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• ix • Introduction (The Fifth Galaxy Reader) • (1961) • essay by H. L. Gold
• 1 • Inside John Barth • (1960) • novelette by William W. Stuart
• 28 • The Last Letter • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 42 • Perfect Answer • (1958) • short story by Joseph Wesley [as by L. J. Stecher, Jr.]
• 55 • Double Dare • (1956) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 72 • Pastoral Affair • (1959) • short story by Charles A. Stearns
• 85 • Black Charlie • (1954) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 102 • $1,000 a Plate • (1954) • short story by Jack McKenty
• 111 • Take Wooden Indians • (1959) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 140 • The Bitterest Pill • (1959) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 153 • This Side Up • (1954) • short story by Raymond E. Banks
• 172 • The Eel • (1958) • short story by Miriam Allen deFord
• 182 • A Feast of Demons • (1958) • novelette by William Morrison
• 206 • Nightmare with Zeppelins • (1958) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• 216 • We Never Mention Aunt Nora • (1958) • short story by Frederik Pohl [as by Paul Flehr]
• 228 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith