Dangerous Visions
One of the most influential anthologies of all time returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published Anthologies seldom make history, but Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories is a grand exception. Along with Moorcock's New Worlds, it defined the New Wave...
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One of the most influential anthologies of all time returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published Anthologies seldom make history, but Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories is a grand exception. Along with Moorcock's New Worlds, it defined the New Wave movement. Dangerous Visions set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards—not surprsing with a contributors list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575108028 (0575108029)
ASIN: 575108029
Publish date: February 9th 2012
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 643
Edition language: English
I bought this collection of 33 science fiction stories because it was recommended in A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction on its "5 Parsec Shelf" of the best books in the genre. Here's what it said about the book: Anthologies, no matter how excellent, have seldom had enough impact to be "classics." B...
Do I need to say it? Dangerous Visions is and remains the greatest original science fiction anthology ever. It was amazing then and it still does not lose any of its impact today. Lots of great stories here but the main impact for me was the introduction to Philip K Dick through the story, "Faith of...
This daring, ground-breaking, iconoclastic anthology, edited by the great Harlan Ellison, came out in 1967. He encouraged the contributors to push the boundaries, expand the envelope, think the unthinkable and mention sex, religion, politics, sex, sex, and things like that. You know, the kind of stu...
54 years ago
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