Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:09:25 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: ebooks and Last not-so-Dangerous Visions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 4/30/2011 2:28 PM >>>
>Mike Walsh suggested it, possibly in jest,
>but I think it could actually have worked.
>Only, I think the whole project is long
>mothballed.

In an interview in 2007:

"I*d like to get The Last Dangerous Visions out of here. It*s this
giant Sisyphean rock that I have to keep rolling up a hill, and people
will not stop bugging me about it."
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20070526102148/http://www.newsarama.com/general/Ellison/interview_p2.html

http://tinyurl.com/67a4mnz

> Didn't most of the authors
>get the rights back anyway? I know some
>of them did.

And I believe many are glad the stories have reverted.  What was
dangerous  decades ago ... probably no so much these.  Consider Kij
Johnson's story "Spar" - a Hugo nominee & Nebula winner.  Decidedly
adult.

For those that haven't read it:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/
& the audio version:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_09/

>It would be kind of neat, though.
>Even if it were just put up on a website
>and people could subscribe to download or
>read the stories online, at their leisure,
>without having to get the whole mass at
>once.

A bunch of the stories have been published:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dangerous_Visions#Alternative_publications_of_the_stories

http://tinyurl.com/69fhr88

mjw