But in the past, I always found it hard to decide what "classic" science fiction to pick up and read, because there's just so much. All in all, there are twenty-six stories present, all superb. These various methods are stated in detail within the Introduction. The editor of Volume One, Robert Silverberg, included the fifteen stories with the highest votes, and used various methods to determine the rest that would be included. The only restrictions were only one story per author, and historical perspective had to be kept in mind. SFWA members then chose ten from this list. Eventually, 132 stories by seventy-six writers were on the final ballot. The stories for the collection were chosen by SFWA members' votes. The main purpose of Volume One is to recognize the best stories that pretty much would have won Nebula Awards had they been around at the time. The SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) was founded in 1965 "to inform science fiction writers on matters of professional interest, to promote their professional welfare, and to help them deal effectively with publishers, agents, editors, and anthologists." They also started handing out Nebula Awards around this time. It would take far too long to go through all of these stories and explain why they are all fantastic reads. The stories are presented in chronological order, starting with A Martian Odyssey (1934) and ending with A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963). So I finished this a while ago, and I wanted to make a post about it, but the holidays keep me pretty busy. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time.
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