![]() ![]() ![]() He's an irritating, self-aggrandising, priggish presence.Īs such, it's difficult to really recommend the collection as a whole - some of the quality in hindsight varies enormously - but as a historic curio and a landmark of the genre, I'm glad I read it.ĭangerous Visions was originally published in 1967 and remains perhaps the most famous anthology in the history of science fiction. 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. ![]()
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