The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5
Cover of first edition, 1976
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| Author | edited by Terry Carr |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
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1976 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 367 pp. |
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| Preceded by | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 |
| Followed by | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the fifth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in July 1976.
The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown. The stories were previously published in 1975 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and Amazing Science Fiction, and the anthologies The New Improved Sun, The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, and New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 5,
The anthology placed first in the 1977 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.
"Down to a Sunless Sea" was nominated for the 1976 Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction and placed second in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"Retrograde Summer" was nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and placed fourth in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"The Silent Eyes of Time" was nominated for the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Novella and placed fourth in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.
"Croatoan" was nominated for the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and placed first in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.
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