the slums emptied.

For someone like me that's the furthest thing from whimsy imaginable. A whimsical rebellion? The story takes place in a world where being late is a crime. They settled out of court, and Ellison got acknowledgment on The Terminator, over (James) Cameron’s objections. Finally, he ended up suing Orion and Hemdale, alleging that The Terminator took liberties with his “Soldier” and “Demon With A Glass Hand” episodes of The Outer Limits. Later, he feuded with Gene Roddenberry over rewrites to the Star Trek episode he scripted, and once, when asked by Warner Bros after the success of Star Wars to adapt Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, he was dropped after telling then-studio head Robert Shapiro that he had the intellectual capacity of an artichoke. Disney overheard him musing about his desire to write a porno film featuring Disney characters. He got a job writing at Disney but lasted less than a day, after Roy O. ' Why would Ellison wait so long? He has had a tough time in Hollywood, and it sounds like a lot of it is because of his uncompromising manner. Check out Deadline's inside line on what took Ellison so long: Straczynski, Ellison-approved script in hand is said to be approaching Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro to direct.

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