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Science Fiction Hall of Fame: v. 1

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This is by far and away the master work off all that science fiction anthologies has given us.

Here is a complete list of the titles included.

A Martian Odyssey

Twilight

Helen O' Loy

The Roads must Roll

Microcosmic God

Nightfall

The Weapon Shop

Mimsy Where the Borogoves

Huddling Place

Arena

First Contact

That only a Mother

Scanners live in Vain

Mars is Heaven!

The Little Black Bag

Born of Man and Woman

Comming Attraction

The Quest for Saint Aquin

Surface Tension

The Nine Billion Names of God

It's a Good Life

The Cold Equations

Fondly Fahrenheit

The Country of the Kind

Flowers for Algernon

A Rose for Ecclesiastes

If you can find this book then buy it. It's awsome. Science Fiction only truly shined back in the 30's and up through the 60's and some of the 70's. This collection encompasses for the first time most of those great short-fiction works.

Enjoy!

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame is a classic, one-volume library of works from the so called Golden Age of Science Fiction. These stories are from the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's, when science fiction was booming. This volume contains the works of some of the biggest and most well known authors in the field, such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and James Blish, among many others.
Don't get this volume mixed up with the pulp science fiction thats out there. The stories within are among some of the most famous out there. Nightfall, Surface Tension and Flowers for Algernon are in here, some of the classic stories out there.
Each and every one of the twenty-six stories in this book are exciting, thoughtful, interesting and are at the edge of imagination. They cover everything from bioengineering, first contact, mutations, god, robots, Mars and space travel, all the things that come with science fiction.
One of the most interesting things about these stories is that they were written seventy, sixty, fifty or fourty years ago, yet the ideas and writing are just as vivid as they would be written today. Some of the things that are being written about had not been invented or conceived by science, but are now the forefronts of science now. Bioengineering and robotics are the big ones. First contact and space travel still remain in science fiction for the most part, but who knows what will happen, expecially if some of those ideas were correct?
This is a must for any science fiction fan out there.

This is the basic collection of classical SF short stories. My copy is so tattered and worn out that I'm hoping to find a new one-- and this is my second copy. It was the text of our Science Fiction as English Lit class in college, and it's a book I've treasured ever since.