For Danlo's and everyones information. The anthology for my community college class might be what you had in mind. It is The science fiction hall of fame; volume one 1929 - 1964 editor Robert Silverberg. Selections for the anthology were made based on a poll of SFWA
www.sfwa.org members.
Table of contents:
A martian odyssey by Stanely Weinbaum 1934
Twilight by John Campbell 1934
Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey 1938
The roads must roll by Robert Heinlein 1940
Microcosmic god by Theodore Sturgeon 1941
Nightfall by Issac Asimov 1941
The weapon shop by A.E. van Vogt 1942
Mimsy were the borogoves by Lewis Padgett 1943
Huddling Place by Clifford Simak 1944
Arena by Frederic Brown 1944
First contact by Murray Leinster 1945
That only a mother by Judith Merril 1948
Scanners live in vain by Cordwainer Smith 1948
Mars is Heaven by Ray Bradbury 1948
The little black bag by C.M. Kornbluth 1950
Born of man and woman by Richard Matheson 1950
Coming attraction by Fritz Leiber 1950
The quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher 1951
Surface tension by James Blish 1952
The nine billion names of god by Arthur Clarke 1953
It's a good life by Jerome Bixby 1953
The cold equations by Tom Godwin 1954
Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester 1954
The country of the kind by Damon Knight 1955
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 1959
A rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazney 1963
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