A review by willv
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 by James Blish, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, John W. Campbell Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, Daniel Keyes, Lester del Rey, C.M. Kornbluth, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. van Vogt, Lewis Padgett, Alfred Bester, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Anthony Boucher, Clifford D. Simak, Damon Knight, Cordwainer Smith, Murray Leinster, Robert A. Heinlein, Judith Merril, Fredric Brown, Richard Matheson, Jerome Bixby

5.0

An excellent collection of short stories; some better than others. My favourites were:

Scanners Live in Vain, by Cordwainer Smith
The Little Black Bag, by C. M. Kornbluth
Surface Tension, by James Blish
Mars is Heaven!, by Ray Bradbury
The Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke
Flowers for Algernon*, by Daniel Keyes
The Roads Must Roll, by Robert Heinlein
Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon
Nightfall*, by Isaac Asimov
The Weapon Shop, by A. E. van Vogt
Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Lewis Padgett
Arena, by Fredric Brown
First Contact, by Murray Leinster
Born of Man and Woman, by Richard Matheson
It's a Good Life**, by Jerome Bixby

The ones I liked the least were

The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin
The Quest for Saint Aquin, by Anthony Boucher
Coming Attraction, by Fritz Leiber
A Rose for Ecclesiastes, by Roger Zelazny

And the several others were generally good, but didn't stick to my mind as much.

* I had read this before this collection
** the original story that led to the famous Twilight Zone episode, as well as the Treehouse of Horror in which Bart was the special kid