The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

ix • Introduction: Summation: 1988 • essay by Gardner Dozois 1 • Surfacing • (1988) • novella by Walter Jon Williams 51 • Home Front • [Home Front] • (1988) • short story by James Patrick Kelly 62 • The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady • (1988) • novelette by Brian Stableford 81 • Peaches for Mad Molly • (1988) • novelette by Steven Gould 101 • The Last Article • (1988) • novelette by Harry Turtledove 128 • Stable Strategies for Middle Management • (1988) • short story by Eileen Gunn 140 • In Memoriam • (1988) • short story by Nancy Kress 147 • Kirinyaga • [Kirinyaga • 2] • (1988) • novelette by Mike Resnick 164 • The Girl Who Loved Animals • (1988) • short story by Bruce McAllister 181 • The Last of the Winnebagos • (1988) • novella by Connie Willis 223 • Love in Vain • (1988) • novelette by Lewis Shiner 241 • The Hob • [Holy Ground Trilogy] • (1988) • novelette by Judith Moffett 273 • Our Neural Chernobyl • (1988) • short story by Bruce Sterling 280 • House of Bones • (1988) • short story by Robert Silverberg 298 • Schrödinger's Kitten • [Budayeen] • (1988) • novelette by George Alec Effinger 319 • Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? • (1988) • novelette by Howard Waldrop 345 • The Growth of the House of Usher • [Biotech Revolution] • (1988) • novelette by Brian Stableford 364 • Glacier • (1988) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson 383 • Sanctuary • [Montezuma Strip] • (1988) • novella by Alan Dean Foster [as by James Lawson] 423 • The Dragon Line • (1988) • short story by Michael Swanwick 438 • Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner • (1988) • short story by John Kessel 449 • Emissary • (1988) • novelette by Stephen Kraus 468 • It Was the Heat • (1988) • short story by Pat Cadigan 482 • Skin Deep • (1988) • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 496 • Dying in Hull • (1988) • short story by David Alexander Smith [as by D. Alexander Smith] 509 • Distances • (1988) • novelette by Kathe Koja 526 • Famous Monsters • (1988) • short story by Kim Newman 535 • The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter • [Griaule] • (1988) • novella by Lucius Shepard 591 • Honorable Mentions: 1988 • essay by Gardner Dozois