The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame)

V. 1. 1929-1964. Edited By Robert Silverberg. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The Science Fiction Writers Of America. A Tom Doherty Associates Book. The book you now hold contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. Robert Heinlein in "The Roads Must Roll" describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. "Country of the Kind," by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. "Nightfall, " by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, imagines a planet where the sun sets only once every millennium and is a chilling study in mass psychology A collection of top science fiction novellas written between 1929 and 1946 traces the origins of the genre and includes such pieces as H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine" and John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "Who Goes There?," the latter of which inspired the movie, The Thing, and others by Theodore Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith, and Robert A. Heinlein. 12,500 first printing. v. 1. 1929-1964 : the greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America / edited by Robert Silverberg v. 2A. The greatest science fiction novellas of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America / edited by Ben Bova Presents a compilation of the finest science fiction stories by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Alfred Bester, James Blish, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, and Roger Zelazny