Harlan Ellison's input to B5

[zofran at deepthot.ml.org]

In <6j3ape$4n6$1 at news7.ispnews.com> xocxoc <paul at xocxoc.nu> wrote:
[. . .]
: I do not know if this story was written before or after  Ellison
: started working on B5, but the concepts of telepathic love making, brain
: scans, brain wipes, and telepathic background noise are all very similar to
: B5

These are all old tropes in science fiction, going back past THE
DEMOLISHED MAN, past SLAN.  



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