The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume I edited by Robert Silverberg

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume I is a collection of short stories from the 1940's to the 1960's of chosen by the science fiction writers of America in the 70s. I really enjoy reading old sci-fi as it's so interesting to see the idea of the future from people in the past, and this one had some great stories. There were 30 so I'm not going to mention all of them just a few of my favourites, there was a really good story by Alfred Bester about a psychotic murderous android which made me want to go back and re-read all the books I have by him as I remember nothing about the plots except that I really liked them. There was a story by Tom Godwin, an author I'd not heard of, about a teenage girl who had to die because she was a stowaway on a ship, it made me cry. Jerome Bixby's It's a Good Life about a telepathic mutant child was perfectly creepy. But my favourite was Roger Zelany's A Rose for Ecclesiastes which contained Martians, translating ancient languages and religion, everything really. There were a couple kinda lame stories, it included Flowers for Algernon which as I am not in High School I refused to re-read. And then there were a couple very culturally odd stories, The Weapon Shop by A.E. Van Vogt which seemed to have a perfect underworld of gun lobby against a seemingly benevolent Empress, and the very strange Scanners Live in Vain which was fascinatingly anachronistic and can't be explained. Almost 700 pages of really good old fashioned futuristic stories and quite a pleasant diversion.