Publication: The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction

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Publication: The Fifth Omni Book of Science FictionPublication Record # 192481
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Date: 1987-04-00
ISBN: 0-8217-2050-3 [978-0-8217-2050-9]
Publisher: Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.
Price:
$3.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 381
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction by Tim White (variant of Between Planets 1977)
Notes:
- "First printing: April 1987"; no number line
- The artist is not credited, no visible signature
- Cover artist credited from the original publication
- $5.50 in Canada
- "Triceratops" by Kono Tensei translated by David Lewis
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 15536468
- Reginald-3: 21170

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Anthology Title: The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction • [Omni Books of Science Fiction • 5] • anthology by Ellen Datlow

Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • Introduction (The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Ellen Datlow
13 • Multiples • (1983) • short story by Robert Silverberg
41 • Man-Mountain Gentian • (1983) • short story by Howard Waldrop
67 • Returning Home • (1982) • short story by Ian Watson
85 • Triceratops • (1982) • short story by
河野典生^?こうのてんせい
Tensei Kono
Tensei Kōno
(trans. of
トリケラトプス^?Torikeratopusu
1974) [as by Kono Tensei]
103 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • short story by William Gibson
121 • Adagio • (1984) • novelette by Barry B. Longyear
161 • Track of a Legend • (1983) • short story by Cynthia Felice
179 • Prime Time • (1980) • short story by Norman Spinrad
201 • Edges • (1983) • short story by Gregg Keizer
227 • The Songbirds of Pain • (1984) • short story by Garry Kilworth
245 • The Changed Man and the King of Words • (1982) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
293 • 400 Boys • (1983) • short story by Marc Laidlaw
315 • Seventh Sense • (1983) • short story by Robert Haisty
331 • Lunatic Bridge • novelette by Pat Cadigan

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