Again, Dangerous Visions (Dangerous Visions, volume 2) edited by Harlan Ellison

[james_davis_nicoll]

Ellison's second (and longer) foray into unconventional SF.

Again, Dangerous Visions (Dangerous Visions, volume 2) edited by Harlan Ellison

Comments

[petrea_mitchell]

I believe this was incorporated into a later novel. I’d forgotten that Benford was in ADV.

Oh yes, I remember that bit from one of the novels in the Galactic Center Saga. Which I somehow read all of despite increasing annoyance at the repeating pattern of smart man vs. stupid woman who doesn't survive to see the credits.

[patrick_morris_miller]

The second one to be specific, where Hero McHeroface [1] goes gallivanting between nearby stars and we get weird intermissions of things going to hell on Earth but the author does a crap job of saying how or why.

[1] Don't take the snark too seriously. If I recall, there is not one damn thing heroic about him.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Starship Troopers narrated by Boomhauer

I would listen to that.

[ethelmay]

I know I read this, but I remember only the Le Guin, the Russ, and the Anthony. Everything else rings no bells.

[chrysostom]

You're certainly not going to forget the Anthony, even if you'd like to.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Did you mean to put that 'the' there?

[(Anonymous)]

Insert "sensible chuckle" gif here

What I find ...interesting isn't the word; "remarkable" in the literal sense, perhaps? is that while "... wrapped in a story designed to appeal to a very specific fetish" is a description that can be applied to sections (or entireties) of quite a few authors' body of work, Anthony is the first to come to mind where it applies so widely and yet so diversely; so many books, so many very specific fetishes!

[oh6]

I recognize quite a few of these stories, at a rough count about 30 of them. Some other titles I recognize, but I have no idea what the story was about.

The prose in Lupoff's story is challenging to describe, but as a reading experience it wasn't much trouble, at least not for me.

Several of the stories didn't really seem like anything magazines would object to, but at the time this was published I was occupying myself reading every book about dinosaurs in the school library, so perhaps I'm mistaken.

[ba_munronoe]

Sounds like it might be worth a reread, (perhaps you could give a contents list for your recommended Good Bits Only edition?) but I might not have my copy: shed quite a few books in my last two moves.

I wonder what it would have done for Ellison's reputation if he'd actually succeeded in putting out LDV before, say, the Reagan era?

[chrysostom]

Not much, would be my guess. Chris Priest would have been less mad at him, I guess.