The Fantasy Hall of Fame - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877955212 ISBN 13: 9780877955214

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co, 1983

Synopsis

Contains fantasy works selected by members of the World Fantasy Convention, including stories by such writers as Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Lieber, and Robert E. Howard

About this title

Review:

When the Science Fiction Writers of America added the word fantasy to their name in 1992 (becoming the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), the SFWA membership thought it would be a good idea to create a defining collection of stories from their newly adopted genre. Accordingly, SFWA members nominated and voted for stories up to 17,500 words in length that were published between 1939 and 1990, eventually ending up with the top 15 stories and 15 runners-up. Those stories were collected in this book, a companion to SFWA's 1967 collection The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Editor Robert Silverberg calls the Fantasy Hall of Fame "a definitive one-volume library of the modern fantasy short story," and as usual he's correct. Although you might not agree with all the choices (the most popular story turned out to be "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson), you'll find that every piece here is a true gem, from Anthony Boucher's Compleat Werewolf to Roger Zelazny's Unicorn Variations. --Craig E. Engler

About the Author:

Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0877955212
• ISBN 13: 9780877955214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 431
• Editor: Silverberg Robert, Greenberg Martin Harry