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''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is a mooted sequel to the science fiction short story anthologies ''Dangerous Visions'' and ''Again, Dangerous Visions'', originally published in 1967 and 1972 respectively. Like the first two, it was scheduled to be edited by Harlan Ellison. The projected third collection was started but, controversially, is yet to be finished. It has become something of a legend in science fiction as the genre's most famous unpublished book.〔Paul Tomlinson, ''Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography'', 2003, p. 41〕〔David Langford, ''The Sex Column and Other Misprints'', 2005, pp. 11-12〕 It was originally announced for publication in 1973, but other work demanded Ellison's attention and the anthology has not seen print to date. He has come under criticism for his treatment of some writers who submitted their stories to him, who some estimate to number nearly 150.〔(The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction )〕 Many of these writers have since died. Various difficulties delayed publication many times. As recently as May 2007, Ellison said he still wants to get the book out.〔(NEWSARAMA.COM: HARLAN ELLISON: BRING ON THE DANCING FROGS, Part 2 (via the Internet Archive) )〕 British author Christopher Priest, whose story "An Infinite Summer" had been accepted for the collection, wrote a lengthy critique of Ellison's failure to complete the LDV project. It was first published by Priest as a one-shot fanzine called ''The Last Deadloss Visions'', a pun on the title of Priest's own fanzine, ''Deadloss''. It proved so popular that it had a total of three printings in the UK and later, in book form, as the 1995 Hugo Award nominated ''The Book on the Edge of Forever'' (an allusion to Ellison's ''Star Trek'' episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever") by American publisher Fantagraphics Books. The essay is available online at the (Internet Archive mirror ) of the original site. ==1979 contents list== It was announced in the April 1979 issue of ''Locus'' that the anthology had been sold to Berkley Books, who planned to publish the 700,000 words of fiction in three volumes. The following tables of contents were published in the June 1979 issue of ''Locus''. Story titles are followed by an approximate word count. Also note that the totals given for each book do not exactly match the published list. Authors marked with a '†' are known to have died since submitting their work to Ellison. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Last Dangerous Visions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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