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• 8 • Introduction (The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1960) • essay by Judith Merril
• 9 • The Handler • (1960) • short story by Damon Knight
• 14 • The Other Wife • (1960) • short story by Jack Finney
• 30 • No Fire Burns • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 48 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 67 • The Shoreline at Sunset • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 78 • The Dreamsman • (1959) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 87 • Multum in Parvo • (1959) • short story by Jack Sharkey
• 91 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 123 • "What Do You Mean ... Human?" • [Editorial (Astounding)] • (1959) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 131 • Sierra Sam • (1960) • essay by Ralph Dighton
• 134 • A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 155 • Mariana • (1960) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 161 • An Inquiry Concerning the Curvature of the Earth's Surface and Divers Investigations of a Metaphysical Nature • (1958) • short story by Roger Price (1918-1990)
• 163 • Day at the Beach • (1959) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 174 • Hot Argument • [Poor Willie] • (1960) • poem by Randall Garrett
• 175 • What the Left Hand Was Doing • (1960) • novelette by Randall Garrett [as by Darrell T. Langart]
• 204 • The Sound Sweep • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard (variant of The Sound-Sweep)
• 245 • Plenitude • (1959) • short story by Will Mohler [as by Will Worthington]
• 258 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 271 • Make a Prison • (1959) • short story by Lawrence Block
• 275 • What Now, Little Man? • (1959) • novelette by Mark Clifton
• 311 • Me • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck
• 312 • The Year's S-F, Summary and Honorable Mentions • (1960) • essay by Judith Merril (variant of The Year's S-F, Summation and Honorable Mentions (The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F))