Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
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Dangerous Visions

Author: Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Suzanne Toren, various narrators, Robert Fass, Edoardo Ballerini, Vikas Adam, JD Jackson, James Patrick Cronin, Ramiz Monsef, Thom Rivera, Scott Aiello, Tim Campbell, Heath Miller, P.J. Ochlan, Mara Wilson, Joel Froomkin, Neil Hellegers, Bradford Hastings, Joe Hempel, Steven Jay Cohen, Shiromi Arserio, Natalie Naudus, Mark Sanderlin, John Pirhalla, Stefan Rudnicki, Grover Gardner, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Dion Graham, Bronson Pinchot, Neil Shah, Jim Meskimen, Feodor Chin, Steve West, Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 24 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/26/2024

Synopsis

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike. A landmark short-story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. Contributing authors include: Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, and Ellison himself.As relevant now as it was when first published, Dangerous Visions is a phenomenal collection that deserves a place on every bookshelf.

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) wrote and edited more than 120 books and more than 1,700 stories, essays, and articles, as well as dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He won the Hugo Award nine times, the Nebula Award four times, the Bram Stoker Award six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès Fantasy Film Award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer’s union. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006.

About Suzanne Toren

Suzanne Toren, award-winning narrator, has over thirty years of experience in narration. She was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She has won the American Foundation for the Blind’s Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year, AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture, and she is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. She performs on and off Broadway and in regional theaters and has appeared on Law & Order and in various soap operas.

About Robert Fass

Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for the year’s best narration. He has earned many Earphones Awards and AudioFile magazine “Best of the Year” accolades.

About Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.

About Vikas Adam

Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor with numerous credits in stage, film, commercials, and television, in addition to his hundreds of recorded audiobooks. In 2025 he was named a Golden Voice, AudioFile magazine’s lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators. His narrations have garnered numerous other awards and nominations, including more than twenty-five AudioFile Earphones Awards, various Best of the Year lists, and the prestigious Audie Award. He was an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.

About JD Jackson

JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.

About James Patrick Cronin

James Patrick Cronin began his audiobook career at twelve years of age opposite Christopher Lloyd in The Pagemaster. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, he has recorded over one hundred audiobooks across an extensive range of genres. A classically trained stage actor with an MFA from the University of Louisville and a degree in philosophy, he has spent his years since college performing as an actor and a comedian on stages all over the world. He has performed everything from the classics to original material in Ireland, Scotland, Serbia, and Israel, as well as all across the United States.

About Ramiz Monsef

Ramiz Monsef has spent several seasons as a member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting company, and he is the playwright of OSF’s 2013 production The Unfortunates. He has also appeared onstage in New York and in numerous regional productions.

About Scott Aiello

Scott Aiello has narrated over a dozen audiobooks and is a 2013 Audie Award finalist for his nonfiction narration of Sex and God at Yale by author Nathan Harden. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School drama division and has since performed and directed various New York plays and has been seen on television shows such as Person of Interest and Elementary. Before Juilliard, he was a regular in the Chicago theater circuit.

About Tim Campbell

Tim Campbell, winner of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a narrator and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California and earned a BA in music and theater and a certification from the prestigious Great Books program at Pepperdine University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera Chorus, as well as on studio soundtracks for film and television.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Olethros on August 03, 2018

-De los tres volúmenes, quizá el más “raro”.- Género. Relatos. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Visiones peligrosas II (publicación original: Dangerous Visions, 1967) es la segunda parte de una famosa antología, que en español se publicó en tres volúmenes como su edición de 1969, y que en la actualidad tod......more

Goodreads review by Ale on January 06, 2017

Sigue habiendo autores buenos y autores que me han decepcionado, creo que será inevitable teniendo en cuenta que son tomos de una misma antología, por lo que el editor es el mismo, y no coincidimos completamente en gustos. En los status tienen una pequeña opinión con la nota correspondiente a cada re......more

Goodreads review by Julio on October 13, 2022

Continuamos con la lectura de la, posiblemente, antología más famosa y revolucionaria de la ciencia ficción, un compendio de historias impublicables por sus temáticas atrevidas, su lenguaje provocador y su afán comprometido y abiertamente contestatario. Este segundo tomo rebaja la calidad y, quizá p......more

Goodreads review by Aracne on October 17, 2020

*Eutopía 2 estrellas / 16-10-2020......more

Goodreads review by Luke Dylan on April 12, 2023

B/B+ [URL not allowed] - video review of Dangerous Visions Overall, I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. Some of the stories were amazing but most were just pretty good, and some were downright awful. Ellison’s little introductions to the stories were somewhat obnoxious. I......more

Quotes

“The words—there is an attention to the words. There is an attention to the sound of the words. You’re reading them in your head, and they sing.”

“A bevy of talented narrators delivers an iconic science fiction anthology.”

“He doesn’t write like anybody else. What emerges is a surprising, eclectic, almost protean series of visions, often disturbing, always strongly felt.”

“The incredible Harlan Ellison writes as if an inner fuse is about to blow before he can get all the words on his pages.”

“Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, stand aside. Harlan Ellison is now a better short-story writer than you will ever be again during the rest of your lives.”

“An original and valuable writer…A twentieth-century Lewis Carroll.”

“Harlan Ellison—terrific prose, razor-sharp intellect, pulp gut punches and invention when needed, terse poetics…An original.”

“Feisty, furious, yet extraordinarily kind and generous; Harlan Ellison was one of a kind.”

“The spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural  warehouse for a mind.”

“Harlan was not just a great fantasist and/or science fiction writer; he was a great writer, period. When he was at the top of his form, from the late 60s through the 70s and well into the 80s, there was no finer short-story writer in all of English literature.” 

Awards

  • Los Angeles Magazine Pick
  • Boing Boing Pick
  • AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
  • AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
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