The Fifth Galaxy Reader
Edited by H.L. Gold
Cover artist unknown
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub year: 1963
Cover price: 35¢
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Edited by H.L. Gold
Cover artist unknown
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub year: 1963
Cover price: 35¢
Search for a copy of this book
Fifteen superlative stories from the pages of the most widely read science fiction magazine in the world
The Stories in this Book
Inside John Barth
William W. Stuart
The Last Letter
Fritz Leiber
Perfect Answer
L.J. Stecher, Jr.
Double Dare
Robert Silverberg
Pastoral Affair
Charles A. Stearns
Black Charlie
Gordon R. Dickson
$1,000 a Plate
Jack McKenty
Take Wooden Indians
Avram Davidson
The Bitterest Pill
Frederik Pohl
This Side Up
Raymond E. Banks
The Eel
Miriam Allen DeFord
A Feast of Demons
William Morrison
Nightmare with Zeppelins
Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
We Never Mention Aunt Nora
Paul Flehr
When the People Fell
Cordwainer Smith
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Here are three short novels plus twelve stories, each by an acknowledged master of science fiction. Call them fanciful, if you will, but read them — for they are superb stories, artfully told, vastly entertaining. Each is written about what might be or might have been rather than what, at this moment, actually is.
For the birds, you say? Just couldn't be? Well, maybe, but are you sure? What odds would you have wanted, less than a decade ago, on Titov or John Glenn? Or even on an orbiting monkey?
Science fiction has been called, aptly, creative speculation of what has as yet to be proven true. It had attracted some of the most talented and vital authors writing today.
The editor of this collection, H.L. Gold, is also editor of the leading science fiction magazine Galaxy.