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The authorative companion and follow-up to the acclaimed Science Fiction Hall of Fame  acknowledges the importance of fantasy to modern literature, and enshrine the 30 favorite short stories of all time.Chosen by popular ballot among the 1000 professionals who make their livings creating America's bestselling dreams, these are the undisputed classics: The unforgettable stories that influenced and shaped the imagination at work in the field today. Here are the stories that shaped the shapers. Here are the stories that will live forever. Trouble with water / H.L. Gold -- Nothing in the rules / L. Sprague de Camp -- Fruit of knowledge / C.L. Moore -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- Compleat werewolf / Anthony Boucher -- Small assassin / Ray Bradbury -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Our fair city / Robert A. Heinlein -- There shall be no darkness / James Blish -- Loom of darkness / Jack Vance -- Man who sold rope to the gnoles / Margaret St. Clair -- Silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon -- Golem / Avram Davidson -- Operation afreet / Poul Anderson -- That hell-bound train / Robert Bloch -- Bazaar of the bizarre / Fritz Leiber -- Come lady death / Peter S. Beagle -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Narrow valley / R.A. Lafferty -- Faith of our fathers / Philip K. Dick -- Ghost of a Model T / Clifford D. Simak -- Demoness / Tanith Lee -- Jeffty is five / Harlan Ellison -- Detective of dreams / Gene Wolfe -- Unicorn variations / Roger Zelazny -- Basileus / Robert Silverberg -- Jaguar Hunter / Lucius Shepard -- Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson -- Tower of Babylon / Ted Chiang.
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Mark Gagnon
reviewed The fantasy hall of fame on December 18, 2011
The fantasy hall of fame
This anthology really deserves 3.5 stars but i don't want to round up in this case.
it's a huge collection, which i really liked, and some of the authors i'd never heard of before really surprised me and i loved their work. also to my surprise i've actually read quite a few of the stories before, unbeknownst to me, since they weren't by the authors names who i recognized straight off.
i don't think the editors did a good job at all. that's my problem. you have such a huge repertoire to choose from, even back when the book was published, and these are the stories you choose from authors such as pkd and ellison and tanith lee to throw in here? REALLY? le guin i can understand, as the more i read her work the less i like anything she writes. but i also feel like many of the stories didn't even belong, as they were neither sci-fi or fantasy but bizarre instead. and even when this book was published i can think of other authors of the genres who won the same awards who would have made far better replacements for some of those published.
i felt it odd that the editors felt like reaching so far back into the repertoires of these authors and their works, avoiding at all costs anything remotely modern even if it fit the criteria better and was better written. just because it's old doesn't mean it's good. ground-breaking perhaps, but not necessarily better.
but i did like so many of the stories, so i can't knock the whole book. i have a new host of authors to look to for other reading material, which is why i even bother with short story collections anyway.
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