Dangerous Visions

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Anthologies seldom make history, but DANGEROUS VISIONS is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surprising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF. This anthology contains: Evensong by Lester del Rey; Flies by Robert Silverberg; The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl; Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer; The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord, A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch; The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison; The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W Aldiss; The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice by Howard Rodman, Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K Dick; The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven; Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber; Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L Hensley; Eutopia by Poul Anderson; Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R Bunch; The Doll-House by James Cross; Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller; Shall the Dust Praise Thee by Damon Knight; If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister by Theodore Sturgeon; What Happened to Auguste Clarot by Larry Eisenberg; Ersatz by Henry Slesar; Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman; The Happy Breed by John Sladek; Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand; From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville; Land of the Great Horses by R.A Lafferty; The Recognition by J.G Ballard; Judas by John Brunner; Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer; Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad; Auto-da-Fe by Roger Zelazny; and Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R Delany.

Harlan Ellison is a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning writer and editor. He wrote the script for the hugely popular Star Trek episode, The City on the Edge of Forever, the Nebula Award-winning novella, A Boy and His Dog and many acclaimed stories including 'Shatterday' and 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream'. His groundbreaking anthology DANGEROUS VISIONS was instrumental in defining the New Wave movement. Harlan Ellison lives in Los Angeles.

Dangerous Visions is a landmark in science fiction, one that can proudly stand against those literary snobs who look down their nose at the genre -- Antony Jones * SFBOOKREVIEWS blog *