 Cover of first edition, 1976 | |
| Editor | Terry Carr |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1976 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 367 |
| ISBN | 0-345-25064-8 |
| 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,