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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

1985 science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois


1985 science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois

FieldValue
nameThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
imageThe Year's Best Science Fiction - Second Annual Collection.jpg
editorGardner Dozois
cover_artistTom Kidd
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
seriesThe Year's Best Science Fiction
genreScience fiction
publisherSt. Martin's Griffin (Bluejay Books)
release_date1985
media_typePrint (hardcover & trade paperback)
pages573 pp
isbn9780312944841
oclc12252028
preceded_byThe Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection
followed_byThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1985. It is the 2nd in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents

  • "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
  • "Promises to Keep" by Jack McDevitt
  • "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
  • "Blued Moon" by Connie Willis
  • "A Message to the King of Brobdingnag" by Richard Cowper
  • "The Affair" by Robert Silverberg
  • "PRESS ENTER []" by John Varley
  • "New Rose Hotel" by William Gibson
  • "The Map" by Gene Wolfe
  • "Interlocking Pieces" by Molly Gloss
  • "Trojan Horse" by Michael Swanwick
  • "Bad Medicine" by Jack Dann
  • "At the Embassy Club" by Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • "Pursuit of Excellence" by Rena Yount
  • "The Kindly Isle" by Frederik Pohl
  • "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
  • "Sunken Gardens [Mechanist-Shapers]" by Bruce Sterling
  • "Trinity" by Nancy Kress
  • "The Trouble with the Cotton People" by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Twilight Time" by Lewis Shiner
  • "Black Coral" by Lucius Shepard
  • "Friend" by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
  • "Foreign Skins" by Tanith Lee
  • "Company in the Wings" by R. A. Lafferty
  • "A Cabin on the Coast" by Gene Wolfe
  • "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson
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