DANGEROUS VISIONS

   Original ANTHOLOGY ed Harlan ELLISON. DV (1967) was a massive and influential anthology of 33 stories and copious prefatory material; it became strongly identified with the NEW WAVE in the USA. Among its stories, "Aye, and Gomorrah . . ." by Samuel R. DELANY, "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz LEIBER and "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip Jose FARMER won major awards. DV was followed by Again, Dangerous Visions (anth 1972), which was larger still, although it created less stir. It contained two more major-award winners, "When It Changed" by Joanna RUSS and THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST (1972; 1976) by Ursula K. LE GUIN, among its 46 stories. ADV used only authors who had not appeared in DV. A third and still unpublished instalment, again with wholly new authors - The Last Dangerous Visions - has become legendary for its many postponements over 19 years (to 1992), although Ellison is on record (1979) as saying that over 100 stories were bought for it. One sternly adversarial account of its history is the widely discussed The Last Deadloss Visions (1987 chap; rev 1987) compiled/written and published by Christopher PRIEST.

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   See also: TABOOS.