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It was a defining work of the New Wave science fiction movement, particularly in its depiction of sex in science fiction.

The anthology contains many classic stories, and the list of authors reads like a Who's Who of 1960s science fiction talent.

Dangerous Visions was followed by a second collection, Again, Dangerous Visions. A projected third collection, The Last Dangerous Visions, has yet to be published. Ellison has been severely criticized for not publishing the volume or returning control of the stories to their authors, some of whom have since died. British SF author Christopher Priest's lengthy attack on Ellison about this was published as The Last Deadloss Visions in the UK and as The Book on the Edge of Forever in the US. The essay was once available online but Priest has since requested the essay be withdrawn from the internet.

The stories and authors in the original Dangerous Visions anthology were:

• " Auto-Da-Fe " by Roger Zelazny
• " Aye, and Gomorrah... " by Samuel R. Delany
• " Carcinoma Angels " by Norman Spinrad
• " The Day After the Day the Martians Came " by Frederik Pohl
• " The Doll-House " by James Cross
• " Encounter with a Hick " by Jonathan Brand
• " Ersatz" by Henry Slesar
• " The Escaping " by David R. Bunch
• " Eutopia" by Poul AndersonPoul Anderson ( November 25, 1926 July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms "A. Craig", "Michael Karageorge", and "Winston P. Poul Anderson has also written
• " Evensong " by Lester del ReyLester del Rey Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey ( June 2 1915 May 10 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He first started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. Consequently, he is considered one of the original "Grand Ma
• " Faith of our FathersFaith Of Our Fathers is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the anthology Dangerous Visions. The story is a horrifying vision of a God that is all-devouring and amoral, and is a sharp depiction of religious despair that pre" by Philip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick ( December 16 1928 March 2 1982), often known by his initials PKD or by the pen name Richard Phillips was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. Though hailed during his lifetime by peers such
• " Flies " by Robert SilverbergRobert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY) is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg, a voracious reader from childhood on, began submitting stories to the
• " Foreword 1 - The Second Revolution " by Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 April 6, 1992) was a Russian-born American author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his science books for the lay person. He also wrot
• " Foreword 2 - Harlan and I " by Isaac Asimov
• " From the Government Printing Office " by Kris Neville
• " Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird " by Sonya Dorman
• " Gonna Roll the Bones " by Fritz LeiberFritz Reuter Leiber Jr. December 24, 1910 September 5, 1992) was an influential American writer of fantasy and science fiction. To describe him as popular, amongst both fans and his fellow writers, might be an understatement: his science fiction novels Th
• " The Happy Breed " by John SladekJohn Thomas Sladek ( December 15, 1937 March 10, 2000) was an American science-fiction author. He was known for his satirical and surrealistic novels. Born in Minnesota in 1937, Sladek was in England in the 1960s for the New Wave movement. His first novel
• " If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? " by Theodore Sturgeon
• " Incident in Moderan " by David R. Bunch
• " The Jigsaw Man " by Larry Niven
• " Judas" by John Brunner
• " Land of the Great Horses " by R. A. Lafferty
• " Lord Randy, My Son " by Joe L. Hensley
• " The Malley System " by Miriam Allen deFord
• " The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice " by Howard Rodman
• " The Night That All Time Broke Out " by Brian W. Aldiss
• " The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World " by Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch
• " The Recognition " by J. G. Ballard
• " Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip José Farmer
• " Sex and/or Mr. Morrison " by Carol Emshwiller
• " Shall the Dust Praise Thee? " by Damon Knight
• " Test to Destruction " by Keith Laumer
• " Thirty-Two Soothsayers " by Harlan Ellison
• " A Toy for Juliette " by Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch
• " What Happened to Auguste Clarot? " by Larry Eisenberg

Publication dates and ISBNs for Dangerous Visions and sequels:

• Dangerous Visions (1968; BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Again Dangerous Visions (1972; BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Dangerous Visions 3 (1971; BooksEnthsiast.com)