The sequel-anthology to Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking 1967 New Wave Science Fiction anthology Dangerous Visions. Due to the size of it, it has been released in two volumes (although originally in one).
Like Dangerous Visions, it also features introductions to each story by Harlan, who talks about the writer, and an afterward by the writer about the story.
The planned sequel to ADV would have been The Last Dangerous Visions, but, well... Harlan didn't like to talk about it (though Christopher Priest (novelist) is happy to
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Tropes found in the Stories in Again, Dangerous Visions:
The tropes found in each story (as well as in the introductions and afterwords) are listed under the story in question.- "The Counterpoint of View" by John Heidenry
- "Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne
- While Rome Burns - The story begins at a goodbye party for Earth.
- My Instincts Are Showing - the cat boy protagonist has issues.
- "The Word for World Is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "For Value Received" by Andrew J. Offutt
- "Mathoms From the Time Closet" — "1: Robot's Story", "2: Against The Lafayette Escadrille" and "3: Loco Parentis" by Gene Wolfe
- "Time Travel For Pedestrians" by Ray Nelson
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: The Mental Time Travel is conducted by ingesting morning glory seeds.
- Mental Time Travel: The first-person narrator sends his mind back in stages all the way to Christ's time.
- "Christ, Old Student in a New School" (poem) by Ray Bradbury
- "King of the Hill" by Chad Oliver
- "The 10:00 Report Is Brought to You by..." by Edward Bryant
- "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm
- "Harry the Hare" by James B. Hemesath
- "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ (Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
- "The Big Space Fuck" by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cluster F-Bomb: In the story, swearing became completely acceptable. Even the President of the United States uses profanity in his speeches. In fact, quite a bit of the story consists of profanity.
- Freudian Excuse: The government allows people to sue their parents for ruining their lives with their parenting. This is done to discourage reproduction, since the world is dangerously overpopulated.
- Intentionally Awkward Title: The story was expressly written so that Vonnegut could include the word 'fuck' in the title. It's notable that this is the first instance of the word being used as part of the title of a non-pornographic printed story.
- Polluted Wasteland: The whole planet. The eponymous action is undertaken because Earth is dying from pollution.
- "Bounty" by T. L. Sherred
- "Still-Life" by K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N Malzberg)
- "Stoned Counsel" by H. H. Hollis
- "Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations" — 1: "The Bisquit Position" and 2: "The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements" by Bernard Wolfe
- "With A Finger in My I" by David Gerrold
- "In the Barn" by Piers Anthony
- "Soundless Evening" by Lee Hoffman
- (the title is an ink blot) by Gahan WilsonJust to clarify: the title of the story is not "(the title is an ink blot)"—the title IS an ink blot.
- "The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward" by Joan Bernott
- "And the Sea Like Mirrors" by Gregory Benford
- "Bed Sheets Are White" by Evelyn Lief
- "Tissue": "At the Fitting Shop" and "53rd American Dream" by James Sallis
- "Elouise And The Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" by Josephine Saxton
- "Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home" by Ken McCullough
- "Epiphany For Aliens" by David Kerr
- "Eye of the Beholder" by Burt K. Filer
- "Moth Race" by Richard Hill
- "In Re Glover" by Leonard Tushnet
- "Zero Gee" by Ben Bova
- "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" by Dean R. Koontz
- "Getting Along" by James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence
- "Totenbuch" by A Parra (Y Figueredo)
- "Things Lost" by Thomas M. Disch
- "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" by Richard A. Lupoff
- "Lamia Mutable" by M John Harrison
- "Last Train to Kankakee" by Robin Scott
- "Empire of the Sun" by Andrew Weiner
- "Ozymandias" by Terry Carr
- "The Milk of Paradise" by James Tiptree Jr.
