The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (ISBN 0-312-94484-5) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

 that was published in 1985. It is the 2nd in The Year's Best Science Fiction
The Year's Best Science Fiction
The Year's Best Science Fiction books are a series of science fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois. In 2005 Dozois produced a "Best of the Best" review with a foreword by Robert Silverberg. The series is published by St. Martin's Press ....

 series.

Contents

  • 9 • Summation: 1984 • Gardner Dozois
    Gardner Dozois
    Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

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  • 27 • Salvador
    Salvador (story)
    "Salvador" is a science fiction short story published in 1984 by Lucius Shepard. In 1985 it won the Locus Poll award for Best Short Story, the SF Chronicle award for Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Short Story....

     • Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...

     • ss F&SF Apr ’84
  • 45 • Promises to Keep • Jack McDevitt
    Jack McDevitt
    Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology....

     • nv IASFM Dec ’84
  • 63 • Bloodchild • Octavia E. Butler
    Octavia E. Butler
    Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.- Background :Butler...

     • nv IASFM Jun ’84
  • 82 • Blued Moon • Connie Willis
    Connie Willis
    Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear...

     • nv IASFM Jan ’84
  • 113 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • Richard Cowper • nv F&SF May ’84
  • 135 • The Affair • Robert Silverberg
    Robert Silverberg
    Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...

     • ss Playboy Jun ’84
  • 153 • PRESS ENTER [] • John Varley
    John Varley (author)
    John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...

     • na IASFM May ’84
  • 207 • New Rose Hotel • William Gibson
    William Gibson
    William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...

     • ss Omni Jul ’84
  • 219 • The Map • Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...

     • ss Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984
  • 232 • Interlocking Pieces • Molly Gloss
    Molly Gloss
    Molly Gloss is an American writer currently best known for historical fiction and science fiction.-Life:Molly Gloss grew up in rural Oregon and began writing seriously when she became a mother. She now lives in Portland, Oregon and is close friends with fellow science fiction writer Ursula K. Le...

    • ss Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984
  • 239 • Trojan Horse • Michael Swanwick
    Michael Swanwick
    Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:...

     • nv Omni Dec ’84
  • 269 • Bad Medicine • Jack Dann
    Jack Dann
    Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...

     • nv IASFM Oct ’84
  • 291 • At the Embassy Club • Elizabeth A. Lynn
    Elizabeth A. Lynn
    Elizabeth A. Lynn is a US writer most known for fantasy and to a lesser extent science fiction. She is particularly known for being one of the first writers in science fiction or fantasy to introduce gay and lesbian characters; in honor of Lynn, the GLBT bookstore "A Different Light" took its...

     • ss Omni Jun ’84
  • 301 • Pursuit of Excellence • Rena Yount • nv The Clarion Awards, ed. Damon Knight, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984
  • 319 • The Kindly Isle • Frederik Pohl
    Frederik Pohl
    Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...

     • nv IASFM Nov ’84
  • 341 • Rock On • Pat Cadigan • ss Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984
  • 350 • Sunken Gardens [Mechanist-Shapers] • Bruce Sterling
    Bruce Sterling
    Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...

     • ss Omni Jun ’84
  • 365 • Trinity • Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...

     • na IASFM Oct ’84
  • 409 • The Trouble with the Cotton People • Ursula K. Le Guin
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...

     • ss The Missouri Review v7 #2 ’84
  • 420 • Twilight Time • Lewis Shiner
    Lewis Shiner
    Lewis Shiner is an American writer.Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, identified early on with cyberpunk, and later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements...

     • nv IASFM Apr ’84
  • 440 • Black Coral • Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...

     • nv Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984
  • 466 • Friend • James Patrick Kelly
    James Patrick Kelly
    James Patrick Kelly is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the science fiction field....

     & John Kessel
    John Kessel
    John Kessel is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer and the author of two solo novels, Good News From Outer Space and Corrupting Dr...

     • ss F&SF Jan ’84
  • 484 • Foreign Skins • Tanith Lee
    Tanith Lee
    Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...

     • nv Tamastara, DAW, 1984
  • 511 • Company in the Wings • R. A. Lafferty
    R. A. Lafferty
    Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit...

     • ss Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories, Drumm, 1983
  • 524 • A Cabin on the Coast
    A Cabin on the Coast
    "A Cabin on the Coast" is a science fiction / fantasy short story by Gene Wolfe, initially publishe in the February 1984 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and collected in Endangered Species and The Best Of Gene Wolfe...

     • Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...

     • ss F&SF Feb ’84
  • 536 • The Lucky Strike • Kim Stanley Robinson
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research...

     • nv Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984
  • 569 • Honorable Mentions: 1984 • Gardner Dozois
    Gardner Dozois
    Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

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