Los Angeles Magazine, March 2024
THE LOST Aztec Temple of Mars has stood atop the hills of Sherman Oaks for decades, with a facade lovingly fashioned like the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Carved into its faded orange exterior is an imagined history of flying ships and extraterrestrials, of tangled tendrils and tentacles, of creatures
serpentlike and humanoid. This was the home of author Harlan Ellison, a sanctuary he also called Ellison Wonderland, where he wrote his popular scripts and short stories and kept its rooms filled with a museum-grade collection of science fiction and pop culture.
For Straczynski, 69, Ellison was not just a friend but a father figure of lasting impact. His real father, he says, "was complete shit." Another executor would have simply liquidated Ellison's assets, donated them to a favorite charity and moved on. But Straczynski has taken on a bigger mission - to return Ellison's name to prominence.
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