The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Volume One, 1929-1964
The short fiction voted best of the pre-Nebula era by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
In 1970 the Science Fiction Writers of America voted on the best short fiction published before the Nebula Awards began, and this volume collects the twenty-six stories that won. Edited by Robert Silverberg, it gathers Asimov’s Nightfall, Weinbaum’s A Martian Odyssey, Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon and others, and has served ever since as the genre’s canon of its own early work.
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Orson Scott Card
As a result, science fiction tales tend to be markedly longer to tell the same number of events. So in singling out shorter works for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, SFWA would have to ignore novellas – a length that thrives in sci-fi precisely because it allows room for world development. That’s why there’s a second volume of the Hall of Fame, divided into parts 2a and 2b in some editions.
Interview · October 2011
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