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• 11 • Introduction (The Fifth Galaxy Reader) • essay by H. L. Gold
• 19 • Inside John Barth • (1960) • novelette by William W. Stuart
• 46 • The Last Letter • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 60 • Perfect Answer • (1958) • short story by Joseph Wesley [as by L. J. Stecher, Jr.]
• 73 • Double Dare • (1956) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 90 • Pastoral Affair • (1959) • short story by Charles A. Stearns
• 103 • Black Charlie • (1954) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 120 • $1,000 a Plate • (1954) • short story by Jack McKenty
• 129 • Take Wooden Indians • (1959) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 158 • The Bitterest Pill • (1959) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 171 • This Side Up • (1954) • short story by Raymond E. Banks
• 191 • The Eel • (1958) • short story by Miriam Allen deFord
• 201 • A Feast of Demons • (1958) • novelette by William Morrison
• 225 • Nightmare with Zeppelins • (1958) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• 235 • We Never Mention Aunt Nora • (1958) • short story by Frederik Pohl [as by Paul Flehr]
• 247 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith