nIn a deluxe two-volume collectors edition boxed set, eight mind-bending novels from science fictions most transformative decade, including the landmark classic Flowers for Algernon nThe tumultuous 1960s was a watershed decade for American science fiction. As the nation raced to the moon, acknowledged masters from the genres golden age reached the height of their powers. As it confronted calls for civil rights and countercultural revolution, a new wave of brilliant young voices emerged, upending the genres pulp conventions with newfound literary sophistication; female, queer, and nonwhite authors broke into the ranks of SF writers, introducing provocative new protagonists and themes. Here, in a deluxe, two-volume collectors set, editor Gary K. Wolfe gathers eight wildly inventive novels, the decades best: Daniel Keyes beloved Flowers for Algernon and Poul Andersons madcap The High Crusade; Clifford D. Simaks Hugo Award-winning Way Station; Roger Zelaznys post-apocalyptic . . . And Call Me Conrad (previously published as This Immortal); Joanna Russ Picnic on Paradise, a pioneering work of feminist SF, and Samuel R. Delanys proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova; R.A. Laffertys quirky, neglected, utterly original Past Master; and Jack Vances haunting Emphyrio.n