The Grand Tour

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas 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 stories 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.

Eleven more classic novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction. Companion to Volume IIA.

Introduction · Ben Bova
The Martian Way · Isaac Asimov · na Galaxy Nov ’52
Earthman, Come Home [Okie] · James Blish · nv Astounding Nov ’53
Rogue Moon · Algis Budrys · na F&SF Dec ’60
The Specter General · Theodore R. Cogswell · na Astounding Jun ’52
The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review Nov ’09
The Midas Plague · Frederik Pohl · na Galaxy Apr ’54
The Witches of Karres · James H. Schmitz · nv Astounding Dec ’49
E for Effort · T. L. Sherred · nv Astounding May ’47
In Hiding · Wilmar H. Shiras · nv Astounding Nov ’48
The Big Front Yard · Clifford D. Simak · na Astounding Oct ’58
The Moon Moth · Jack Vance · na Galaxy Aug ’61

Ben Bova's extraordinary Moonbase Saga continues with a breathtaking near-future adventure rich in character and incident. Seven years after the indomitable Doug Stavenger has realized his cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface, Moonbase is a thriving community, a marvel of scientific achievement created and supported by nanotechnology: virus-sized machines that can build, cure, and destroy. But nanotechnology has been declared illegal by the home planet's leaders, and a powerful despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger's peaceful city--or obliterate it, if necessary. The people of Moonbase, a colony with no arms or military, must now defend themselves from earthborn aggression with the only weapon at their disposal: the astonishing technology that sustains their endangered home.

John O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.

There is a dream called Moonbase, nurtured by ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger and his wife, Joanna Masterson Stavenger, head of the powerful Masterson Corporation.

There is a future of astonishing possibilities and vital technological development waiting on a lifeless world of astonishing contrasts, where sub-frigid darkness abuts the blood-boiling light -- a future threatened by greed and jealousy, insanity and murder.

The Moon and its mysteries have captivated the Stavenger family, and it will continue to exert its pull upon subsequent generations. For all those who experience its magnificent desolation are haunted by it eternally. Some will be doomed by its pitiless aversion to human life.

And some can never leave.

Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas 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 stories 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: Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, and Jack Vance.

Contents:

Introduction · Ben Bova · in
· Call Me Joe · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Apr ’57
· Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] · John W. Campbell, Jr. · na Astounding Aug ’38
· Nerves · Lester del Rey · na Astounding Sep ’42
· Universe [Hugh Hoyland] · Robert A. Heinlein · na Astounding May ’41
· The Marching Morons · C. M. Kornbluth · nv Galaxy Apr ’51
· Vintage Season [as by Lawrence O’Donnell] · Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore · na Astounding Sep ’46
· ...And Then There Were None · Eric Frank Russell · na Astounding Jun ’51
· The Ballad of Lost C’Mell · Cordwainer Smith · nv Galaxy Oct ’62
· Baby Is Three · Theodore Sturgeon · na Galaxy Oct ’52
· The Time Machine [Time Machine] · H. G. Wells · na The New Review Jan, 1895 (+4)
· With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] · Jack Williamson · nv Astounding Jul ’47