Series
Dangerous Visions
Harlan Ellison, John Christopher, Langdon Jones, Richard Wilson & William E. Cochrane · 4 novellas · 3 anthologies · 1967–2024
Dangerous Visions (1967), Again, Dangerous Visions (1972), and the posthumously finished The Last Dangerous Visions (2024) are Harlan Ellison's landmark science fiction anthologies of original, previously unpublished stories, each conceived to push past the genre's conventional boundaries of its time. Ellison edited and introduced all three, though his death in 2018 left the final volume to be completed and published by others years later. The three books form a loosely connected set of era-defining anthologies spanning nearly six decades rather than a continuous story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Dangerous Visions at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
4 novellas · 3 anthologies
5 authors · completed series
reads like:science fictiongender and societyother star systemsfar futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Dangerous Visionsdarkest · calmest
- Cargo Runbrightest · most intense