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Subject: Info on "Dangerous Visions"
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 12:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 12:31:27 1983
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	Gene Stafford -- now you've opened the floodgates! DV, and
ADV are probably the most-read books in my collection; and if Harlan
Ellison ever produces TLDV, I'll sell my grandmother (if need be)
to buy it...

	For those of you that don't know what the raving is about, some
of the awards garnered by DV (just the first book) are:

Samuel R. Delany	"Aye, and Gomorrah"		Nebula Award
Fritz Leiber		"Gonna Roll the Bones"		Nebula and Hugo Awards
Phillip Jose Farmer	"Riders of the Purple Wage"	Hugo Award
Phillip K. Dick		"Faith of Our Fathers"		Hugo Runnerup
Larry Niven		"The Jigsaw Man"		Hugo Runnerup
Theodore Sturgeon	"If All Men Were Brothers..."	Nebula Runnerup

	Some of the other authors included in this anthology are:
Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, Norman Spinrad, Brian W. Aldiss, Lester del Rey,
Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner,
Keith Laumer, R.A. Lafferty, and J.G. Ballard.  It's GOOD.

	As to the query about the story concerning the being hunted down
by humans, with the final line... "But I am Man.  Come!" ...it's
"Evensong" by Lester del Rey.
	
	As to the query about favorites...Evensong is certainly one,
along with "Riders..." -- which manages to be touching and bawdy 
simultaneously, and the pair "A Toy for Juliette" and "The Prowler in
the City at the Edge of the World", both concerning Jack the Ripper and
his exploits in the future...for those of you discussing organ banks,
read "The Jigsaw Man"...and for post-holocaust folk (see net.movies),
try "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?".  One last favorite: "Carcinoma Angels",
the story of Harrison Wintergreen, who stepped inside his own body to
do battle with the Carcinoma Angels...can't say any more without spoiling it.

	Buy it.  Steal it.  GET it.

		Darth Wombat, about to return to reading
		"Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade".