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 The essay was once available online but Priest has since requested the essay be withdrawn from the internet.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)

• The Counterpoint Of View by John Heidenry
• Ching Witch! by Ross Rocklynne
• The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin
• For Value Received by andrew j offutt
• Robot's Story, Against The Lafayette Escadrille and Loco Parentis by Gene Wolfe
• Time Travel For Pedestrians by Ray Nelson
• Christ, Old Student In A New School (poem) by Ray Bradbury
• King Of The Hill by Chad Oliver
• The 10:00 Report Is Brought To You By... by Edward Bryant
• The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm
• Harry The Hare by James B. Hemesath
• When It Changed by Joanna Russ
• The Big Space Fuck by Kurt Vonnegut
• Bounty by T L Sherred
• Still-Life by K M O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)
• Stoned Counsel by H. H. Hollis
• The Bisquit Position and The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements by Bernard Wolfe
• With A Finger In My I by David Gerrold
• In The Barn by Piers Anthony
• Soundless Evening by Lee Hoffman
• (the title is an ink blot) by Gahan Wilson
• The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward by Joan Bernott
• And The Sea Like Mirrors by Gregory Benford
• Bed Sheets Are White by Evelyn Lief
• 53rd American Dream and At The Fitting Shop by James Sallis
• Elouise And The Doctors Of The Planet Pergamon by Josephine Saxton
• Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home by Ken McCullough
• Epiphany For Aliens by David Kerr
• Eye Of The Beholder by Burt K. Filer
• Moth Race by Richard Hill
• In Re Glover by Leonard Tushnet
• Zero Gee by Ben Bova
• A Mouse In The Walls Of The Global Village by Dean R. Koontz
• Getting Along by James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence
• Totenbuch by A Parra (Y Figueredo)
• Things Lost by Thomas M. Disch
• With The Bentfin Boomer Boys On Little Old New Alabama by Richard A. Lupoff
• Lamia Mutable by M John Harrison
• Last Train To Kankakee by Robin Scott
• Empire Of The Sun by Andrew Weiner
• Ozymandias by Terry Carr
• The Milk Of Paradise by James Tiptree, Jr.

External links

• Series listing at ISFDB