Harlan Ellison’s Last Dangerous Visions (unpublished) ed. Harlan Ellison (, 19??, hc, oa)
Ellison never published a final Table of Contents for his version of Last Dangerous Visions but three different drafts were published, and a number of ad-hoc announcements were made, amounting to a total of 125 stories by 113 different authors that were, at one time, considered for inclusion.
- · The Survivors; of the 125 stories originally considered, 24 are included in the version edited by J. Michael Straczynski.
- · The Danann Children Laugh · Mildred Downey Broxon · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · War Stories · Edward Bryant · nv The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · The Great Forest Lawn Clearance Sale—Hurry, Last Days! · Stephen Dedman · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · The Size of the Problem · Howard Fast · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024; previously announced as “All Creatures Great and Small”.
- · The Malibu Fault · Jonathan Fast · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Leveled Best · Steve Herbst · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Dark Threshold · P. C. Hodgell · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Falling from Grace · Ward Moore · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Rundown · John Morressy · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · None So Deaf · Richard E. Peck · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Assignment No.1 · Stephen Robinett · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Intermezzo 1-8 · D. M. Rowles · gp (r); previously announced as “Thumbing It on the Beam, and Other Magic Melting Moments”.
- _ · Intermezzo 1: Broken, Beautiful Body on Beach · D. M. Rowles · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 2: Bedtime Story · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 3: Even Beyond Olympus · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 4: Elemental · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 5: First Contact · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 6: Continuity · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 7: The Space Behind the Obvious · D. M. Rowles · vi The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- _ · Intermezzo 8: Proof · D. M. Rowles · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Primordial Follies · Robert Sheckley · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · The Final Pogrom · Dan Simmons · nv The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · Goodbye · Steven Utley · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · The Time of the Skin · A. E. van Vogt · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024; previously announced as “Skin”.
first published in German (1981).
- · A Night at the Opera · Robert Wissner · ss The Last Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Blackstone Publishing, 2024
- · The Escapees; a further 43 stories have been published elsewhere.
- · Where Are They Now? · Steven Bryan Bieler · ss Slow Trains.com Spring 2008
- · Dogs’ Lives · Michael Bishop · nv The Missouri Review Winter 1984
- · Pipeline to Paradise · Nelson S. Bond · ss Wheel of Fortune ed. Roger Zelazny & Martin H. Greenberg, AvoNova, 1995
- · Precis of the Rappacini Report [Rappaccini] · Anthony Boucher · vi The Compleat Boucher by Anthony Boucher, NESFA, 1999, as “Rappaccini’s Other Daughter”
- · Living Alone in the Jungle · Algis Budrys · ss Fantastic Chicago ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Chicon V, 1991
- · Childfinder · Octavia E. Butler · ss Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler, Open Road, 2014
- · Geriatric Ward · Orson Scott Card · nv Keeper of Dreams by Orson Scott Card, Tor, 2008
- · A Journey South · John Christopher · nv Interzone #44, February 1991
- · Various Kinds of Conceits · Arthur Byron Cover · nv The Unquiet Dreamer ed. Preston Grassmann, PS Publishing, 2019
- · The Carbon Dreamer · Jack Dann · nv Shivers VIII ed. Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance, 2019; originally announced as “The Carbon Dream”.
- · The Stone That the Builders Rejected · Avram Davidson · ss AD 100: Volume I by Avram Davidson, Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing, 2023; originally announced as “The Stone Which the Builders Rejected”.
- · The Names of Yanils · Chan Davis · ss Crank! #3, Spring 1994
- · Love Song · Gordon R. Dickson · ss The Best of Gordon R. Dickson: Volume 1 by Gordon R. Dickson, Baen, 2017
- · What Used to Be Called Dead · Leslie A. Fiedler · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1990
- · Giant Rat of Sumatra · The Firesign Theatre · pl The Firesign Theatre’s Big Mystery Joke Book by The Firesign Theatre, Straight Arrow, 1974
- · Among the Beautiful Bright Children · James E. Gunn · nv The Dreamers by James Gunn, Simon and Schuster, 1981, as “The Historian”
- · Fantasy for Six Electrodes and One Adrenaline Drip · Joe Haldeman · pl A Separate War and Other Stories by Joe Haldeman, Ace, 2006
- · Stark and the Star Kings [Eric John Stark; John Gordon] · Edmond Hamilton & Leigh Brackett · ss Stark and the Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton & Leigh Brackett, Haffner Press, 2005
- · Signals · Charles L. Harness · na Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 1 ed. George Zebrowski, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987
- · A Dog and His Boy · Harry Harrison · ss Overload ed. Martin Tudor, Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1995
- · Michal Without [People] · Zenna Henderson · nv Ingathering by Zenna Henderson, NESFA, 1995
- · The Daddy Box · Frank Herbert · ss The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert by Frank Herbert, Tor, 2014; originally announced as “The Accidental Ferosslk”.
- · Squad D · Stephen King · ss Shivers VIII ed. Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance, 2019
- · How Dobbstown Was Saved · Bob Leman · ss Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories by Bob Leman, Midnight House, 2002
- · The Bones Do Lie · Anne McCaffrey · ss The Girl Who Heard Dragons by Anne McCaffrey, Tor, 1994
- · XYY · Vonda N. McIntyre · ss Little Sisters and Other Stories by Vonda N. McIntyre, Goldsmiths Press, 2024
- · The Murderer’s Song [Jerry Cornelius] · Michael Moorcock · nv Tales from the Forbidden Planet ed. Roz Kaveney, Titan, 1987
originally published in German in Tor Zu Den Sternen, ed. Peter Wilfert, 1981.
- · The Swastika Set-Up [Jerry Cornelius] · Michael Moorcock · nv Corridor #4, Winter 1972
- · The Last Shot · Jerry Pournelle · ss The Best of Jerry Pournelle by Jerry Pournelle, Baen Books, 2019; originally announced as “Free Enterprise”.
- · An Infinite Summer [Dream Archipelago] · Christopher Priest · nv Andromeda 1 ed. Peter Weston, Orbit, 1976
- · Potiphee, Petey, and Me · Tom Reamy · nv Under the Hollywood Sign by Tom Reamy, Subterranean Press, 2023
- · Baby Brother · Kit Reed · ss What Wolves Know by Kit Reed, PS Publishing, 2011; originally announced as “The Sibling”.
- · The Senior Prom · Fred Saberhagen · ss Prom Night ed. Nancy Springer & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1999
- · Dark Night in Toyland · Bob Shaw · ss Interzone #26, November/December 1988
- · I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air · Clifford D. Simak · nv I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories by Clifford D. Simak, Open Road Integrated Media, 2015
- · Himself in Anachron · Cordwainer Smith · ss The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith, NESFA, 1993
- · Ten Times Your Fingers and Double Your Toes · Craig Strete · ss If All Else Fails… by Craig Strete, Doubleday, 1980
- · A Thin Silver Line · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss The Unquiet Dreamer ed. Preston Grassmann, PS Publishing, 2019
- · The Bellman [Anna-Louise Bach] · John Varley · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2003
- · Universe on the Turn · Ian Watson · ss Last Wave v1 #4, 1984
- · Not All a Dream · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Haffner Press, April 2024
- · Previews of Hell · Jack Williamson · ss Seventy-Five by Jack Williamson, Haffner Press, 2004
- · At the Sign of the Boar’s Head Nebula · Richard Wilson · ss The Story Writer and Other Stories by Richard Wilson, Ramble House, 2011
- · Partial Escapees; a further 5 stories have appeared, one on the author’s website, one as an audio download, one in Japanese and 2 in the French originals without the planned English translation.
- · Halfway There · Stan Dryer · ss
available online on Stan Dryer’s Blog.
- · The Taut Arc of Desire · Philippe Curval · ss
published in French (“L’Arc Tendu du Désir”, L’Astronaute Mort, 1995).
- · To Have and to Hold · Langdon Jones · ss
available as an audio download from StarShipSofa, #146, July 28, 2010.
- · Mama’s Girl · Daniel Keyes · ss
published in Japanese (Kokoro no kagami, Hayakawa, 1993).
- · The 100 Million Horses of Planet Dada · Daniel Walther · ss
published in French (“Les Mille Millions de Chevaux de la Planète Dada”, Lunatique #96, 2008).
- · The Lost Dangerous Visions; the remaining 53 stories are missing from the Straczynski volume and it is likely most will now never be published.
- · Search Cycle: Beginning and Ending · Russell Bates · gp
- _ · The Last Quest · Russell Bates · ss
- _ · Fifth and Last Horseman · Russell Bates · ss
- · Emerging Nation · Alfred Bester · ss
- · Cargo Run · S. Kye Boult · nv
- · The Accidents of Blood · Frank Bryning · ss
- · Cacophony in Pink and Ochre · Doris Pitkin Buck · ss
- · Doug, Where Are We? I Don’t Know. A Spaceship, Maybe. · Grant Carrington · ss
- · The Bing Bang Blues · Delbert Casada · ss
- · The True Believers · A. Bertram Chandler · ss
- · The Burning Zone · Graham Charnock · ss
- · Suzy Is Something Special · Michael G. Coney · nv
- · Blackstop · Gerard Conway · ss
- · Copping Out · Hank Davis · ss
- · [unknown story] · Gardner Dozois · ss
- · A Time for Praying · G. C. Edmondson · ss
- · False Premises · George Alec Effinger · gp
- _ · The Capitals Are Wrong · George Alec Effinger · ss
- _ · Stage Fright · George Alec Effinger · ss
- _ · Rocky Colavito Batted .268 in 1955 · George Alec Effinger · ss
- _ · Fishing with Hemingway · George Alec Effinger · ss
- · The Children of Bull Wood · Gordon Eklund · ss; also listed as “The Children of Bull Weed”.
- · Adversaries · Franklin Fisher · ss
- · A Day in the Life of A-420 · Felix C. Gotschalk · ss
- · The Return of Agent Black · Ron Goulart · ss
- · Play Sweetly, in Harmony · Joseph Green · ss
- · [unknown story] · Wyman Guin · ss
- · Golgotha · Graham Hall · ss
- · √-1 Think, Therefore √-1 Am · Leonard Isaacs · vi
- · Uncle Tom’s Time Machine · John Jakes · ss
- · On the Way to the Woman of Your Dreams · Raul Judson · ss
- · Two from Kotzwinkle’s Bestiary · William Kotzwinkle · ss
- · Grandma, What’s the Sky Made Of? · Susan C. Lette · ss
- · Return to Elf Hill · Robert Lilly · vi
- · End · Raylyn Moore · nv
- · Las Animas · Janet Nay · ss
- · The Life and the Clay · Edgar Pangborn · ss
- · The Residents of Kingston · Doris Piserchia · ss
- · The Red Dream · Charles Platt · ss
- · The Dawn Patrol · P. J. Plauger · ss
- · A Night at Madame Mephisto’s · Joseph F. Pumilia · ss
- · Ponce De Leon’s Pants · Mack Reynolds · ss
- · The Isle of Sinbad · Thomas N. Scortia · ss
- · Living Inside · Bruce Sterling · ss
- · The Amazonas Link · James Sutherland · ss
- · Son of “Wild in the Streets” · Robert Thom · nv
- · Ugly Duckling Gets the Treatment and Becomes Cinderella Except Her Foot’s Too Big for the Prince’s Slipper and Is Webbed Besides · Robert Thurston · ss
- · Dick and Jane Go to Mars · Wilson Tucker · ss
- · [unknown story] · George Turner · ss
- · Child of Mind · Lisa Tuttle · ss
- · On the Other Side of Space, In the Lobby of the Potlatch Inn · Wallace West · ss
- · Final Entry · Connie Willis · ss
- · A Rousing Explanation of the Events Surrounding My Sister’s Death · David Wise · ss
- · The Seadragon · Laurence Yep · ss
- · Dreamwork, A Novel · Pamela Zoline · nv
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