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• ix • Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • R & R • (1986) • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 67 • Hatrack River • [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 91 • Strangers on Paradise • (1986) • short story by Damon Knight (variant of Strangers in Paradise)
• 105 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 115 • Against Babylon • (1986) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 133 • Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes • (1986) • novelette by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• 155 • Into Gold • (1986) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 181 • Sea Change • (1986) • short story by Scott Baker
• 198 • Covenant of Souls • (1986) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• 229 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• 247 • Grave Angels • (1986) • novelette by Richard Kearns
• 274 • Tangents • (1986) • short story by Greg Bear
• 289 • The Beautiful and the Sublime • (1986) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 314 • Tattoos • (1986) • novelette by Jack Dann
• 333 • Night Moves • (1986) • novelette by Tim Powers
• 352 • The Prisoner of Chillon • (1986) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 384 • Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 411 • And So to Bed • [A Different Flesh • 2] • (1986) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 425 • Fair Game • (1986) • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 439 • Video Star • (1986) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 469 • Sallie C. • (1986) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 490 • Jeff Beck • (1986) • short story by Lewis Shiner
• 499 • Surviving • (1986) • novelette by Judith Moffett
• 529 • Down and Out in the Year 2000 • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 544 • Snake-Eyes • (1986) • short story by Tom Maddox
• 562 • The Gate of Ghosts • (1986) • novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
• 581 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• 599 • Honorable Mentions: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois