J. Michael Straczynski shared an update about Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Visions in social media today.
Blackstone Publishing has release dates and pre-order pages for the first two anthologies in the series.
Dangerous Visions — release date March 26, 2024
Again, Dangerous Visions — release date June 1, 2024
Also, these two books now link to Blackstone Publishing’s Harlan Ellison author page.
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Time for devils to get ice skates pre-ordered?
Have we seen a table of contents anywhere? This is very exciting.
@Dave
There has been no public TOC for TLDV. Here is what we have so far, based on public postings by JMS (and by Cory Doctorow) (There may be more information on the JMS Patreon for TLDV, I have not subscribed to that Patreon)
I have divided this list into new (bought by JMS) and old stories, some are my best guesses.
New stories
Cory Doctorow, Jeffty is Five
James S.A. Corey
Neil Gaiman
Probably new
Patton Oswalt
Max Brooks
Cecil Castelluci
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Old TLDV
John Morressy, “Rundown”
Edward Bryant
DM Rowles
Stephen Dedman
Jonathan Fast
Howard Fast
Robert Sheckley
Probably old
Stephen Robinette
Dan Simmons
Previously unpublished writer
Kayo Hartenbaum, “Binary System”
Hope this helps.
Roger
Since the late great Ed Bryant was the very first real no-foolin’ pro SF writer I met (still miss him) and since that story of his in DV or ADV (I forget which) is eerily prescient, I’m looking forward to that one.
(I owe my ability to balance a spoon on the end of my nose entirely to Ed, and I think he’d consider that a good obit.)
I trust there will be a lot more to it than the list above. LDV as Harlan left it was a very, very large collection. JMS has already said he’s discarding some of the contents, but if he discards a lot – even with a good reason for it – then the result would be more “a sampling of LDV” than LDV. Well, we’ll see: it would take Harlanesque levels of unreliability to default from this publication schedule, and one really hopes JMS would not do that. A full TOC would increase confidence, and let’s hope we get one soon.
I haven’t kept track of what’s new and what’s already appeared, but previously unpublished stories by Ed Bryant, Robert Sheckley, and Stephen Robinette, all no longer with us, would be a delight to have.
(8) thanks, I enjoyed reading Chandler, including his essays on writing.
(9) happy birthday, Dame Naomi! The Corn King and the Spring King is fabulous indeed, and Memoirs of a Spacewoman is a lot of fun. I read The Bull Calves (set in Scotland after the ‘45) last year and enjoyed it, with another I enjoyed even more, Cleopatra’s People. A great deal of Mitchison’s work is available. What a life! She made her big splash in the 1920s, but worked, travelled and wrote until almost her last day.