Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!muffy From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.games.trivia Subject: Re: 2 Old TV Shows...Who remembers...? Message-ID: <562@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Sat, 4-May-85 14:14:28 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.562 Posted: Sat May 4 14:14:28 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 20:35:08 EDT References: <220@petfe.UUCP> <527@moscom.UUCP> <2314@wateng.UUCP> Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 36 Xref: linus net.tv:2620 net.games.trivia:1366 In article <2314@wateng.UUCP> broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) writes: > > >The series was in fact called "The Starlost". It was conceived (and the >pilot was written) by Harlan Ellison. When Ellison saw the resulting >program, he was *extremely* unhappy with it, and refused to have his name >appear in the credits. (He supplied them with a pseudonym, "Cordwainer >Bird" that conveyed some small portion of his contempt). Ellison subse- >quently wrote a book called "The Starcrossed", dealing with the whole >incident. > >Ben Bova was the technical consultant for the series. > > >-- > -Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo) > ...decvax!watmath!wateng!broehl Not *quite*. Ellison was displeased well before seeing the pilot. He did not write "The Starcrossed" (a good book, though). Ben Bova wrote "The Starcrossed," which is a fictional version of what happened to "The Starlost." Bear in mind that this is *very* fictional. There is another book, "Phoenix Without Ashes," which is the novelization of the first (pilot) script that Ellison wrote. There are comments in the beginning of this book "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto," (more or less the title) is the essay, which has appeared other places, as well. Ed Bryant wrote the novelization of this script. At this year's Worldcon, someone asked Ed Bryant whether the other two scripts that Ellison wrote would ever get novellized (as had apparently been planned), but he said that was up to Ellison. The original script for "Phoenix Without Ashes" (*not* the one that was produced and shown) won an award, and is published in an anthology edited by George Zebrowski and Jack Dann, "Faster Than Light." Muffy