Constantly hyped and boasted about by its editor, Harlan Ellison, and frequently promised for imminent completion, the incontinently overlength book was subjected to years of editorial procrastination. Still available in new and s/h copies through Amazon, although because the book has become a collectible item (but presumably not by Mr Ellison’s admirers) prices are now somewhat inflated.Īwards: nominated for Hugo Award – Best Non-Fiction, 1994Īn enquiry into the facts behind the non-appearance of a science fiction anthology called The Last Dangerous Visions, a project that was originally announced in 1971 but which was never in fact completed or delivered to the publisher, let alone published. 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.Published: Fantagraphics Books, 1994.
t 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. 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 tha.
Anthologies seldom make history, but DANGEROUS VISIONS is a grand exception.
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