Anthologies seldom make history but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards
- not surprising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF Evensong by Lester del Rey Flies by Robert Silverberg The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl Riders of the violet Wage by Philip Jose Farmer The Malley System by Miriam Allen de Ford A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W Aldiss The Man Who Went to the Moon
- Twice by Howard Rodman Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K Dick The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber Lord Randy My Son by Joe L Hensley Eutopia by Poul Anderson Incident in Moderan & The Escaping by David R Bunch The Doll-House by James Cross Sex andor Mr Morrison by Carol Emshwiller Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg Ersatz by Henry Slesar Go Go Go Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman The Happy Breed by John Sladek Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville Land of the Great Horses by R A Lafferty The Recognition by J G Ballard Judas by John Brunner Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad Auto-da-Fe by Roger Zelazny Aye & Gomorrah by Samuel R Delany Unavailable for 15 years this huge anthology now returns to print as relevant now as when it was first published