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