The book features two introductions by Isaac Asimov, a book intro by Ellison, and a long, chatty introduction by Ellison to each story, often concerning his relationship with the author. He also wanted to define what was becoming known as the "New Wave" in SF in contrast to what Judith Merrill was doing in her anthologies, and Michael Moorcock was doing at New Worlds magazine. Harlan Ellison, already a well-known short fiction and TV writer (but before he had won any of his many awards), conceived of the project in response to suggestions from Norman Spinrad and Robert Silverberg, his own failed effort to do such an anthology for Regency Books when he was editor there, and with a desire to gather stories too controversial or dangerous for the SF magazines of the era. Dangerous Visions is possibly the single most famous anthology in the history of science fiction, which is all the more remarkable because it was an anthology of original, never before published stories.
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