The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

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