History Literature / DangerousVisions

** DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Joe tackling [[TheDevil the Big Gambler]].
%%** TheGamblingAddict: Joe Slattermill.

** BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The EldritchAbomination in question turns out to be God, and the minor wound the hero received in the encounter ends up being fatal. However, it's seen as a vaguely optimistic outcome, as it's hinted that rebellion is impossible, so his minor act of defiance (in punching Cthulu in the face) is a victory for the human spirit. After he is "branded" as a result with a deadly sore, which slowly spreads over his body, he chooses to ignore it and spend his last night alive making love with his girlfriend as an act of humanity, denying Cthulhu a moral victory.
** ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: The story is is a particularly bizarre and unsettling riff on%%Incomplete.

** GodIsEvil:

* "Evensong" by Creator/LesterDelRey.

* "Flies" by Creator/RobertSilverberg.

* "Literature/TheDayAfterTheDayTheMartiansCame" by Creator/FrederikPohl

* "Literature/RidersOfThePurpleWage" by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer (UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best novella)

* "The Malley System" by Miriam Allen deFord

* "A Toy for Juliette" by Creator/RobertBloch

* "Literature/TheProwlerInTheCityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld" by Creator/HarlanEllison

* "The Night That All Time Broke Out" by Creator/BrianWAldiss

* "The Man Who Went to the Moon -- Twice" by HowardRodman

* "Literature/FaithOfOurFathers" by Creator/PhilipKDick

* "The Jigsaw Man" by Creator/LarryNiven

* "Literature/GonnaRollTheBones" by Creator/FritzLeiber (got both the UsefulNotes/HugoAward and UsefulNotes/NebulaAward for Best Novelette)

* "Lord Randy, My Son" by Creator/JoeLHensley

* "Eutopia" by Creator/PoulAnderson

* "Literature/IncidentInModeran" by Creator/DavidRBunch

* "Literature/TheEscaping" by Creator/DavidRBunch

* "The Doll-House" by Creator/JamesCross

* "Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" by Creator/CarolEmshwiller

* "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?" by Creator/DamonKnight

* "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon

* "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?" by Creator/LarryEisenberg

* "Ersatz" by Creator/HenrySlesar

* "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" by Creator/SonyaDorman

* "The Happy Breed" by Creator/JohnSladek

* "Encounter with a Hick" by Creator/JonathanBrand

* "From the Government Printing Office" by Creator/KrisNeville

* "Land of the Great Horses" by Creator/RALafferty

* "The Recognition" by Creator/JGBallard

* "Judas" by Creator/JohnBrunner

* "Test to Destruction" by Creator/KeithLaumer

* "Literature/CarcinomaAngels" by Creator/NormanSpinrad

* "Auto-da-Fé" by Creator/RogerZelazny

* "Aye, and Gomorrah..." by Creator/SamuelRDelany (UsefulNotes/NebulaAward for best short story, 1967)

** DisproportionateRetribution:[[spoiler: death penalty for driving on red light]]

** TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:The plot of the story .

** NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Don't tell A-46 that there's No Such Thing As Robot Jesus

** [[Spoiler:{{Antichrist}}]]: Implied.

** [[Spoiler:Antichrist]]: implied.
** CameBackWrong: one boy killed a goldfish. Amount of goldfishes in the pond didn't change, but one of them has different color and shape.
** CreepyChild: his own father finds Randall unnerving.

** KidsAreCruel: they bully Randall, including hurting his animals - squirrel and goldfishes.

%%** KickTheSonOfABitch: The ending.

** BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Novocain; morphine; curare; ''vlut'', a rare Central Asian poison which induced temporary blindness; [[NoodleImplements olfactorcain, a top-secret smell-deadener used by skunk farmers]]; tympanoline, a drug which temporarily deadened the auditory nerves (used primarily by filibustering senators); a large dose of Benzedrinel lysergic acid; psilocybin; mescaline; peyote extract; [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs seven other highly experimental and most illegal hallucinogens;]] EyeOfNewt and [[UnfortunateIngredients toe of dog]]."

%%** TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:

%%** FanDisservice: The ending.

%%** ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: The story is is a particularly bizarre and unsettling riff on%%Incomplete.
%%** DirtyCommunists: Dick speculated the Cold War might turn out with%%Incomplete.
%%** DownerEnding:
%%** AFormYouAreComfortableWith: {{Subverted|Trope}}

%%** GodIsEvil:

%%** CreepyChild:
%%** EnfantTerrible:

%%** ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: This ''is'' the TwistEnding of the story.%%ZCE

** AmbitiousGender: it's unclear whenever cannibal man or woman.

%%** AndIMustScream:
%%** FateWorseThanDeath:

** LongTitle: "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?"

%%** HoistByHisOwnPetard:

** ForTheEvulz: "Flies" deals with a man [[DeityOfHumanOrigin who is given God-like powers]], and uses them to torture people, for his own amusement.
%%** AGodAmI: Cassiday.

--> Harlan's story is a sequel to "A Toy for Juliette". So [[HilarityEnsues Bloch writes the profile of Harlan preceding the story...]]

-->Harlan's introduction to Joe L. Hensley is one giant rollicking ride of [[HilarityEnsues undistilled hilarity]].

** AnachronismStew: Harlan, on the idea for the story, described how "the image of a creature of Whitechapel fog and filth, the dark figure of Leather Apron, skulking through a sterile and automated city of the future, was an anachronism that fascinated me."

--->"[Jonathan Brand] was lying there propped on his elbows, a blade of grass in his mouth, watching half a dozen of the older, more sophisticated giants of the science fiction field dousing each other with beer from quart bottles on the lawn of Damon Knight's home.
"Kindness forbids my explaining why Jim Blish, Ted Thomas, Damon and Gordy Dickson were cavorting in such an unseemly manner..."\\

** AwesomeMcCoolname: All characters have some kind of exotic and exciting name.
*** Chibiabos Elgreco Winnegan.
*** Falco Accipter.
*** Omar [[Theatre/{{Bacchae}} Bacchylides]] Runic.
*** Benedictine Serinus Melba.
*** Rousseau [[NobleSavage Red Hawk]].
*** [[PinkertonDetective Pinkerton]] [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Legrand]].
*** [[Creator/HugoGernsback Huga]] [[Creator/HGWells Wells]]-[[Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs Erb]] [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Hein]][[Creator/TheodoreSturgeon stur]][[Creator/RayBradbury bury]] ([[LampshadeHanging even the other characters remark on]] [[OverlyLongName how ridiculously long his name is]]).

** AwesomeMcCoolname: Joe Slattermill.

%%** KnifeNut: Juliette.

%%** KnifeNut: Jack.

* "Literature/RidersOfThePurpleWage" by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer''' (UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best novella)

** {{Asexuality}}: The story plays this trope as an in-universe {{fetish}}, paradoxically enough.