Dangerous Visions
Dangerous Visions was a path-breaking science fiction short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and published in 1967. It was a defining work of the New Wave science fiction movement, particularly in its depiction of sex in science fiction.
The anthology contains many classic stories, and the list of authors reads like a Who's Who of 1960s science fiction talent.
Dangerous Visions was followed by a second collection, Again, Dangerous Visions. A projected third collection, The Last Dangerous Visions, has yet to be published. Ellison has been severely criticized for not publishing the volume or returning control of the stories to their authors, some of whom have since died. British SF author Christopher Priest's lengthy attack on Ellison about this was published as The Last Deadloss Visions in the UK and as The Book on the Edge of Forever in the US. The essay was once available online but Priest has since requested the essay be withdrawn from the internet.
Anthology contents
Dangerous Visions
Published in 1968 (ISBN 0425061760)
- Auto-Da-Fe by Roger Zelazny
- Aye, and Gomorrah... by Samuel R. Delany
- Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad
- The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
- The Doll-House by James Cross
- Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand
- Ersatz by Henry Slesar
- The Escaping by David R. Bunch
- Eutopia by Poul Anderson
- Evensong by Lester del Rey
- Faith of our Fathers by Philip K. Dick
- Flies by Robert Silverberg
- Foreword 1 - The Second Revolution by Isaac Asimov
- Foreword 2 - Harlan and I by Isaac Asimov
- From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville
- Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman
- Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber
- The Happy Breed by John Sladek
- If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
- Incident in Moderan by David R. Bunch
- The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven
- Judas by John Brunner
- Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty
- Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Hensley
- The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord
- The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice by Howard Rodman
- The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss
- The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch
- The Recognition by J. G. Ballard
- Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer
- Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller
- Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight
- Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer
- Thirty-Two Soothsayers by Harlan Ellison
- A Toy for Juliette by Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch
- What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg
Again Dangerous Visions
Published in 1972 (ISBN 0425061825)
Dangerous Visions 3
Published in 1974 (ISBN 0722132999)