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The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1984. It is the 1st of 35 in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.^[1] It is available in the Kindle format.^[2]

Contents

• "Cicada Queen [Mechanist-Shapers]" by Bruce Sterling
• "Beyond the Dead Reef" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Slow-Birds" by Ian Watson
• "Vulcan’s Forge" by Poul Anderson
• "Man-Mountain Gentian" by Howard Waldrop
• "Hardfought" by Greg Bear
• "Manifest Destiny" by Joe Haldeman
• "Full Chicken Richness" by Avram Davidson
• "Multiples" by Robert Silverberg
• "Cryptic" by Jack McDevitt
• "The Sidon in the Mirror" by Connie Willis
• "Golden Gate" by R. A. Lafferty
• "Blind Shemmy" by Jack Dann
• "In the Islands" by Pat Murphy
• "Nunc Dimittis" by Tanith Lee
• "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
• "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy
• "Knight of Shallows" by Rand B. Lee
• "The Cat" by Gene Wolfe
• "The Monkey Treatment" by George R. R. Martin
• "Nearly Departed [Deadpan Allie]" by Pat Cadigan
• "Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine" by John Kessel
• "Carrion Comfort" by Dan Simmons
• "Gemstone" by Vernor Vinge
• "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson

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