The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3 »

Frederik Pohl has won all the major awards in the field of science fiction, including three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, both for Best Novel; the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, also for Best Novel; he was accorded the accolade of Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's also won three Hugo awards as editor of the best magazine. He edited the groundbreaking Star Science Fiction series of original-story anthologies. He and his wife, educator and political activist Elizabeth Anne Hull, live in Palatine, Illinois.

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented, by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The Grand Master Award is given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.

Frederik Pohl, an eminent figure in science fiction, has been authorized by the SFWA to edit an anthology in three big volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. These are the seminal writers of the modern SF field, whose works are of dominant importance and influence. This series of collections is a permanent record of greatness in SF.

Volume Three, presenting the last five writers to receive the Grand Master award, features the fiction of Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. Van Vogt, Jack Vance.

Locus

On the basis of the...pieces...one can conclude that [some of the authors] were having a degree of sheer imaginative fun that may no longer be available to SF writers in today's market.

Introduction by Frederik Pohl

LESTER DEL REY
The Faithful
The Pipes of Pan
The Coppersmith
For I Am a Jealous People

FREDERIK POHL
Let the Ants Try
The Tunnel Under theWorld
Day Million
The Gold at the Starbow's End

DAMON KNIGHT
The Handler
Dio
Not With a Bang
I See You
Masks

A. E. VAN VOGT
Black Destroyer
Far Centaurus
Vault of the Beast
Dear Pen Pal

JACK VANCE
Sail 25
Ullwar's Retreat
The Miracle Workers