THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME
Volume One, 1929-1964
The Greatest Science Fiction Stones of All Time
Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of
America
Edited by Robert Silverberg
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THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME, VOLUME ONE, 1929-1964
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A Martian Odyssey, by Stanley G. Weinbaum, copyright © 1934 by Continental Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Forrest J. Ackerman on behalf of the author's estate.
Twilight, by John W. Campbell, copyright © 1934 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Helen O'Loy, by Lester del Rey, copyright © 1938 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
The Roads Must Roll, by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright © 1940 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1967 by Robert A. Heinlein. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Lurton Blassingame.
Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon, copyright © 1941 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P.
Mills.
Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov, copyright © 1941 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Copyright renewed 1968 by Isaac Asimov. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Weapon Shop, by A. E. van Vogt, copyright © 1942 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agent, Forrest J.
Ackerman.
Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Lewis Padgett, copyright © 1943 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Harold Matson Company, Inc.
Huddling Place, by Clifford D. Simak, copyright © 1944 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P.
Mills.
Arena, by Fredric Brown, copyright © 1944 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
First Contact, by Murray Leinster, copyright © 1945 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
That Only a Mother, by Judith Merril, copyright © 1948 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Scanners Live in Vain, by Cordwainer Smith, copyright © 1948 by Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Mars Is Heaven!, by Ray Bradbury, copyright © 1948 by Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Harold Matson Company, Inc.
The Little Black Bag, by C. M. Kornbluth, copyright © 1950 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Robert P. Mills on behalf of the author's estate.
Born of Man and Woman, by Richard Matheson, copyright © 1950 by Fantasy House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Harold Matson Company, Inc.
Coming Attraction, by Fritz Leiber, copyright © 1950 by World Editions, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P. Mills.
The Quest for Saint Aquin, by Anthony Boucher, copyright © 1951 by Henry Holt & Co. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc.
Surface Tension, by James Blish, copyright © 1952 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P. Mills.
The Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke, copyright © 1953 by Ballantine Books, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
It's a Good Life, by Jerome Bixby, copyright © 1953 by Ballantine Books, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author's agent, Forrest J. Ackerman.
The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin, copyright © 1954 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Fondly Fahrenheit, by Alfred Bester, copyright © 1954 by Fantasy House, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert p. Mills.
The Country of the Kind, by Damon Knight, copyright © 1955 by Fantasy House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P. Mills.
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, copyright © 1959 by Mercury Press, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P. Mills.
A Rose for Ecclesiastes, by Roger Zelazny, copyright © 1963 by Mercury Press, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of Ace Books, Inc.
Introduction: Robert Silverberg
A MARTIAN ODYSSEY,
Stanley G. Weinbaum
TWILIGHT,
John W. Campbell
HELEN O'LOY,
Lester del Rey
THE ROADS MUST ROLL,
Robert A. Heinlein
MICROCOSMIC GOD,
Theodore Sturgeon
NIGHTFALL, Isaac
Asimov
THE WEAPON SHOP,
A. E. van Vogt
MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES,
