Five-Odd
{{Short description|1964 anthology edited by Groff Conklin}}
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| editor = Groff Conklin
| cover_artist = John Schoenherr
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Pyramid Books
| release_date = 1964
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| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 188
| dewey= 813.5
| congress= PS648.S3 C66556
| oclc= 05270903
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Five-Odd is an anthology of science fiction novelettes edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in August 1964; it was reprinted in June 1971. The first British edition was published under the alternate title Possible Tomorrows in hardcover by Sidgwick & Jackson in June 1972; a paperback edition was issued by Coronet under the same title in September 1973. It was later gathered together with the Donald A. Wollheim-edited anthology Trilogy of the Future into the omnibus anthology Science Fiction Special 9 (Sidgwick & Jackson, April 1974).{{isfdb title|id=34594}}
The book collects one novella, three novelettes and one short story by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1954-1961 in various science fiction magazines.
Contents
- "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
- "The Dead Past" (Isaac Asimov)
- "Something Strange" (Kingsley Amis)
- "Unit" (J. T. McIntosh)
- "Gone Fishing" (James H. Schmitz)
- "Big Ancestor" (F. L. Wallace)