The other principle element here is Ellison's introductions - the anthology contains a number of forewords and each story/author is introduced with a little two or three page essay. Dick in his story 'The Story to End All Stories For Harlan Ellison's Anthology Dangerous Visions'. Similarly, as is common with the likes of anthology tv of the era, sometimes the twist or the moral of the story can end up reading as subtly as a brick to the face, a property masterfully lampooned by Philip K. Like a lot of SF from the period, it's very 'of its time', which principally manifests in one of a couple of ways: either the 'dangerous vision' seems quite tepid and milquetoast when read from a perspective of 2021 (Homosexuality! Drugs!), or the thrust of the stories seems quite backwards and old-fashioned a little bigoted, even. I finally finished 'Dangerous Visions' - the celebrated 60s anthology of SF and speculative-fiction stories, edited by Harlan Ellison. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.So. Ballard | Judas by John Brunner | Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer | Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad | Auto-da-Fe by Roger Zelazny | Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. 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. Bunch | The Doll-House by James Cross | Sex and/or Mr. Hensley | Eutopia by Poul Anderson | Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R. Dick | The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven | Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber | Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Aldiss | The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice by Howard Rodman | Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. 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:Įvensong 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. Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception.

Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison