The Best from Fantasy and science fiction fifth series

By Anthony Boucher

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Description: First published in 1956, this anthology collects works appearing in F&SF in 1955. Introduction by the editor, and these works: "Imagine: A Proem" (poem) by Fredric Brown; "You're Another" by Damon Knight; "This Earth of Majesty" by Arthur C. Clarke; "Birds Can't Count" by Mildred Clingerman; "The Golem" by Avram Davidson; "Pottage" by Zenna Henderson; "The Vanishing American" by Charles Beaumont; "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones; "Too Far" by Fredric Brown; "A Matter of Energy" by James Blish; "Nellthu" by Anthony Boucher; "Dreamworld" by Isaac Asimov; "One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson; "The Short Ones" by Raymond E. Banks; "The Last Prophet" by Mildred Clingerman; "Botany Bay" by P. M. Hubbard; "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; "Lament by a Maker" (poem) by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Doctrine of Original Design" (poem) by Winona McClintic; "Pattern for Survival" by Richard Matheson; "The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov; "The Last Word" by Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont; "Survival" (poem) by Carlyn Coffin.