Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction is now available for pre-order at Amazon for the low, low price of only $4.99 in Kindle format! Publication date is Monday, October 12, 2020. Order your copy today! The book will also be available in trade paperback, Nook, Kobo, and other popular e-formats.
This volume includes two short novels and five short stories, all of which push the boundaries of taboo in science fiction. An English archeologist who yearns for the love of a young Jewish refuge sets out to convince a majority of the world’s population that the Holocaust never happened — hoping to not only wipe it from the annals of history, but also from reality. The Martian colony Bradbury sends an investigator to pursue a gay Uyghur murderer in a future Australian city where members of each ethnic and grievance group are invisible to all those who don’t belong to their tribe. A far-future academic treatise describes a rediscovered Fusionist liturgical text that combines the writings of radical feminist Joanna Russ and female slavery fantasist John Norman. An aggressively therapeutic State of Florida lovingly wraps its bureaucratic tentacles around those it deems unenlightened. A born-again Christian cafeteria worker in a small Texas college town becomes the only friend of an insectoid alien come to evacuate humanity from a doomed Earth. These stories leave no sacred cows unprodded.
Strange path from Dangerous Visions.
Why not give the books a try and see for yourself how closely they hew to the spirit of Harlan Ellison’s anthologies?
Already ordered. Looking forward to reading it. I just find it interesting how the gatekeepers then and now are mirror images of each other, and how much they’d both hate having that pointed out to them.
Mark, thank you for taking the plunge! Please let me know what you think, either here or through Amazon. I’ll be very interested to hear.