Editing Harlan Ellison (section)

===Vietnam War opposition and AggieCon I===
Ellison was among those who in 1968 signed an anti-[[Vietnam War]] advertisement in ''Galaxy Science Fiction''.<ref name="Galaxy1968">{{Cite magazine |date=June 1968 |title=Paid Advertisement |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction |pages=4–11}}</ref> In 1969, Ellison was Guest of Honor at [[Texas A&M University]]'s first science fiction convention, [[AggieCon]], where he reportedly<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://efanzines.com/SFSF/SFSF30.pdf |title=Science Fiction/San Francisco |date=September 30, 2006 |page=5 |access-date=August 16, 2008 |archive-date=August 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830033428/http://efanzines.com/SFSF/SFSF30.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> referred to the university's [[Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets|Corps of Cadets]] as "America's next generation of Nazis", inspired in part by the Vietnam War. Although the university was no longer solely a military school (from 1965), the student body was predominantly made up of cadet members. Between Ellison's anti-military remarks and a food fight that broke out in the ballroom of the hotel where the gathering was held (although, according to Ellison in 2000, the food fight actually started in a [[Denny's]] because the staff disappeared and they could not get their check), the school's administration almost refused to approve the science fiction convention the next year and no guest of honor was invited for the next two AggieCons. Ellison was subsequently invited back as Guest of Honor for AggieCon V (Jack Bosa)(1974).<ref name="cepharch">{{cite web |url=https://findingaids.library.tamu.edu/index.php/cepheid-variable-aggiecon-collection |title=Cepheid Variable - AggieCon Collection |website=Texas A&M University Library |access-date=August 13, 2024 |quote="His visit was culminated by a meal function at the Ramada Inn, recalled by many for a 'food fight' among other things. Cepheid was dissolved as a club, in part due to issues with the hotel."}}</ref>