In 1984, Gardner Dozois gathered together what he thought was the best short science fiction of the previous year. He scrutinized as many of the magazines, collections and anthologies published in 1983 that he could get his hands on and chose those which he felt best represented the science fiction field. Jim Frenkel published it as part of his Bluejay Books line (for three years) and it has been produced every year since then (by St. Martins's Press). The book is produced in two formats: a hard cover edition and a perfect bound paper cover version. Contents: Sorted by Volume | Sorted by Author | Sorted by Title

1	Gardner Dozois	Acknowledgments: 1983
1	Gardner Dozois	Introduction: Summation: 1983
1	Bruce Sterling	Cicada Queen
1	James Tiptree, Jr.	Beyond the Dead Reef
1	Ian Watson	Slow-Birds
1	Poul Anderson	Vulcan's Forge
1	Howard Waldrop	Man-Mountain Gentian
1	Greg Bear	Hardfought
1	Joe Haldeman	Manifest Destiny
1	Avram Davidson	Full Chicken Richness
1	Robert Silverberg	Multiples
1	Jack McDevitt	Cryptic
1	Connie Willis	The Sidon in the Mirror
1	R. A. Lafferty	Golden Gate
1	Jack M. Dann	Blind Shemmy
1	Pat Murphy	In the Islands
1	Tanith Lee	Nunc Dimittis
1	Greg Bear	Blood Music
1	Leigh Kennedy	Her Furry Face
1	Rand B. Lee	Knight of Shallows
1	Gene Wolfe	The Cat
1	George R. R. Martin	The Monkey Treatment
1	Pat Cadigan	Nearly Departed
1	John Kessel	Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine
1	Dan Simmons	Carrion Comfort
1	Vernor Vinge	Gemstone
1	Kim Stanley Robinson	Black Air
1	Gardner Dozois	Honorable Mentions: 1983
2	Gardner Dozois	Acknowledgments: 1984
2	Gardner Dozois	Summation: 1984
2	Lucius Shepard	Salvador
2	Jack McDevitt	Promises to Keep
2	Octavia E. Butler	Bloodchild
2	Connie Willis	Blued Moon
2	Richard Cowper	A Message to the King of Brobdingnag
2	Robert Silverberg	The Affair
2	John Varley	PRESS ENTER []
2	William Gibson	New Rose Hotel
2	Gene Wolfe	The Map
2	Molly Gloss	Interlocking Pieces
2	Michael Swanwick	Trojan Horse
2	Jack M. Dann	Bad Medicine
2	Elizabeth A. Lynn	At the Embassy Club
2	Rena Yount	Pursuit of Excellence
2	Frederik Pohl	The Kindly Isle
2	Pat Cadigan	Rock On
2	Bruce Sterling	Sunken Gardens
2	Nancy Kress	Trinity
2	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Trouble with the Cotton People
2	Lewis Shiner	Twilight Time
2	Lucius Shepard	Black Coral
2	James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel	Friend
2	Tanith Lee	Foreign Skins
2	R. A. Lafferty	Company in the Wings
2	Gene Wolfe	A Cabin on the Coast
2	Kim Stanley Robinson	The Lucky Strike
2	Gardner Dozois	Honorable Mentions: 1984
3	Gardner Dozois	Acknowledgments: 1985
3	Gardner Dozois	Summation: 1985
3	Lucius Shepard	The Jaguar Hunter
3	Michael Swanwick & William Gibson	Dogfight
3	Frederik Pohl	Fermi and Frost
3	Bruce Sterling	Green Days in Brunei
3	John Crowley	Snow
3	Orson Scott Card	The Fringe
3	Karen Joy Fowler	The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things
3	Robert Silverberg	Sailing to Byzantium
3	James Patrick Kelly	Solstice
3	Avram Davidson	Duke Pasquale's Ring
3	Joe Haldeman	More Than the Sum of His Parts
3	Nancy Kress	Out of All Them Bright Stars
3	Walter Jon Williams	Side Effects
3	James Tiptree, Jr.	The Only Neat Thing to Do
3	Bruce Sterling	Dinner in Audoghast
3	George R. R. Martin	Under Siege
3	Howard Waldrop	Flying Saucer Rock & Roll
3	Lucius Shepard	A Spanish Lesson
3	Pat Cadigan	Roadside Rescue
3	James P. Blaylock	Paper Dragons
3	R. A. Lafferty	Magazine Section
3	Lewis Shiner	The War at Home
3	S. C. Sykes	Rockabye Baby
3	Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars
3	Gardner Dozois	Honorable Mentions: 1985
4	Gardner Dozois	Acknowledgments: 1986
4	Gardner Dozois	Summation: 1986
4	Lucius Shepard	R&R
4	Orson Scott Card	Hatrack River
4	Damon Knight	Strangers on Paradise
4	Pat Cadigan	Pretty Boy Crossover
4	Robert Silverberg	Against Babylon
4	Somtow Sucharitkul	Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes
4	Tanith Lee	Into Gold
4	Scott Baker	Sea Change
4	Michael Swanwick	Covenant of Souls
4	John Kessel	The Pure Product
4	Richard Kearns	Grave Angels
4	Greg Bear	Tangents
4	Bruce Sterling	The Beautiful and the Sublime
4	Jack M. Dann	Tattoos
4	Tim Powers	Night Moves
4	James Patrick Kelly	The Prisoner of Chillon
4	Connie Willis	Chance
4	Harry Turtledove	And So to Bed
4	Howard Waldrop	Fair Game
4	Walter Jon Williams	Video Star
4	Neal Barrett, Jr.	Sallie C.
4	Lewis Shiner	Jeff Beck
4	Judith Moffett	Surviving
4	Kim Stanley Robinson	Down and Out in the Year 2000
4	Tom Maddox	Snake-Eyes
4	Karen Joy Fowler	The Gate of Ghosts
4	William Gibson	The Winter Market
4	Gardner Dozois	Honorable Mentions: 1986

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