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The Year's Best S-F 5th Annual Edition (Dell F118) (5th Annual Edition)

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All the best from the year 1959 (although a few from both '58 and '60 seem to have snuck in).

CONTENTS:

The Handler [Damon Knight - Rogue]
The Other Wife [Jack Finney - Saturday Evening Post]
No Fire Burns [Avram Davidson - Playboy]
No, No, Not Rogov! [Cordwainer Smith - IF]
The Shoreline at Sunset [Ray Bradbury - from *Medicine For Melancholy*]
The Dreamsman [Gordon R. Dickson - Star SF #6]
Multum in Parvo [Jack Sharkey - Gent]
Flowers For Algernon [Daniel Keyes - F&SF]
"What Do You Mean . . . Human?" [John W. Campbell Jr. - Astounding]
Sierra Sam [Ralph Dighton - N.Y. Times]
A Death in the House [Clifford D. Simak - Galaxy]
Mariana [Fritz Leiber - Fantastic]
An Inquiry Concerning the Curvature
Of the Earth's Surface and
Divers Investigations of a
Metaphysical Nature [Roger Price - Monocle]
Day At the Beach [Carol Emshwiller - F&SF]
Hot Argument [Randall Garrett - F&SF]
What the Left Hand was Doing [Randall Garrett
(as Darrel T. Langart) - Analog]
The Sound Sweep [J. G. Ballard - Science Fantasy]
Plentitude [Will Worthington - F&SF]
The Man Who Lost the Sea [Theodore Sturgeon - F&SF]
Make a Prison [Lawrence Block - Original SF] Stories
What Now, Little Man? [Mark Clifton - F&SF]
Me [Hilbert Schenk Jr. - F&SF]
Summary and Honorable Mentions [Judith Merril]