The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

Contents 9 • Introduction: Summation: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois 27 • Salvador • (1984) • shortstory by Lucius Shepard 45 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt 63 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler 82 • Blued Moon • (1984) • novelette by Connie Willis 113 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper 135 • The Affair • (1984) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 153 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley 207 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson 219 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 232 • Interlocking Pieces • (1984) • shortstory by Molly Gloss 239 • Trojan Horse • (1984) • novelette by Michael Swanwick 269 • Bad Medicine • (1984) • novelette by Jack Dann 291 • At the Embassy Club • (1984) • shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn 301 • Pursuit of Excellence • (1984) • novelette by Rena Yount 319 • The Kindly Isle • (1984) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl 341 • Rock On • (1984) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan 350 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling 365 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress 409 • The Trouble With the Cotton People • (1984) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin 420 • Twilight Time • (1984) • novelette by Lewis Shiner 440 • Black Coral • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 466 • Friend • (1984) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel 484 • Foreign Skins • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee 511 • Company in the Wings • (1983) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty 524 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 536 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson 569 • Honorable Mentions: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois