The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science…

by Ben Bova

Series: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2A)

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Title	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America
Author	Ben Bova
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Tags	sf, hall of fame, anthology, ex libris John P. Dolan
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Your review	After really enjoying Volume One of this series, I was all set to enjoy Volume Two, which was divided into two halves because it would have been outrageously big. As it is, Volume Two A is already pretty big. I don't know what it was, though, but Volume Two A didn't impress me anywhere near as much as Volume One, which was filled with stories I thought were excellent-- and rightly so, given that they were supposed to be the definitively best short stories published prior to 1964. But the best novellas of the same time period were pretty average for the most part. There were some standouts, however: I really liked Universe by Robert A. Heinlein even though I thought it felt like half a story. (Wikipedia has informed me that it is half a story; Heinlein connected it with another novella later on to make a full novel.) Cyril M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons was also good fun. My favorite of the book was probably Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, a surprisingly affecting story about tourists from the distant future and their effect on one man.
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Publication	Doubleday (1973), Hardcover
Publication date	1973
ISBN	/
LC classification 1	PS648.S3
Dewey 1	813.087608 Bova
Subjects	Science fiction, American Science fiction, English
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language
Date acquired	2007-03-01
Date started
Date finished	2008-07-01
Summary 0	science fiction hall of fame volume two a by Clarence P. Socwell (1973)
Comments	ex libris John P. Dolan
BCID	XXX-
Number of copies	1
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Data source	amazon.com

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