Dangerous Visions
33 Original Stories
The anthology of stories the magazines of the day would not print, and the start of the New Wave.
Ellison commissioned stories the science-fiction magazines of the mid-1960s would not print, and published thirty-three of them with his own introductions to each. The anthology gave the New Wave its shape and its argument, won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and remains the collection most often credited with changing what the genre would allow itself to say.
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Orson Scott Card
Like Bradbury, his work is mostly short stories, and from masterpieces like “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” and “I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream” Ellison became the heart of the new wave. But it is in his role as the creator of anthologies that I recommend him here. He came up with the idea of a collection of stories that could not be published in the somewhat rule-bound magazines of the day.
Interview · October 2011
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