Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. 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: 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 Jos??? Farmer | The Malley System ...
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Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. 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: 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 Jos??? 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. 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-F??? by Roger Zelazny | Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.
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First UK paperback edition, first printing
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1974
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English
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Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by editor Harlan Ellison on the title page (signature only). 1st UK trade paperback edition, no numberline (first printing). Very mild wear to the wraps. 232 p. Audience: General/trade. Edited by the late Hugo Award-, Writers Guild Award-, Nebula Award-, Bram Stoker Award-, Edgar Award-, World Fantasy Award-, Georges Méliès Fantasy Film Award-, Gallun Award for Lifetime Achievement-, J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award-, International PEN Silver Pen-, Defender of Liberty Award-, Words, Wit, Wisdom Award-, Distinguished Skeptic Award-, Grammy Award-, Golden Scroll-, Soft Monkey-, Bradbury Award-, British Fantasy Award-, British Science Fiction Award-, Deathrealm Award-, International Horror Guild Living Legend Award-, Locus Poll Award-, Jupiter Award-, and Prometheus Award-winning author of the 'A Boy and His Dog' cycle and 'The City on the Edge of Forever'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Ellison went to a variety of writers and asked them to "push the envelope" and push it they did. The stories still stand as strong today as when they were first published.
A monument of a book.