The Fifth Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction

Contents

Introduction by H. L. Gold
1. Inside John Barth (1960) by William W. Stuart
2. The Last Letter (1958) by Fritz Leiber
3. Perfect Answer (1958) by Joseph Wesley
4. Double Dare (1956) by Robert Silverberg
5. Pastoral Affair (1959) by Charles A. Stearns
6. Black Charlie (1954) by Gordon R. Dickson
7. $1,000 a Plate (1954) by Jack McKenty
8. Take Wooden Indians (1959) novelette by Avram Davidson
9. The Bitterest Pill (1959) by Frederik Pohl
10. This Side Up (1954) by Raymond E. Banks
11. The Eel (1958) by Miriam Allen deFord
12. A Feast of Demons (1958) novelette by William Morrison
13. Nightmare with Zeppelins (1958) by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
14. We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958) by Frederik Pohl
15. When the People Fell [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1959) by Cordwainer Smith