Harlan Ellison

writer
Novelette

Soldier from Tomorrow


Qarlo Clobregnny (aka pryt sizfifwunohtootoonyn), psychologically and physically conditioned as a foot soldier from the moment of birth, is transported from the time of Great War VII to a 1950s subway platform where he and his story eventually become a force in an unexpected direction.

A few years later, the story was the basis of an Outer Limits episode.
No matter how violent, how involved, how pushbutton-ridden Wars became, it always simmered down to the man on foot. It had to, for men fought men still.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

The Outer Limits (v1s02e01)

Soldier


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek (s01e28)

The City on the Edge of Forever


After a delirious Bones hurtles through a time portal to the 1930s, Kirk and Spock follow to save him and stop dangerous changes to the timeline, no matter the cost. —Michael Main
Joan Collins (as Edith Keeler) and William Shatner (as James T. Kirk), dressed
                in duffle coats, on a city sidewalk, looking toward the night sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World

  • by Harlan Ellison
  • in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, October 1967)

A pedestrian blood-and-guts version of Jack the Ripper is pulled from 1888 into a sterile city of the future where he promptly slays Hernon’s granddaughter, an occurrence that leaves the equally evil Hernon unrattled.
He had looked up as light flooded him in that other place. It had been soot silent in Spitalfields, but suddenly, without any sense of having moved or having been moved, he was flooded with light. And when he looked up he was in tht other place. Paused now, only a few minutes after the transfer, he leaned against the bright wall of the city, and recalled the light.
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  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Beast That Shouted Love


For me, this nontraditional story didn’t bring any clarity to the notion of evil—but perhaps that’s what was intended, to artistically portray the incomprehensible nature of evil. Still, even without clarity, it was worth reading the award-winning story of evil being distilled and somehow sent throughout time by two future aliens: it stretched my understanding of story and helped me comprehend The Incredible Hulk 140.
Seven dog-heads slept. 
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  • Science Fiction
  • Experimental
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Come to Me Not in Winter’s White


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

  • by Harlan Ellison
  • in Orbit 8, edited by Damon Knight (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, December 1970)

At 42, Gus Rosenthal is in a place of security, importance, recognition—in short, the perfect time to dig up that toy soldier that he buried in his back yard 30 years ago with the knowledge that doing so will take him back to that time to be an influence on an angry, bullied 12-year-old Gus.
My thoughts were of myself: I’m coming to save you. I’m coming, Gus. You won’t hurt any more. . . you’ll never hurt.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story
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  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Paladin of the Lost Hour

  • by Harlan Ellison
  • in Universe 15, edited by Terry Carr (Doubleday, August 1985)

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  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Feature Film

The Twilight Zone (v2s01e07b)

Paladin of the Lost Hour


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  • Hugo
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

7 Against Chaos


Paul Chadwick’s exquisitely detailed and dynamic art illustrates Harlan Ellison’s story of a band of seven resilient misfits from across the solar system who are led by the deeply scarred Roack, hoping to bring an end to the time chaos that plagues Earth.

The work comes across as dated, but still, I enjoyed seeing the latest work from my childhood friend, Paul Chadwick.
The crisis computers say the structure of Earth’s local field of time itself is collapsing. Eras are mixing.
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  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel