The Hugo Winners, Vol. 3

What is the very best short science fiction — according to science fiction fans themselves? The short stories and short novels collected here hold the most recent prizes. They are the Hugo Winners.

Among the brightest stars in the crown of science fiction are the winners of the coveted Hugo Awards. The Hugo's are presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention, where the competition is fierce but where the voting is done by members of the convention, all of them highly knowledgeable about what has been written in the field, and outstanding judges of what makes really good science fiction reading.

In this volume are the Hugo prizewinners for 1971 through 1975, once again presented, in his inimitable fashion, by Isaac Asimov, science fiction master and himself winner of two Hugo's in earlier years. Needless to say, Asimov's introductions to each story are as engaging and fresh as ever.

A must for every collector of science fiction.

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Ship of shadows / by Fritz Leiber --
Ill met in Lankhmar / by Fritz Leiber --
Slow Sculpture / by Theodore Sturgeon --
The Queen of Air and Darkness / by Poul Anderson --
Inconstant moon / by Larry Niven --
The word for world is forest / by Ursula K. Le Guin --
Goat song / by Poul Anderson --
The meeting / by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth --
Eurama's dam / by R. A. Lafferty --
The girl who was plugged in / by James Tiptree, Jr. --
The Deathbird / by Harlan Ellison --
The ones who walk away from Omelas / by Ursula K. Le Guin --
A song for Lya / by George R. R. Martin --
Adrift just off the islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 [degrees] 54' N, 77 [degrees] 00' 13" W / by Harlan Ellison --
The Hole Man / by Larry Niven --