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INTRODUCTION T
his two-book set is the second volume of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and consists of stories of longer lengths than those published in the highly acclaimed Volume One.
These stories have been selected by the members of The Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), the organization of some four hundred professional science fiction writers. Thus, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame is the definitive anthology in this field, the collective choice of the practitioners of the science fiction art themselves.
Founded in 1965, each year since 1966 SFWA has given achievement awards for the best stories of the year. The awards are called Nebulas, and are chosen on the basis of a vote by SFWA’s members. The purpose of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthologies is to bestow a similar recognition on stories that were published prior to 1966, and thus never had a chance to earn a Nebula.
Like the annual Nebula awards themselves, election to the Hall of Fame anthology is based on a poll of SFWA’s members. Volume One was restricted to short stories; Volume Two is devoted to novelettes and novellas.
The voting procedure began with recommendations. For nearly a full year, SFWA members sent in suggestions for stories that were worthy of inclusion in the Hall of Fame. As editor, I quickly began to see that it was going to be a heartbreaking job to rule out any of these fine tales. Almost every title recommended brought back a powerful memory of the first time I had read that particular piece. And the authors! H. G. Wells, John W. Campbell, Jr., Robert Heinlein, Cyril Kornbluth…how could any of them be ruled out?
A ballot was finally prepared, consisting of seventy-six recommended stories. The SFWA members were asked to vote for ten stories out of the seventy-six. Since many authors had more than one story on the ballot, and we didn’t want any individual author to be represented more than once in the anthology, the members were further asked to vote for only one story per author.
Many of the ballots came back with screams of despair and frustration scribbled over them. “How can I pick only ten of ’em?” was the typical cry. Most of the members wanted most of the recommended stories to go into the final anthology.
When the votes were counted, the top ten stories were:
WHO GOES THERE?by John W. Campbell, Jr.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZby Walter M. Miller, Jr.
WITH FOLDED HANDS by Jack Williamson
THE TIME MACHINEby H. G. Wells
BABY, is THREEby Theodore Sturgeon
VINTAGE SEASONby Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
THE MARCHING MORONSby C. M. Kornbluth
UNIVERSEby Robert A. Heinlein
BY HIS BOOTSTRAPSby Robert A. Heinlein
NERVESby Lester del Rey
