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The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Fifth Series

Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg

First published 1985
Series The Great SF StoriesGolden Years of SF #5
Publisher Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Romas
Pages 641
Price $6.98
ISBN 0517475669

Previously published as two separate works entitled "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 9 (1947)" and "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 10 (1948)" (from DJ)

  • "This 1985 edition is published by Bonanza Books..." printed on the copyright page with a complete letter-line: "h g f e d c b a".
  • No printed price (this was an "instant remainder".), but a handwritten $6.98
  • This is actually an omnibus which reprints the complete contents of two previously published anthologies: Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 9 (1947) and Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 10 (1948). There is only one Table of Contents and there is continuous pagination (some volumes of this series were published with each half having its own Table of Contents and pagination.)
  • The Introduction is a combination of the two introductions for the individual volumes. It is not credited here, but is credited as by Martin H. Greenberg in the original anthologies.

Page Title Author(s) Type
7 Introduction (The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Fifth Series) uncredited Essay
15 Little Lost Robot Isaac Asimov Novelette
42 Tomorrow's Children Poul Anderson & F. N. Waldrop Novelette
71 Child's Play William Tenn Novelette
100 Time and Time Again H. Beam Piper Short Story
119 Tiny and the Monster Theodore Sturgeon Novelette
155 E for Effort T. L. Sherred Novelette
207 Letter to Ellen Chan Davis Short Story
220 The Figure Edward Grendon Short Story
226 With Folded Hands ... Jack Williamson Novelette
272 The Fires Within Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
282 Zero Hour Ray Bradbury Short Story
293 Hobbyist Eric Frank Russell Novelette
327 Exit the Professor Lewis Padgett Short Story
343 Thunder and Roses Theodore Sturgeon Novelette
367 Don't Look Now Henry Kuttner Short Story
381 He Walked Around the Horses H. Beam Piper Novelette
403 The Strange Case of John Kingman Murray Leinster Short Story
420 That Only a Mother Judith Merril Short Story
431 The Monster A. E. van Vogt Short Story
448 Dreams Are Sacred Peter Phillips Novelette
471 Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury Short Story
489 Thang Martin Gardner Short Story
492 Brooklyn Project William Tenn Short Story
503 Ring Around the Redhead John D. MacDonald Short Story
523 Period Piece J. J. Coupling Short Story
532 Dormant A. E. van Vogt Short Story
549 In Hiding Wilmar H. Shiras Novelette
583 Knock Fredric Brown Short Story
594 A Child Is Crying John D. MacDonald Short Story
607 Late Night Final Eric Frank Russell Novelette