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3	The sequel-anthology to Creator/HarlanEllison's groundbreaking 1967 NewWaveScienceFiction anthology ''Literature/DangerousVisions''. Due to the size of it, it has been released in two volumes (although originally in one).
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5	Like ''Dangerous Visions'', it also features introductions to each story by Harlan, who talks about the writer, and an afterward by the writer about the story.
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7	The [[DevelopmentHell planned sequel]] to ''ADV'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been]] ''Literature/TheLastDangerousVisions'', but, well... [[BerserkButton Harlan didn't like to talk about it]] (though Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist is [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest happy to]]).
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10	!!Tropes found in the Stories in ''Again, Dangerous Visions'':
11	The tropes found in each story (as well as in the introductions and afterwords) are listed under the story in question.
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14	* '''"The Counterpoint of View" by John Heidenry'''
15	%%** MetaFiction: An extremely peculiar example.
16	%%** ShoutOut: Despite being less than three pages in length, Heidenry manages to make a truly stunning number of references to Creator/JorgeLuisBorges.
17	* '''"Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne'''
18	** WhileRomeBurns - The story begins at a [[EarthShatteringKaboom goodbye party for Earth]].
19	** MyInstinctsAreShowing - the [[LittleBitBeastly cat boy]] protagonist has issues.
20	%%** YouSexyBeast - but he's fine with that
21	* '''"The Word for World Is Forest" by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin'''
22	%%** SingleBiomePlanet
23	%%** EvilColonialist
24	* '''"For Value Received" by Andrew J. Offutt'''
25	%%** PeaceAndLoveIncorporated- The medical care is free. Leaving is not.
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27	* '''"Mathoms From the Time Closet" -- "1: Robot's Story", "2: Against The Lafayette Escadrille" and "3: Loco Parentis" by Creator/GeneWolfe'''
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29	* '''"Time Travel For Pedestrians" by Ray Nelson'''
30	** HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The MentalTimeTravel is conducted by ingesting morning glory seeds.
31	** MentalTimeTravel: The first-person narrator sends his mind back in stages all the way to Christ's time.
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33	* '''"Christ, Old Student in a New School" (poem) by Creator/RayBradbury'''
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35	* '''"King of the Hill" by Chad Oliver'''
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37	* '''"The 10:00 Report Is Brought to You by..." by Edward Bryant'''
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39	* '''"The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm'''
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41	* '''"Harry the Hare" by James B. Hemesath'''
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43	* '''"When It Changed" by Creator/JoannaRuss''' (UsefulNotes/NebulaAward for Best Short Story)
44	%%** LadyLand
45	%%** OneGenderRace
46	%%** TrulySingleParent -- subverted
47	* '''"The Big Space Fuck" by Creator/KurtVonnegut'''
48	** ClusterFBomb: In the story, swearing became completely acceptable. Even the President of the United States uses profanity in his speeches. In fact, quite a bit of the story ''consists'' of profanity.
49	** FreudianExcuse: The government allows people to sue their parents for ruining their lives with their parenting. This is done to discourage reproduction, since the world is dangerously overpopulated.
50	** IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: The story was expressly written so that Vonnegut could include the word 'fuck' in the title. It's notable that this is the first instance of the word being used ''as'' part of the title of a non-pornographic printed story.
51	** PollutedWasteland: The whole planet. The eponymous action is undertaken because Earth is dying from pollution.
52	%%** RefugeInAudacity: The Short Story
53	* '''"Bounty" by T. L. Sherred'''
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55	* '''"Still-Life" by K. M. O'Donnell (Creator/BarryNMalzberg)'''
56	%%** BreakingTheFourthWall: An incredibly dark example.
57	* '''"Stoned Counsel" by H. H. Hollis'''
58	%%** BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: A ''legal'' one, no less.
59	%%** MushroomSamba
60	* '''"Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations" -- 1: "The Bisquit Position" and 2: "The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements" by Bernard Wolfe'''
61	%%** BodyHorror
62	%%** EruditeStoner: Quentin Seckley in "The Girl With...", although he's not as erudite as he fancies himself.
63	%%** TalkingInYourDreams
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65	* '''"With A Finger in My I" by Creator/DavidGerrold'''
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67	* '''"In the Barn" by Creator/PiersAnthony'''
68	%%** BodyHorror
69	%%** PeopleFarms- literally.
70	* '''"Soundless Evening" by Lee Hoffman'''
71	* '''(the title is an ink blot) by Creator/GahanWilson'''
72	--> ''Just to clarify: the title of the story is not "(the title is an ink blot)"--[[ShapedLikeItself the title]]'' [[ShapedLikeItself IS]] ''[[ShapedLikeItself an ink blot]].''
73	%%** ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:The ink blot]]
74	%%** LuckyCharmsTitle
75	%%** SurrealHumor
76	%%** EldritchAbomination
77	* '''"The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward" by Joan Bernott'''
78	%%** WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
79	%%** StupidSexyFriend
80	%%** DestructiveRomance
81	%%** WifeHusbandry -a particularly bizarre example
82	* '''"And the Sea Like Mirrors" by Creator/GregoryBenford'''
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84	* '''"Bed Sheets Are White" by Evelyn Lief'''
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86	* '''"Tissue": "At the Fitting Shop" and "53rd American Dream" by James Sallis'''
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88	* '''"Elouise And The Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" by Josephine Saxton'''
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90	* '''"Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home" by [=Ken McCullough=]'''
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92	* '''"Epiphany For Aliens" by David Kerr'''
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94	* '''"Eye of the Beholder" by Burt K. Filer'''
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96	* '''"Moth Race" by Richard Hill'''
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98	* '''"In Re Glover" by Leonard Tushnet'''
99	** SpaceJews
100	* '''"Zero Gee" by Creator/BenBova'''
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102	* '''"A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" by [[Creator/DeanKoontz Dean R. Koontz]]'''
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104	* '''"Getting Along" by Creator/JamesBlish and Judith Ann Lawrence'''
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106	* '''"Totenbuch" by A Parra (Y Figueredo)'''
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108	* '''"Things Lost" by Creator/ThomasMDisch'''
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110	* '''"With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" by Richard A. Lupoff'''
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112	* '''"Lamia Mutable" by Creator/MJohnHarrison'''
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114	* '''"Last Train to Kankakee" by Robin Scott'''
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116	* '''"Empire of the Sun" by Andrew Weiner'''
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118	* '''"Ozymandias" by Terry Carr'''
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120	* '''"The Milk of Paradise" by Creator/JamesTiptreeJr'''

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