The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories v2 list.

Title↥ Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews
"Day at the Beach" Carol Emshwiller 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"A Death in the House" Clifford D. Simak 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Dreamsman" Gordon R. Dickson 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes 1959
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Hugo Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1961Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Handler" Damon Knight 1960
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1991The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
"Inquiry Concerning the Curvature of the Earth's Surface" Roger Price 1958
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"Make a Prison" Lawrence Block 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Man Who Lost the Sea" Theodore Sturgeon 1959
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Mariana" Fritz Leiber 1960
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1991The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Multum in Parvo" Jack Sharkey 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"No Fire Burns" Avram Davidson 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"No, No, Not Rogov!" Cordwainer Smith 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Other Wife" Jack Finney 1960
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"Plenitude" Will Mohler 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"The Shoreline at Sunset" Ray Bradbury 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"The Sound Sweep" J. G. Ballard 1960
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
"What Now, Little Man?" Mark Clifton 1959
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"What the Left Hand Was Doing" Randall Garrett 1960
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1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
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