{"id":2659,"date":"2020-12-07T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&p=2659"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T03:15:56","slug":"harlan-ellison-on-his-anti-authoritarian-politics-and-the-honor-of-the-prometheus-award-his-2015-acceptance-speech-and-home-video","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/aiovg_videos\/harlan-ellison-on-his-anti-authoritarian-politics-and-the-honor-of-the-prometheus-award-his-2015-acceptance-speech-and-home-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlan Ellison on his anti-authoritarian politics and the honor of the Prometheus Award: His 2015 acceptance speech and home video"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sample excerpt from Harlan Ellison acceptance speech:
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\u201cI consider it to be a great honor. I take this award with considerable seriousness,\u201d Ellison said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I received the initial nomination (in 2011), I was enormously impressed….. George Orwell\u00a0(Animal Farm<\/i>), Rudyard Kipling\u00a0(\u201cAs Easy as A.B.C.\u201d),\u00a0<\/i>E.M. Forster\u00a0(\u201cThe Machine Stops\u201d)…\u00a0<\/i>That\u2019s pretty stiff competition to be in. It\u2019s now four years later, and I\u2019m very pleased to be getting the Prometheus Award.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harlan Ellison at the 1984 LA Worldcon (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been a Republican, never been a Democrat, communist, socialist, fascist or anything else,” Ellison said.<\/p>\n

“If you want to call me a libertarian, I have no objections… We\u2019ll sit down sometime and have our discussions.<\/p>\n

In the meantime,… I\u2019m enormously pleased to be getting this award.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Legendary sf writer Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) accepted the Prometheus Hall of Fame for Best Classic Fiction after the August 2015 Worldcon Prometheus Awards ceremony, which inducted \u201cRepent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman\u201d into the Hall of Fame.
\nEllison\u2019s 1965 short story portrays one man’s surrealist rebellion against a repressive future society obsessed with timeliness. The very personal and eloquent video includes a mini-tour of his home and description of many of his favorite awards, some reminiscences about his career, and a few political comments about his sympathy for libertarian ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}