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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: Contents xi • Foreword: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition) • (2002) • essay by Michael Moorcock xiii • Introduction: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition • (2002) • essay by Harlan Ellison xxiii • Foreword 1-The Second Revolution • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov xxxiii • Introduction: Thirty-Two Soothsayers • (1967) • essay by Harlan Ellison (variant of Thirty-Two Soothsayers) xxxix • Foreword 2-Harlan and I • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov 1 • Evensong • (1967) • shortstory by Lester del Rey 9 • Flies • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 21 • The Day After the Day the Martians Came • (1967) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl (variant of The Day the Martians Came) 30 • Riders of the Purple Wage • (1967) • novella by Philip José Farmer 105 • The Malley System • (1967) • shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord 115 • A Toy for Juliette • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Bloch 128 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison 154 • The Night That All Time Broke Out • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss 169 • The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice • (1967) • shortstory by Howard Rodman 181 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick 216 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Niven 231 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber 256 • Lord Randy, My Son • (1967) • shortstory by Joe L. Hensley 272 • Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson 295 • Incident in Moderan • [Moderan] • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 299 • The Escaping • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch 305 • The Doll-House • (1967) • shortstory by James Cross 326 • Sex and/or Mr. Morrison • (1967) • shortstory by Carol Emshwiller 338 • Shall the Dust Praise Thee? • (1967) • shortstory by Damon Knight 344 • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? • (1967) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon 390 • What Happened to Auguste Clarot? • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Eisenberg 396 • Ersatz • (1967) • shortstory by Henry Slesar 404 • Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird • (1967) • shortstory by Sonya Dorman 412 • The Happy Breed • (1967) • shortstory by John Sladek [as by John T. Sladek ] 433 • Encounter with a Hick • (1967) • shortstory by Jonathan Brand 439 • From the Government Printing Office • (1967) • shortstory by Kris Neville 447 • Land of the Great Horses • (1967) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty 458 • The Recognition • (1967) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard 472 • Judas • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner 483 • Test to Destruction • (1967) • novelette by Keith Laumer 510 • Carcinoma Angels • (1967) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad 523 • Auto-da-Fé • (1967) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny 532 • Aye, and Gomorrah . . . • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.