THE HUGO WINNERS
edited by Isaac Asimov
This collects nine of the winners of the SF awards, from 1939 to 1961, and, with Asimov's introduction to the volume and notes for the writers and their inclusions, is an easy-to-take entertainment. Clarke's The Star and Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon make another appearance here; there's Walter Miller's Darfsteller, Eric Russell's Allamagoosa. Murray Leinstar's Exploration Team, Avram Davidson's Or All the Seas With Oysters, Clifford Simak's The Big Front Yard, Robert Bloch's The Hell-bound Train and Poul Anderson's The Longest Voyager. Novelettes and short stories in a good combination.