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4.0 out of 5 stars
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By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: THE FANTASY HALL OF FAME: Come Lady Death; Faith of Our Fathers; Demoness; Buffalo Gals; Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Lottery; Compleat Werewolf; Drowned Giant; Narrow Valley; Ghost of a Model T; Detective of Dreams; The Jaguar Hunter (Hardcover)
This is a book of stories chosen by a vote of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America association, in the mid-nineties. Apparently in a six month process they voted for their favorite stories, etc. Because writers are slow and can't think of their favorites it takes them six months? Bizarre. Anyway, doesn't really maker how long they took to do it. It was apparently produced had a Science Fiction Hall of fame volume, multiple, actually, as the novellas etc. go in other books of the series. These came out in the late sixties, but the fantasy name change inclusion for the SFWA was 1992 according to the book's intro.
Anyway, there is an earlier book with this title, and the same editors. I should quote the famous Tim of LibraryThing on the non-brightness of doing that. The limitation they chose was the stories had to be post 1939, when Unknown Worlds, the fantasy magazine edited by John W. Campbell started, because it had logically worked out fantasy, or something. The other limitation is no longer stories, novellas, etc. 'May be a future volume with those' to paraphrase the intro. No sign of it 10 years later though, it seems, so you could probably make it one of those 1000/1 William Hill novelties if you wanted. So, right from that you are pretty much likely to get a book that is inferior to the early volume. No Lovecraft, Howard, Smith, Poe, etc. That certainly turns out to be the case, with a 3.60 average, compared to 3.66. It is still a good book, just not an excellent one, and no real Hall of Fame, with less standouts. You could call it The Modern Hall of Fame, perhaps, although calling the thirties or early forties modern doesn't sound too modern to me. So if you have a choice and just want to get one of these Hall Of Fame books, get the earlier volume. Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Trouble with Water - H. L. Gold Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Nothing in the Rules - L. Sprague de Camp Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Fruit of Knowledge - C. L. Moore Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luís Borges Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Compleat Werewolf [Fergus O'Breen] - Anthony Boucher Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Small A55a55in - Ray Bradbury Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Lottery - Shirley Jackson Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Our Fair City - Robert A. Heinlein Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : There Shall Be No Darkness - James Blish Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Loom of Darkness [Liane the Wayfarer] - Jack Vance Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - Margaret St.Clair Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Silken-Swift - Theodore Sturgeon Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Golem - Avram Davidson Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Operation Afreet - Poul Anderson Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : That H3ll-Bound Train - Robert Bloch Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Bazaar of the Bizarre - Fritz Leiber Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Come Lady Death - Peter S. Beagle Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Drowned Giant - J. G. Ballard Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Narrow Valley - R. A. Lafferty Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : F@ith of Our Fathers - Philip K. Dick Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Ghost of a Model T - Clifford D. Simak Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Demoness - Tanith Lee Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Jeffty Is Five - Harlan Ellison Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Detective of Dreams - Gene Wolfe Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Unicorn Variations - Roger Zelazny Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Basileus - Robert Silverberg Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : The Jaguar Hunter - Lucius Shepard Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight - Ursula K. LeGuin Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson Fantasy Hall of Fame SFWA : Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang Gnome sweetener. 4.5 out of 5 Mermaid ring-in doesn't quite make the seal of sobriety. 4 out of 5 "Why," he stammered, "you...you're the Queen of Air and Darkness." 3.5 out of 5 Vague geography tract. 2.5 out of 5 Count3respionage canine capers. 4 out of 5 Rugrat's gonna get me, maybe I should get it first? 4 out of 5 Stone loser. 3.5 out of 5 Whirlwind collection. 3 out of 5 Werewolf symphony. 4 out of 5 Witchy Lith. 3 out of 5 Eyes for greed, will consume you. 3 out of 5 Virgin deception test, unicorn required. 3 out of 5 "I am not a human being!" 3.5 out of 5 Witchwolf teamup success requires djinn psychology. 4 out of 5 Time-stop devil of a deal indecision. 4 out of 5 Wizard errands suck, so do commercial cr@psters. 4 out of 5 You like me? Great! Now you can be me! 4 out of 5 Shrinking from investigation. 3.5 out of 5 Ditch illusion psychic projection projectile fun. 3.5 out of 5 "Don't you see, Mr. Chien? You've learned something. The Leader is not the Leader; he is something else, but we can't tell what. Not yet. Mr. Chien, when all due respect, have you ever had your drinking water analyzed? I know it sounds paranoiac, but have you?" 3.5 out of 5 Dead drive ok with me if booze is good. 3 out of 5 Succubus. Sword. Swing. Simple. Ask her, stoopid. 4 out of 5 Parents eventual terminal lack of patience with kid with the brilliant new old stuff. 5 out of 5 Ex3cution not too well d___. 3 out of 5 Mythological species replacement with sasquatch chess master. 4 out of 5 Computing angel Cunningham countdown plan. 3.5 out of 5 Man decides sexy werejaguar is better than cr@ppy American cop show. 4 out of 5 Don't eat the salmon. 2.5 out of 5 Hibernatin's a big ol' waste of time. 4 out of 5 Built like a brick lighthouse tunnelway to heaven. 3.5 out of 5
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