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The 1985 Annual World's Best SF

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Contents

* "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim)

* "The Picture Man" (John Dalmas)

* "Cash Crop" (Connie Willis)

* "We Remember Babylon" (Ian Watson)

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* "What Makes Us Human" (Stephen R. Donaldson)

* "Salvador" (Lucius Shepard)

* "Press Enter []" (John Varley)

* "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (George Alec Effinger)

* "Bloodchild" (Octavia E. Butler)

* "The Coming of the Goonga" (Gary W. Shockley)

* "Medra" (Tanith Lee)

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 302 pages

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