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Posted 2015-02-27 4:40 PM (#9736 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		Has anyone read Harlan Ellison's Again Dangerous Visions?

I got it because it included The Word for World is Forest. Ursula K Le Guin. What a great novella. It must have been the inspiration of the movie Avatar.

But I've become a little disenchanted with Again Dangerous Visions. I read Dangerous Visions years ago and reread it recently. Now I'm struggling through it's sequel. It's quite voluminous, and I think it's dulled my appetite for short stories. Ellison gives a sometimes long winded and sometimes (dare I say it?) self-aggrandizing or name-dropping introduction to each story. I used to be a fan of Ellison, years and years ago, but now I find myself skimming over these introductions to get to the next story. And having grown weary of the stories, some of which haven't proven to be as good as I had hoped, I'm reading a story or two between novels, which means it will take me months to finish this tome.

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