The Last Dangerous Visions
short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison
The Last Dangerous Visions (often abbreviated TLDV, sometimes as LDV) is a 2024 original speculative fiction anthology following Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). Like its predecessors, it was edited by American author Harlan Ellison, with introductions to be provided by him. Ellison died in 2018 with the anthology unfinished.
In 2020, the Ellison estate's executor J. Michael Straczynski announced his intention to publish it. It was published by Blackstone Publishers on October 1, 2024.
Background
The third anthology was started but, controversially, failed to be published and became something of a legend in science fiction as the genre's most famous unpublished book. It was originally announced for publication in 1973, but did not see print until over fifty years later. Ellison came under criticism for his treatment of some writers who sold their stories to him, estimated to number around 120. Many of the writers died in the interim between Ellison's initial story acquisitions and the book's eventual publication more than five decades later.
British author Christopher Priest, whose story "An Infinite Summer" had been commissioned for TLDV in 1974 and withdrawn after four months without any response, wrote a lengthy critique of Ellison's failure to complete the project.
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