The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, honored the best of science fiction's early short stories. This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas written between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor novellas that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert Heinlein, C M Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C L Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H G Wells, and Jack Williamson.