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The year's best S-F : 5th annual edition / edited by Judith Merril.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- S-F: the years greatest science fiction and fantasy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth annual edition.
- Other Title:
- 5th annual edition: the year's best S-F
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dell, 1961.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Judith Merril
- The Handler / Damon Knight
- The other wife / Jack Finney
- No fire burns / Avram Davidson
- No, no, not Rogov! / Cordwainer Smith
- Shoreline at sunset / Ray Bradbury
- The Dreamsman / Gordon R. Dickson
- Multum in Parvo / Jack Sharkey
- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes
- "What do you mean ... human?" / John W. Campbell, Jr.
- Sierra Sam / Ralph Dighton
- A death in the house / Clifford D. Simak
- Mariana / Fritz Leiber
- An Inquiry concerning the curvature of the Earth's surface and divers investigations of a metaphysical nature / Roger Price.
- Day at the beach / Carol Emshwiller
- Hot argument / Randall Garrett
- What the left hand was doing / Darrel T. Langart
- The Sound Sweep / J.G. Ballard
- Plenitude / Will Worthington
- The Man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon
- Make a prison / Lawrence Block
- What now, little man? / Mark Clifton
- Me / Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
- The year's S-F / Judith Merril.
- Notes:
- Dell F118
- Cover painting by Richard Powers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- OCLC:
- 37765949
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