Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction: The "Best" of the Year • essay by David Garnett [as by David S. Garnett]
• 11 • Forever Yours, Anna • (1987) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 27 • The Sun Spider • (1987) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 63 • Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye • (1987) • short story by Richard Kadrey
• 75 • Friend's Best Man • (1987) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 97 • The Wound • (1987) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 117 • E-Ticket to 'Namland • (1987) • novelette by Dan Simmons (variant of E-Ticket to Namland)
• 141 • Ménage à Super-Trois • (1987) • short story by Felix C. Gotschalk
• 157 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 189 • Agents • (1987) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 219 • Lapidary Nights • (1987) • short story by Marta Randall
• 235 • Murderers Walk • (1987) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 243 • Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! • [Wild Cards] • (1987) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 283 • The Annotated Jetboy • (1986) • essay by Howard Waldrop
• 293 • Opposite Numbers • (1988) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 303 • Science Fiction Novels of the Year (The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1) • essay by John Clute
• 319 • Forever Changes • essay by David Garnett [as by David S. Garnett]