bunsen_h

Ellison has a generally poor attitude about fans in general, at least a lot of the time. Many people have encountered him, made some polite comment, and been nastily snubbed. "Xenogenesis" was highly biased -- talk with Donald Kingsbury about his interaction with Ellison on that project, for example. I don't mean to suggest that there aren't some thoroughly noxious people in fandom, but I think that a lot of the unpleasantness that Ellison draws is a result of people echoing back his own behaviour.