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Dangerous Visions 1 by Harlan Ellison

sexton_blake's review

4.0

Dangerous Visions, here divided into three volumes, is one of the most extraordinary SF anthologies ever. Riding the 1960s revolutionary impulse, it blew conventions to pieces and hauled the genre out of the mire of the by then age-tainted Golden Age. This, the first volume, is dominated by Philip Jóse Farmer’s novella, RIDERS OF THE PURPLE WAGE. A couple of pages into that particular story, I was thinking, “What the heck is this?” By the third page, I was sucked in. It is, without any doubt, a work of genius. That alone, makes this worth reading, but, the fact is, the other contributions are pretty damned brilliant, too. Essential SF!