Re: OT: SF: Le Guin, Elgin, Spinrad, etc.

In a message dated 2004:04:09 04:56:11 PM, jq_ithkuil@INREACH.COM writes:

>For those old enough to remember, there was the short-lived sci-fi
>television series from the early 1970's called "The Starlost" about the
>inhabitants of a generation ship [...]The production values were terrible,
but since I >was only in my early teens at the time and ga-ga for sci-fi, I
loved the show.

    No accounting for taste, eh? ;)

>As I recall it was created by Harlan Ellison
    Yepyep, Edward Bryant and Harlan Ellison's _Phoenix Without Ashes_, is
based on the their original concept for the travesty called The Starlost TV
series.

> but he was so disgusted with what
>the producers did with his idea that he forced the studio to change his
>name on the credits to "Cordwainer Smith."
    IIRC "Cordwainer Jones." Ellison would not besmirch Cordwainer Smith's
good name as CS was/is one of Ellison's many literary influences (besides Alfred
Bester, Borges, Stanislaw Lem, Michael Moorcock, etc. ).

>  I wonder if it's available
>on video or DVD?
    I think I saw a recent review of the re-release of it on the Scifi.com
website - or some other sci-fi website.

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