Great Original Anthologies?

[J-Sun]

I started to post this in Classic SF but I only want to emphasize classics rather than restrict it exclusively to that. But, for this thread, I'm curious about original anthologies exclusively - not reprint anthologies or collections or magazines or whatever - Dangerous Visions (1967) is the go-to example, despite its atypical style. There is a thread that touches on this topic, but is focused on then-current stuff and allows for reprints as long as they're recent, so wasn't quite what I'm talking about. So what original anthologies strike Chronners as the great ones?

 

[Cat's Cradle]

The Orbit series by Damon Knight pops right into mind...I had a number of these, and the stories were amazing!

 

[hitmouse]

Black Water ed. Alberto Manguel
Blast Off ed. Harry Harrison

 

[Randy M.]

Hitmouse, the Manguel is a great anthology but it didn't have any new stories. It contained nothing but reprints.

J-Sun: Are you looking strictly for s.f. or including fantasy and/or horror?


Randy M.

 

[J-Sun]

The Orbit series by Damon Knight pops right into mind...I had a number of these, and the stories were amazing!

Good one - I don't think I've ever read one directly, but I've read a lot of stories from that series in reprint anthologies. The late 60s-70s were a golden age for the original anthology series, as opposed to the singletons that may or may not have a sequel or two - Terry Carr had the Universe series (I have read one of those) and Silverberg and Delany and others had their own series.

Hitmouse, the Manguel is a great anthology but it didn't have any new stories. It contained nothing but reprints.

The Harrison is a reprint, too.

J-Sun: Are you looking strictly for s.f. or including fantasy and/or horror?

Well, I'm looking strictly for SF but it's possible someone could mention a fantasy/horror that would appeal to me and, while I have a personal interest, the thread would probably be more useful for more people if it included F/H so I guess anything's fair game.

 

[dask]

Here's a few with Stephen Goldin as associate editor:



There's also Roy Torgenson's two original series, CHRYSALIS for sf, and OTHER WORLDS for fantasy.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Star Science Fiction Stories series, edited by Frederik Pohl in the 1950's, was groundbreaking.

I liked the Universe series, edited by Terry Carr in the 1970's and 1980's.

For horror, an outstanding one-shot was Dark Forces (1980), edited by Kirby McCauley.

 

[Nerds_feather]

If you like fantasy, Fearsome Journeys (ed. Jonathan Strahan) is really good. And he has Reach for Infinity (which is original SF) coming out soon.