Again, Dangerous Visions
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| Synopsis: | A sequel to Dangerous Visions — another collection of short works that were, at the time, too controversial to publish in any other medium. |
| Genre(s): | Science fiction |
| First published: | 1972 |
The sequel-anthology to Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking 1967 anthology Dangerous Visions. Due to the size of it, it has been released in two volumes (although originally in one).
Like DV, it also features introductions to each story by Harlan, who talks about the writer, and an afterward by the writer about the story.
The planned sequel to ADV would have been The Last Dangerous Visions, but...well, until the day of his death Harlan didn't like to talk about it.
Tropes used in Again, Dangerous Visions include:
The tropes found in each story (as well as in the introductions and afterwords) are listed under the story in question.
- "The Counterpoint of View" by John Heidenry
- Meta Fiction: An extremely peculiar example.
- Shout-Out: Despite being less than three pages in length, Heidenry manages to make a truly stunning number of references to Jorge Luis Borges.
- "Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne
- "The Word for World Is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "For Value Received" by Andrew J. Offutt
- "Mathoms From the Time Closet" -- "1: Robot's Story", "2: Against The Lafayette Escadrille" and "3: Loco Parentis" by Gene Wolfe
- "Time Travel For Pedestrians" by Ray Nelson
- "Christ, Old Student in a New School" (poem) by Ray Bradbury
- "King of the Hill" by Chad Oliver
- "The 10:00 Report Is Brought to You by..." by Edward Bryant
- "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm
- "Harry the Hare" by James B. Hemesath
- "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ (Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
- Lady Land
- One-Gender Race
- Truly Single Parent—subverted
- "The Big Space Fuck" by Kurt Vonnegut
- Crowning Moment of Funny
- Getting Crap Past the Censors: The story was expressly written so that Vonnegut could include the word 'fuck' in the title.
- Intentionally Awkward Title
- Kill'Em All: In the world of the story, Lake Erie has become so polluted that it is home to giant, mutated, man-eating lampreys that can climb out of the water and go after humans. At the end, a lamprey comes along and eats all three of the main characters.
- "Bounty" by T. L. Sherred
- "Still-Life" by K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N Malzberg)
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: An incredibly dark example.
- "Stoned Counsel" by H. H. Hollis
- Battle in The Centre of The Mind: A legal one, no less.
- Mushroom Samba
- "Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations"—1: "The Bisquit Position" and 2: "The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements" by Bernard Wolfe
- "With A Finger in My I" by David Gerrold
- "In the Barn" by Piers Anthony
- "Soundless Evening" by Lee Hoffman
- (the title is an ink blot) by Gahan Wilson
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Just to clarify: the title of the story is not "(the title is an ink blot)"--the title IS an ink blot. |
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- I'm a Humanitarian: The ink blot
- Lucky Charms Title
- Surreal Humour
- "The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward" by Joan Bernott
- "And the Sea Like Mirrors" by Gregory Benford
- "Bed Sheets Are White" by Evelyn Lief
- "Tissue": "At the Fitting Shop" and "53rd American Dream" by James Sallis
- "Elouise And The Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" by Josephine Saxton
- "Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home" by Ken McCullough
- "Epiphany For Aliens" by David Kerr
- "Eye of the Beholder" by Burt K. Filer
- "Moth Race" by Richard Hill
- "In Re Glover" by Leonard Tushnet
- "Zero Gee" by Ben Bova
- "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" by Dean R. Koontz
- "Getting Along" by James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence
- "Totenbuch" by A Parra (Y Figueredo)
- "Things Lost" by Thomas M Disch
- "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" by Richard A. Lupoff
- "Lamia Mutable" by M John Harrison
- "Last Train to Kankakee" by Robin Scott
- "Empire of the Sun" by Andrew Weiner
- "Ozymandias" by Terry Carr
- "The Milk of Paradise" by James Tiptree Jr