Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction by Andrew FoxMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is billed as being the intellectual child of Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions". I dropped out after the fourth story.
Essentially, the author was looking for an opportunity to say outrageous things for the purpose of saying outrageous things rather than to provoke readers to consider different perspectives.
Things started going decidedly downhill when the fourth story suggested that Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic to prove the world was round. Not quite. People had known that the world was round for centuries at that point. What was unknown what the planet looked like west of west where it finally meets the east.
It went on from there to set down a contorted storyline where the Jews end up loving Hitler.
See what I mean about being outrageous for the purpose of being outrageous.
The other stories that I read were decent, but not great. Mark this one as a collection with a lot of potential that didn't quite pan out.
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