I am glad to have finally gotten to wiggle over to these pages. This one has been sitting untouched behind this bookshelf that will be my tomb for a while now. A fan of science fiction, short stories, and dangerous visions I had great hopes for this long awaited collection. The introductory essay/explanation why this anthology was never completed back in the 1970s absolutely destroyed me in ways I’ve only really encountered, fittingly enough, in reading the introductory essays of Ellison’s other compilations. Taking 50 years to finally publish and holding stories written across five decades it’s astonishing how The Last Dangerous Visions manages fold the past into the present and vice versa. The Great Forest Lawn Clearance Sale- Hurry, Last Days! By Stephen Dedman, John Morressy’s Rundown and The Final Pogrom by Dan Simmons all written decades before this books publication could have been a product of our yesterday. Meanwhile Cory Doctorow’s The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart) and Judas Iscariot Didn’t Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments by James S. A. Corey are anchored in a now that 30 years down the line I wonder if they will act as time capsules of an unusual era or be just as fresh and familiar. As a worm I won’t be around long enough know, but I’ll forever be greatful for have inched my wormy self over to read the fantastic, uncomfortable, and wonderus things created for this collection. collection

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