A friend of mine recently reviewed thishttp://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...& I realized I didn't have it on my bookshelf here & should. I have an old hardback from the library from back when I was a teen & I've read through all of these stories numerous times over the years both here & in other anthologies. Almost all of the stories are incredibly good. I won't review them all, but a few deserve mentioning.Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" is probably the most dated & least favorite of mine.

I only read a few short stories but I strongly recommend the one Nightfall on page 113!

SF CONNOISSEURS AND GLUTTONS…here is that rare, perfect blend of gourmet quality with the "all you can eat" quantity of a Vegas buffet. Stuffed within these pages is a 26-course PROSE FEAST serving up the crème de la crèmeiest of SF short stories cooked up between 1929 and 1964. On the litgasm scale, this ensemble clearly reaches multiple territory in the quality department and yet is also substantial enough for you to gorge on for days. All of the stories were selected by the Science Fiction Wr...

Old school science fiction! ♥️

Overall, this is an amazing anthology, though some of the stories are definitely better than others:ESSENTIAL:1. Microcosmic God - Theodore Sturgeon2. Arena - Fredric Brown3. First Contact - Murray Leinster4. Surface Tension - James Blish5. Twilight - John W. Campbell6. Nightfall - Isaac AsimovRECOMMENDED:7. The Little Black Bag - C.M. Kornbluth8. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes9. It's a GOOD Life - Jerome Bixby10. The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin11. The Quest for Saint Aquin - Anthony Bouche...

I don't know why I never thought of this before, but it occurred to me today that nearly all well-known science-fiction novels should be listed on Google Scholar. And indeed they are! It's kind of interesting to see which ones have been cited most. After an hour or so of clicking, here's a preliminary top list:George Orwell, 1984: 3925Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: 3472Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1349Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five: 853Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged: 787H....

Twenty six influential stories from the early days of science-fiction are collected in this book. For years, friends of the genre would tell me that this is the one collection I had to find and read. I haunted used book stores for it--and the other volumes in the set. Eventually I broke down and bought the newly published edition, only then to find a full set at my local used book store. So, yes I have two copies now. One to keep and one to loan out. Simply put, this is a great collection of som...

A Martian Odyssey (1934) by Stanley G. Weinbaum 5/5Twilight (1934) by John W. Campbell, Jr. 5/5Helen O'Loy (1938) by Lester del Rey 3/5The Roads Must Roll (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein 5/5Microcosmic God (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon 5/5Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov 5/5The Weapon Shop (1942) by A.E. van Vogt 5/5Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore 5/5Huddling Place (1944) by Clifford D. Simak 4/5Arena (1944) by Fredric Brown 5/5First Contact (1945) by Murray Leinster 4...

Most of these stories do belong in the hall of fame. A couple were less than at that level. However we all have different opinions and overall the book was a great anthology of science fiction stories from the past.When you read it you will recognize some plots that continue to appear in current stories, and probably will continue into the future.Ratings:- ⭐⭐⭐⭐

If you've read much sf at all when you pick up a collection like this you'll already have read about half, but that's okay.What wasn't okay was the dawning realisation ... hmmm, isn't it odd that the ones I'm reading now are all the really frankly ridiculous ones and all the stories I read way back when were the great mindblowing ones.This made me think that old sf maybe doesn't travel through time well, and like old music, it now has surface noise and poor attitudes. Take "The Weapon Shop" by A...

Finally got a few uninterrupted moments, so let's see if I can write something that makes sense here. Yes, this is an old book, and some of these short stories show their age, mostly because of what their authors assume culturally. I quickly noticed that in almost every tale, men dominated. Female characters were generally depicted as "the little woman," if they were present at all. Even the wonderful Helen O'Loy was at heart a classic stay-at-home-housewife, whose sole desire was to make her ma...

Don’t ask me to quote a thing from this or name a single story since I read it in the dark ages and just marked it as “liked” then in the pre-internet age. I kept a paper list in a wire wound notebook of every book I ever read going back to the late sixties, eons before the perfect place like goodreads existed, but I merely marked each one as liked or disliked (I’m not a detail guy generally). However I do recall not liking it as much as Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison which was then,...

This compact anthology of 'golden age scifi' is an essential compilation. It contains a very high percentage of such stories that have defined science fiction. As a result, it’s often stated that if you need to keep only one scifi anthology (although why you might be so tight-fisted, is never explained), this one ought to suffice. However, I believe that the main strength of this collection is in showcasing the strengths as well as weaknesses of fiction written in those decades. These stories ar...

$2.99 Kindle sale, Sept. 10, 2019. An amazing collection of classic SF tales! Of all the very many science fiction books I swiped from my dad when I was a teen, this anthology was one of the best: 26 classic SF short stories, first published between 1929 and 1964, and written by many of the great SF authors of that age: Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Sturgeon, Zelazny, and so on. In about 1969, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) group nominated 132 stories from the pre-Nebula award era and...

Sci-fi Hall of Fame Volume 1 1929-1964Collection of the best sci-fi stories prior to 1964. Many of the stories are quite famous. There are twenty-six stories in all.Here are my favorite five star reads.1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes. Arguably the greatest sci-fi short story of all time.2. A Rose for Ecclesiastes - Roger Zelazny. Earthling man who becomes a famous poet is betrayed by a Martian dancer so that he can fulfill their Martian prophesy.3. Microcosmic God - Theodore Sturgeon. Kid...

Great anthology series I read for a SF class in college.

These stories were extraordinary for three reasons. 1) They were like listening to old time radio shows from the past only better since the narrative was spoken, 2) Each story gave an incredible peek into the time period they were written in. Pay attention to the time the story was written in order to get the full impact of the story. 3) The stories all have a meaning within themselves. The truths they reach are autonomous, they exist for their own being, and they help one understand one’s own e...

This collection consists of the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time (through 1964) as voted on by the Science Fiction Writers of America, with some limitations and adjustments (e.g., one book per author). Since this is a collection of stories by different authors, there's no point providing a general review, so, since I'm in a self-indulgent mood, I'll review each individual story.Stanley G. Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey: Per all accounts, this was one of the most influential sci-fi...

(Revised, Aug. 5, 2010Soon after the creation of the Nebula Award in 1965 by the Science Fiction Writers of America, that organization decided to create the "Science Fiction Hall of Fame," a multi-volume anthology to include works published before 1965, which were selected by a poll of the membership as deserving of Nebula Award-class recognition. This first volume contains the short stories chosen (two subsequent volumes recognize the selected novellas). Again, this is a collection I've had on