对哈兰·埃里森生活的一次不加防范、不受审查、不安静的旅行。
2011年末，哈兰·埃里森（Harlan Ellison）做了两件不同寻常的事。他曾多次获奖，著有投机性小说，并以爱打官司著称。首先，他问传记作家纳特·塞加洛夫是否有兴趣写自己的人生故事。第二，他给了塞加洛夫完全的控制权。其结果是人们期待已久的导火索：哈兰·埃里森的挑衅性生活。这是埃里森第一次允许他大量的不同作品出现在这样的项目中。
塞加洛夫在五年的时间里对埃里森进行了详尽的采访，并与他的许多朋友和敌人进行了交谈，试图了解这个人，并确定最著名的“哈兰故事”他们广泛的讨论涵盖了他受欺凌的童年、他传奇般的婚姻、他传说中的诉讼，以及他强迫性的写作过程，比以往任何时候都更加深入和详细。但它也深入探究了这个人根深蒂固的原则，他的恐惧，以及驱使他83年（迄今为止）生活的恶魔。朋友、同事和崇拜者，如尼尔·盖曼、巴顿·奥斯沃尔特、彼得·大卫、罗伯特·索耶、迈克尔·斯科特、爱德华·阿斯纳、伦纳德·尼莫伊、埃德·布莱恩特、艾伦·布伦纳特、罗伯特·西尔弗伯格，以及许多其他知名人士都加入了他们的声音。
在阅读的过程中，读者会看到对康妮·威利斯争议的分析、臭名昭著的死地鼠故事，据称是把风扇推下电梯井的故事，以及最后一次危险幻象的总结。这是一幅丰富的肖像画，描绘了一个一生都在与时代和自己作斗争的人，总是挑战他的读者，让他们达到更高的境界，并激励自己去实现。这很有趣，明智，令人震惊，是哈兰。
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison
An unguarded, uncensored, unquiet tour of the life of Harlan Ellison.
In late 2011 Harlan Ellison—the multi-award-winning writer of speculative fiction and famously litigious personality—did two uncharacteristic things. First, he asked biographer Nat Segaloff if he’d be interested in writing his life story. Second, he gave Segaloff full control. The result is the long-anticipated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison. The expansive biography, which is the first such project in which Ellison has permitted large portions of his varied works to appear.
Segaloff conducted exhaustive interviews with Ellison over the course of five years and also spoke with many of his friends and enemies in an effort to get inside the man and pin down the best-known “Harlan stories.” Their wide-ranging discussions cover his bullied boyhood, his storied marriages, his fabled lawsuits, and his compulsive writing process with more depth and detail than has ever before appeared in print. But it also delves deeply into the man’s deeply held principles, his fears, and the demons that have driven him all of his 83 (so far) years. Friends, colleagues, and admirers such as Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, Robert Silverberg, and many other notables add their voices.
Along the way the reader is treated to an analysis of the Connie Willis controversy, the infamous dead gopher story, allegedly pushing a fan down an elevator shaft, and the final word on The Last Dangerous Visions. What emerges is a rich portrait of a man who has spent his life doing battle with his times and himself, always challenging his readers to reach for a higher plane and goading himself to get them there. It’s funny, wise, shocking, and—well, it’s Harlan.
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