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• 1 • Introduction (The 1989 Annual World's Best SF) • (1989) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 5 • The Giving Plague • (1988) • short story by David Brin
• 25 • Peaches for Mad Molly • (1988) • novelette by Steven Gould
• 49 • Shaman • (1988) • novelette by John Shirley
• 83 • Schrödinger's Kitten • [Budayeen] • (1988) • novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 109 • The Flies of Memory • (1988) • novella by Ian Watson
• 159 • Skin Deep • (1988) • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 175 • A Madonna of the Machine • (1988) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 197 • Waiting for the Olympians • (1988) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 241 • Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog • (1988) • short story by Brenda W. Clough [as by B. W. Clough]
• 253 • Adrift Among the Ghosts • (1988) • short story by Jack L. Chalker
• 269 • Ripples in the Dirac Sea • (1988) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis