Dangerous Visions

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Published Jan. 3, 2002

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978-0-7434-5261-8
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Dangerous Visions is a science fiction short story anthology edited by American writer Harlan Ellison and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. It was published in 1967. A path-breaking collection, Dangerous Visions helped define the New Wave science fiction movement, particularly in its depiction of sex in science fiction. Writer/editor Al Sarrantonio writes how Dangerous Visions "almost single-handedly [...] changed the way readers thought about science fiction." Contributors to the volume included 20 authors who had won, or would win, a Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, or BSFA award, and 16 with multiple such awards. Ellison introduced the anthology both collectively and individually while authors provided afterwords to their own stories.

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I probably skipped up to half the stories. This book is quite a mixed bag - some great stories that I remember decades after I first read them, and some really uninteresting stories that I couldn't even get started.
Back in the 60s, SF posed some challenging questions, some of which are covered in this book, particularly relating to sexuality and a utopia.
The stories that stood out, were:-
"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
 "Faith of Our Fathers" by Philip K. Dick
"The Recognition" by J. G. Ballard
 "Judas" by John Brunner

These two were memorable for being controversial:-
"Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" by Carol Emshwiller
 "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" by Theodore Sturgeon

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