This copy is signed by Harlan Ellison .

It's been years since I've read this, and I'm still thinking about it. This really raised some potent and hard-hitting questions about gender roles and life in general. Really wish this had been a whole novel.

Still one the best original sf anthologies ever, with terrific stories by Ursula K. LeGuin and many others. My favorite is still Richard Lupoff's "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama." Ellison's long introductions are the best thing about it. In the introduction it is promised that THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS will appear six months after this volume; many people remain hopeful.

Sometime between the first Dangerous Visions anthology and the second, Harlan Ellison jumped the shark. Perhaps in those four years, he started to believe his own hype. It is true that the first anthology did seem to set a fire under a number of writers, both old and new, to experiment and try new things, and it happened because Ellison championed it. But in the preparation of the second volume, Ellison took on much more than a simple championing role—he became a dangerous vision of himself.But

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is to be successful. Because your next thing has to surpass your first success. Just ask the guy who came up with the idea of pet rocks.Harlan Ellison probably knows what I am talking about. Dangerous Visions was a raging success. It is still the definitive sci-fi anthology of the last half of the 20th century. It was a risk and a risk well taken. So of course there had to be a sequel.But in Again, Dangerous Visions the writers know the score. Be ground-...

I watched a TV documentary on Harlan Ellison recently, a larger-than-life writer who seems to put Hemingway and Hefner to shame. His science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions was often mentioned in the program. I could not get the book at the library by instead found "Again, Dangerous Visions" - the sequel ( I believe even a third anthology was compiled due to its popularity at the time). I read a dozen stories from the 46 presented in the sequel, and it gave me my dose of speculative, edgy fi...

For a good part of my senior year of high school (1973) I carried a copy around with my notebook, sneaking reads when I could. It did more to prepare me for the future I would soon be living in than all my boring classes. It would deeply disturb today's high schoolers, but it would do them a lot of good. Age-appropriate is for losers.

Man, most of these stories are extremely bad. Some of the standouts include the Le Guin and the Tiptree and the Hollis and perhaps the Vonnegut, but even then, man, I don't know. There is one fun bagatelle about the legal implications of cryogenics that reads like droll sci-fi Thackeray, and H.H. Hollis' story about LSD lawyering was also spry, but these do not justify the many many bad stories you will read. Really, the only reason to read this collection is if you have any kind of fascination

Man, this was extremely disappointing. Now, I know it's been a lot of years, but I have a hard time believing most of these stories were particularly dangerous or compelling even at the time. There are a few standouts, but most of the stories are just vague, boring, or (worst) standard. And Harlan Ellison drives me absolutely batty with his introductions--there are a lot of sci-fi writers I would love to hear talk about things, but I've never read someone so full of grandiosity and empty promise...

Wow. I set myself up to read 100 books this year and then give myself this doorstopper in December. Smart, self.Some day I'll find a copy of "Dangerous Visions" which is what I was recommended to read and why I picked up its sequel. The introductions frequently reference a third volume called "Last Dangerous Visions" but it doesn't appear to have been made, or if made, didn't have that title. The premise of the collection is "Stories too taboo for traditional markets." And I suppose taboos were

I have to say that this massive anthology of science fiction novellas and short stories completely blew me away in the early 1970's. I read this one before the original "Dangerous Visions." Editor/author Harlan Ellison encouraged contributing writers to cut loose with their most daring and provocative ideas. In so doing, he not only pushed the boundaries of what was being published in those days, he expanded his readers' ideas of what was possible in the genre. This book helped to kick off what

Perhaps overall weaker than the predecessor, but probably because of the sheer amount of material. And also, because Ellison's introductions are less inspired (he doesn't have the same familiarity with these writers as the last group -- a ton of them he hadn't even met yet.) As with DV, most stories are middling to bad, a few particularly bad, and a small handful are absolutely worth reading.The stories I found rewarding were:-The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm, is hardly a great story, but it is an ex...

I won't write on everything in the collection. I wrote about "The Word for World is Forest" by Le Guin on the novella's own page, since it was so long and fantastic on its own. On an interesting side note, these stories are certainly of an era, with a good number of them concerned greatly by overpopulation and many also being environmentally focused. It makes sense, given the publication date and years during which the stories were written. Plenty also seem to comment on Vietnam, cryogenics, and...

This book has stories from several of my favorite authors- so it pains me to say that it was absolutely awful.Harlan Ellison's introductions are snarky, pompous, and condescending; and he wrote several page intros for each one. I was thinking about reading some of his own books after this, but now I'm not so sure.Everything about this sounds like it was written on panes of acid; and not in a good or fascinating way. The stories in here were previously unpublished, and it's clear why. All good au...

Note: Goodreads has merged my review of "When it Changed" by Joanna Russ with the larger anthology in which it once appeared.Russ says it best in her afterword: stories about societies of women are often either power-mad, sexually insatiable male fantasies or boring, unrealistic utopias. Here Russ is mindful of the fact that women are people, and people build homes and families, make art, make love, get drunk and fight on Saturday night, piss off their neighbors, shelve their dreams to pay the b...

The "Use Your Illusion" (or "The Fragile", you choose) of SF anthologies: a few timeless pieces of work surrounded by hectares of mediocrity and some outright garbage. There's no reason this book needed to be even half its length save for Ellison's metastatic ego. An extra star awarded for Le Guin's "The Word For World Is Forest", but you can get that one elsewhere.

Mankind is a jokebut animals should be savedshoot them into spaaaace!

As with the first volume, there are some very good stories, some average ones, and a whole lot that made me wonder what Ellison had in his pipe when he was assembling this anthology.I'll just talk about some of the ones I liked.A pair of stories by Bernard Wolfe, under the collective title "Monitored Dreams and Strategic Cremations." The first of these, "The Bisquit Position," is probably the most dangerous story in the volume, even today. Just try criticizing the military and see what happens.

This is quite as good as Harlan Ellison's 1969 anthology, Dangerous Visions.

Originally read in '70s when it first came out. It still stands up well after 40 years."An Assault of New Dreamers" (introduction) by Harlan Ellison"The Counterpoint of View" by John Heidenry - Very good - a bit Jorge Luis Borges crossed with something out of the Vandermeer's "Thackery T. Lambshead" concoctions."Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne - dated and poor"The Word for World Is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin - a bit dated with all the Vietnam references but still a good read"For Value Received...