The Year's Best S-F, 5th Annual Edition

It contains: 9 • The Handler • (1960) • short story by Damon Knight14 • The Other Wife • (1960) • short story by Jack Finney30 • No Fire Burns • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson48 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith67 • The Shoreline at Sunset • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury78 • The Dreamsman • (1959) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson87 • Multum in Parvo • (1959) • short story by Jack Sharkey91 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes123 • "What Do You Mean ... Human?" • [Editorial (Astounding)] • (1959) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.131 • Sierra Sam • (1960) • essay by Ralph Dighton134 • A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak155 • Mariana • (1960) • short story by Fritz Leiber161 • An Inquiry Concerning the Curvature of the Earth's Surface and Divers Investigations of a Metaphysical Nature • (1958) • short story by Roger Price (1918-1990)163 • Day at the Beach • (1959) • short story by Carol Emshwiller174 • Hot Argument • [Poor Willie] • (1960) • poem by Randall Garrett175 • What the Left Hand Was Doing • (1960) • novelette by Randall Garrett [as by Darrell T. Langart]204 • The Sound Sweep • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard (variant of The Sound-Sweep)245 • Plenitude • (1959) • short story by Will Mohler [as by Will Worthington]258 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon271 • Make a Prison • (1959) • short story by Lawrence Block275 • What Now, Little Man? • (1959) • novelette by Mark Clifton311 • Me • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck312 • The Year's S-F, Summary and Honorable Mentions • (1960) • essay by Judith Merril (variant of The Year's S-F, Summation and Honorable Mentions (The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F))