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• 1 • Introduction: Summation: 1985 • (1986) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 15 • The Jaguar Hunter • (1985) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 38 • Dogfight • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
• 59 • Fermi and Frost • (1985) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 74 • Green Days in Brunei • (1985) • novella by Bruce Sterling
• 120 • Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
• 135 • The Fringe • [The Mormon Sea] • (1985) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 157 • The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things • (1985) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 169 • Sailing to Byzantium • (1985) • novella by Robert Silverberg
• 224 • Solstice • (1985) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 258 • Duke Pasquale's Ring • [Doctor Eszterhazy] • (1985) • novella by Avram Davidson
• 297 • More Than the Sum of His Parts • (1985) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 314 • Out of All Them Bright Stars • (1985) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 322 • Side Effects • (1985) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 351 • The Only Neat Thing to Do • [Rift] • (1985) • novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 399 • Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 411 • Under Siege • (1985) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 438 • Flying Saucer Rock & Roll • (1985) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 457 • A Spanish Lesson • (1985) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 486 • Roadside Rescue • (1985) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 494 • Paper Dragons • [Land of Dreams] • (1985) • novelette by James P. Blaylock
• 510 • Magazine Section • (1985) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 523 • The War at Home • (1985) • short story by Lewis Shiner
• 527 • Rockabye Baby • (1985) • novelette by S. C. Sykes
• 552 • Green Mars • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1985) • novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 622 • Honorable Mentions: 1985 • (1986) • essay by Gardner Dozois