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• vii • Introduction (The 1987 Annual World's Best SF) • (1987) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 1 • Permafrost • (1986) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 24 • Timerider • (1986) • novelette by Doris Egan
• 67 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 78 • R & R • (1986) • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 158 • Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming • (1986) • short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 168 • Dream in a Bottle • (1986) • short story by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
• 182 • Into Gold • (1986) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 213 • The Lions Are Asleep This Night • (1986) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 234 • Against Babylon • (1986) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 255 • Strangers on Paradise • (1986) • short story by Damon Knight (variant of Strangers in Paradise)