Peter Tillman's Reviews > Again, Dangerous Visions

Sequel to the more famous first, and, well, stories of variable quality. TOC here: https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?224813

It was a pretty good anthology, with a few stone classics, such as UKL's "The Word for World Is Forest" -- which is classed as a novella or short novel: at 41,300 words it's at the borderline. It won the 1973 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Very readable but pretty heavy-handed. I gave it a weak 4 stars, but have only read it once, in 1973.

Anyway. Never re-read ADV and likely won't. Here's a retro-review by the ineffable Jo Walton:
"It’s not that I’d exactly forgotten what an annoying, bombastic, self-important, irritating person Ellison was, but I kind of had, and reading the introduction and the intros to the stories here brought it all back. Dangerous Visions was a significant anthology, and I loved it. This later volume is much less impressive, even if I discount all the Ellison self-promotional nonsense. It has some top-notch work by Le Guin, Wilhelm, and others, but also a lot of quite lacklustre forgettable work. I remembered it as being not as good, but… well, sometimes the suck fairy works overtime."
https://reactormag.com/jo-waltons-rea... Hee hee.