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:

Evensong by Lester del Rey Flies by Robert Silverberg The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer 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 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 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

Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.