The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 pdf

Robert Silverberg ha sido un escritor profesional desde 1955, ampliamente conocido por sus historias de ciencia ficción y fantasía. Ha ganado muchas veces los premios Hugo y Nebula, fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama de la Ciencia Ficción en 1999 y en 2004 fue designado Gran Maestro por los Escritores de Ciencia Ficción de Estados Unidos. Sus libros y cuentos han sido traducidos a cuarenta idiomas. Entre sus títulos más conocidos se encuentran NIGHTWINGS, DYING INSIDE, THE BOOK OF SKULLS, y los tres volúmenes del Majipoor Cycle: LORD VALENTINE'S CASTLE, MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES, VALENTINE PONTIFEX. Sus cuentos recopilados, que abarcan casi sesenta años de trabajo, han sido publicados en nueve volúmenes por Subterranean Press. Su libro más reciente es TALES OF MAJIPOOR (2013), una nueva colección de historias ambientadas en el mundo gigante que se hizo famoso en LORD VALENTINE'S CASTLE.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 pdf por Robert Silverberg

If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and authors in the field. The contributors are a Who's Who of classic SF, with every Golden Age giant included: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, and Roger Zelazny. Other contributors are less well known outside the core SF readership. Three of the contributors are famous for one story--but what stories!--Tom Godwin's pivotal hard-SF tale, "The Cold Equations"; Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life" (made only more infamous by the chilling Twilight Zone adaptation); and Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon" (brought to mainstream fame by the movie adaptation, Charly).
The collection has some minor but frustrating flaws. There are no contributor biographies, which is bad enough when the author is a giant; but it's especially sad for contributors who have become unjustly obscure. Each story's original publication date is in small print at the bottom of the first page. And neither this fine print nor the copyright page identifies the magazines in which the stories first appeared.
Prefaced by editor Robert Silverberg's introduction, which describes SFWA and details the selection process, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964 is a wonderful book for the budding SF fan. Experienced SF readers should compare the table of contents to their library before making a purchase decision. Fans who contemplate giving this book to non-SF readers should bear in mind that, while several of the collected stories can measure up to classic mainstream literary stories, the less literarily-acceptable stories are weighted toward the front of the collection; adult mainstream-literature fans may not get very far into The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. --Cynthia Ward