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** ''The Last Dangerous Visions'': The third volume was planned, but they were scrapped for awhile and didn't recover before Creator/HarlanEllison's [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist wrote [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay]] about the problems with creating the last anthology.

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** ''The Last Dangerous Visions'': The third volume was planned, but they were scrapped for awhile and didn't recover before Creator/HarlanEllison's [[AuthorExistenceFailure [[DiedDuringProduction death]]. Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist wrote [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay]] about the problems with creating the last anthology.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is not likely to ever come out. Averted as of November 14, 2020 when Harlan Ellison's estate's literary executor Creator/JMichaelStraczynski announced the book would be published in 2021.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is not likely to ever come out.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is not likely to ever come out. Averted as of November 14, 2020 when Harlan Ellison's estate's literary executor Creator/JMichaelStraczynski announced the book would be published in 2021.

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarlanEllison. Creator/IsaacAsimov (introductions). Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer. Creator/PhilipKDick. Creator/RobertSilverberg. Creator/RobertBloch. Creator/FritzLeiber. Creator/LarryNiven. Creator/PoulAnderson. Creator/DamonKnight. Creator/JohnBrunner....
** And ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions'' has Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin, Creator/KurtVonnegut, Creator/RayBradbury (with a poem!), Creator/PiersAnthony, Creator/GahanWilson, Creator/BenBova...
*** AAAAND the lineup for ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' included Creator/OrsonScottCard, Creator/CordwainerSmith, Creator/FrankHerbert, Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/GordonRDickson, Creator/StephenKing, Creator/JoeHaldeman...
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** ''The Last Dangerous Visions''. See: {{Vaporware}} and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay.]]

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarlanEllison. Creator/HarlanEllison and Creator/IsaacAsimov (introductions). write introductions.
** ''Dangerous Visions'' has stories from
Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer. Creator/PhilipKDick. Creator/RobertSilverberg. Creator/RobertBloch. Creator/FritzLeiber. Creator/LarryNiven. Creator/PoulAnderson. Creator/DamonKnight. Creator/JohnBrunner....
** And ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions'' has stories from Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin, Creator/KurtVonnegut, Creator/RayBradbury (with a poem!), Creator/PiersAnthony, Creator/GahanWilson, Creator/BenBova...
*** AAAAND the lineup for ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have]] included Creator/OrsonScottCard, Creator/CordwainerSmith, Creator/FrankHerbert, Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/GordonRDickson, Creator/StephenKing, Creator/JoeHaldeman...
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AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning ''The Last Dangerous Visions''. See: {{Vaporware}} and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay.]]Visions'' is not likely to ever come out.
* ReferencedBy: In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', the cigarettes Spider smokes are "Carcinoma Angels".
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning the Last Dangerous Visions is not likely to ever come out.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning the ** ''The Last Dangerous Visions is not likely to ever come out.Visions'': The third volume was planned, but they were scrapped for awhile and didn't recover before Creator/HarlanEllison's [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist wrote [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay]] about the problems with creating the last anthology.

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--> "[[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaac]]...was too [[OutOfCharacterMoment uncharacteristically]] and idiotically humble to write a ''story'' for the book, on the wholly bogus grounds that he was a geezer, couldn't write "[[NewWaveScienceFiction the new thing]]," and didn't want to embarrass himself."

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--> "[[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaac]]...was too [[OutOfCharacterMoment uncharacteristically]] and idiotically humble to write a ''story'' for the book, on the wholly bogus grounds that he was a geezer, couldn't write "[[NewWaveScienceFiction the new thing]]," and didn't want to embarrass himself.""
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Harlan Ellison passed away on 6/28/2018. Meaning the Last Dangerous Visions is not likely to ever come out.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarlanEllison. Creator/IsaacAsimov (introductions). Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer. Creator/PhilipKDick. Creator/RobertSilverberg. Creator/RobertBloch. Creator/FritzLeiber. Creator/LarryNiven. Creator/PoulAnderson. Creator/DamonKnight. Creator/JohnBrunner....
** And ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions'' has Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin, Creator/KurtVonnegut, Creator/RayBradbury (with a poem!), Creator/PiersAnthony, Creator/GahanWilson, Creator/BenBova...
*** AAAAND the lineup for ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' included Creator/OrsonScottCard, Creator/CordwainerSmith, Creator/FrankHerbert, Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/GordonRDickson, Creator/StephenKing, Creator/JoeHaldeman...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen
** ''The Last Dangerous Visions''. See: {{Vaporware}} and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest this essay.]]
** Ellison, from "Introduction: Year 2002":
--> "[[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaac]]...was too [[OutOfCharacterMoment uncharacteristically]] and idiotically humble to write a ''story'' for the book, on the wholly bogus grounds that he was a geezer, couldn't write "[[NewWaveScienceFiction the new thing]]," and didn't want to embarrass himself."

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