Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vi • Editor's Note (Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16) • essay by Beth Meacham
• ix • Introduction (Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16) • essay by Terry Carr
• 1 • Escape from Kathmandu • (1986) • novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 57 • Hatrack River • [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 85 • Blindsight • (1986) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 109 • Galileo Complains • (1986) • short story by Carter Scholz
• 114 • Aymara • (1986) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 154 • Cold Light • (1986) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 186 • Surviving • (1986) • novelette by Judith Moffett
• 222 • The Prisoner of Chillon • (1986) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 261 • And so to Bed • (1986) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 277 • Grave Angels • (1986) • novelette by Richard Kearns
• 310 • Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (1986) • novella by John Varley
• 386 • 1986, the SF and Fantasy Year in Review • essay by Charles N. Brown
• 401 • Recommended Reading (1986) • essay by Terry Carr