A review by bent
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IIB by Ben Bova

Did not finish book.

I only got to the third story in this collection before I gave up on it. The first was a very pedestrian Asimov story, the second was enjoyable, the third, "Rogue Moon," was dreadful. The dialogue and characters were unbelievably hackneyed and cliched. I tried to read it and finally gave it up as a bad job. There was a fourth story in the book, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," which I had read fairly recently. It was a decent story, but not enough to make me think that there was any hidden gold in this collection. Very disappointing.