hat single sound itself. Acknowledgments I am indebted to conversations and/or improvisa- tions with Maryann Amacher, John Amuedo, Betty Dexter, Harlan Ellison, Edward Fredkin, Bernard Greenberg, Danny Hillis, Douglas Hofstadter, William Komfeld, Andor Kovach, David Levitt, Tod Machover, Charlotte Minsky,

— a piece for Variety about 1968, this year marking the 50th anniversary, and a book review for the LA Times, a biography of =cience-fiction author Harlan Ellison. I'll have my own book, 60 =ears of Investigative Satire, published in 2019 for a $2000 advance. Andy Borowitz has written an introduction, and Art

ERSIGHT_015383 The last time | saw him was in 1987 on a Saturday evening at the Hollywood Press Club, where we were both participants at a roast for Harlan Ellison, the prolific author of fantasy, science-fiction and speculative- fiction, his work including 1,700 short stories. He also had a reputation for angry