The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
# The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second 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
