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In. many ways, he succeeded. Different ways of telling stories were introduced, writers who might otherwise have escaped the attention. SF reader gained a reputation and an audience.
But what was the long- term influence of Dangerous Visions? Is. science fiction different now than it would have been without Ellison's ambitious anthology?
The publication. of a 3. Anniversary Edition brings with it not only the chance to remember a milestone of the field, but also to take a look. Dangerous Visions was first published. To a thirteen- year old seventh grader who had, over the previous year, read Isaac Asimov's. Foundation Trilogy, Robert A.
Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow, and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. Dangerous Visions had exactly the effect its editor was hoping for. Stories like Philip Jose Farmer's "Riders of the Purple Wage". Theodore Sturgeon's "If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" were filled with images of sex and violence. SF of the 4. 0s and 5.
The language was also different. The writing was more evocative, especially in. Surrealism and avant- garde literary stylings had made their mark. In some ways, it is easy to look back and see Dangerous Visions as a divisive force in science fiction.
It was at this time. SF/soft SF dichotomy begins to appear. It's also the Vietnam War era, and the young New Wave writers tended to be.
The older writers, generally more conservative, and supportive of the U. S. presence in. Vietnam, found themselves being criticized both for their style and for their politics. This is a generalisation, of course, but it's these kind of generalizations that we first remember when considering past events, and.
Hard SF remained the most conservative part of the field, literary. Hard SF maintained a fascination with technology, and with stories which were in essence more about the speculations they. It's amusing, then, to note immediately upon re- encountering Dangerous Visions that some of the best stories in the volume were written. New- Wavers, but by such mainstream SF stalwarts as Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, and Larry Niven. The suspicion starts. Dangerous Visions has earned such a high reputation is not for its stylistic experimentation, but simply. That these writers were consciously seeking new ways of.
And since Dangerous Visions was successful and influential, the literary experimentation, sexual imagery, and graphic violence. For that reason. not quite everything holds up to renewed scrutiny. The Jack the Ripper stories read less like psychological horror than exercises in. Sturgeon's "If All Men Were Brothers," which relied on shocking sex scenes to make their point, now. The good ones, though, are still very good. Chief among these is Philip K.
Dick's "Faith Of Our Fathers," one of the few times Dick. R. A. Lafferty's "Land Of The Great. Horses" is simply more proof that Lafferty was an exceptional writer whose work remains hard to classify. And out of all the.
Samuel R. Delany's "Aye, And Gommorah" may best preview what was eventually to come, science fiction with a technological. For Dangerous Visions was part of an attempted revolution in science fiction.
Through the New Wave, the methods, styles, and to. Ellison was not alone in. Michael Moorcock, Judith Merril and others were also promoting a new way of approaching SF.
If they and the New Wave did not. SF was written, (the exploration of an invented world through the use of an adventure plot remains the.
SF story outline), they did succeed in pushing the boundaries of what could be considered SF, and their use of. SF helped raise standards.
It became less easy for writers to get away with stock characters. Such stories still exist, and are still published, but are no longer typical. That's the reason Dangerous Visions remains important and worth celebrating thirty- five years later. The call for. experimentation that Harlan Ellison demanded from the anthologies' contributors resulted in some good stories, some bad, and several. What Ellison and his fellow writers brought to SF had as much to do with their attitude as. SF up and helped it to continue to grow beyond its original genre limitations. For a generation, the main holdout to that attitude, and that sense of style, was hard SF.
How that changed over the last fifteen. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's The Hard SF Renaissance.
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The New York Review of Science Fiction.