Dangerous Visions - Contents

Contents

Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon accompany each short story.

  • Foreword 1 - The Second Revolution by Isaac Asimov
  • Foreword 2 - Harlan and I by Isaac Asimov
  • Thirty-Two Soothsayers (introduction) by Harlan Ellison
  • Evensong by Lester del Rey. This is described by its author as an allegory. It details the capture of a being, identified at the end of the story as God, by Man, which has usurped God's power.
  • Flies by Robert Silverberg. It was inspired by a quote from King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."
  • The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
  • Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (Hugo Award for best novella)
  • The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord
  • 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 (Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novelette)
  • Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Hensley
  • Eutopia by Poul Anderson
  • Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R. Bunch
  • The Doll-House by James Cross (pseudonym)
  • Sex and/or 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-Fé by Roger Zelazny
  • Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany (Nebula Award for best short story, 1967)

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