Book Description
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, honored the best of science fiction's early short stories. This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas written between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor novellas that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson.


About the Author
A six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog, former editorial director of Omni, and past president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America, Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction. He lives in Florida.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A is tagged as a collection of "the greatest science fiction novellas of all time," as chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), a guild of professional writers that also sponsors the annual Nebula Awards. And with a list of legendary luminaries that includes Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, C. M. Kornbluth, and H. G. Wells, who's to argue?

Every single one of the 11 novellas included in this anthology -- which encompasses works predating 1964 -- are considered genre classics. Contained within are Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands," a chilling cautionary tale about robots programmed to serve humans and guard them from harm; Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe," which explores the psychic relationship between a crippled human scientist and a "pseudojovian" creature on the surface of Jupiter; and arguably Sturgeon's most famous work, "Baby Is Three," an unforgettable examination into the gestalt of being. Also included are Wells's "The Time Machine" and "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr., a psychological thriller about researchers in an Antarctic camp who discover the body of a frozen extraterrestrial (the basis for the classic movie The Thing).

Editor Ben Bova describes this collection as "the definitive anthology in this field, the collective choice of the practitioners of the science fiction art themselves." Aficionados of classic science fiction and genre historians alike will surely agree -- a shelf-bending Golden Age collection worth its weight in gold. Paul Goat Allen

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