Trivia / Dangerous Visions

• All-Star Cast: Harlan Ellison and Isaac Asimov write introductions.
  • Dangerous Visions has stories from Philip José Farmer. Philip K. Dick. Robert Silverberg. Robert Bloch. Fritz Leiber. Larry Niven. Poul Anderson. Damon Knight. John Brunner....
  • Again, Dangerous Visions has stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury (with a poem!), Piers Anthony, Gahan Wilson, Ben Bova...
    • The Last Dangerous Visions would have included Orson Scott Card, Cordwainer Smith, Frank Herbert, Michael Moorcock, Gordon R. Dickson, Stephen King, Joe Haldeman...
• Referenced by...: In Transmetropolitan, the cigarettes Spider smokes are "Carcinoma Angels".
• What Could Have Been:
  • Ellison, from "Introduction: Year 2002":
  "Isaac...was too uncharacteristically and idiotically humble to write a story for the book, on the wholly bogus grounds that he was a geezer, couldn't write "the new thing," and didn't want to embarrass himself."
  • The Last Dangerous Visions: The third volume was planned, but they were scrapped for awhile and didn't recover before Harlan Ellison's death. Christopher Priest (novelist) wrote this essay about the problems with creating the last anthology.

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