''The 1985 Annual World's Best SF'' is an

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short stories edited by

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and Arthur W. Saha, the fourteenth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1985, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art by Frank Kelly Freas was replaced by a new cover painting by

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'', '' The Missouri Review'', and '' Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', and the anthologies ''

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'' and '' The Clarion Awards''.

*"Introduction" (

) *"The Picture Man" ( John Dalmas) *"Cash Crop" (

Connie Willis Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than ...

) *"We Remember Babylon" ( Ian Watson) *"What Makes Us Human" (

Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity ...

) *"Salvador" ( Lucius Shepard) *"Press Enter []" (John Varley (author), John Varley) *"The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (George Alec Effinger) *"Bloodchild" (Octavia E. Butler) *"The Coming of the Goonga" (Gary W. Shockley) *"Medra" ( Tanith Lee)

Awards

The anthology placed eighth in the 1986 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology. "We Remember Babylon" placed twenty-third in the 1985 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. "Salvador" was nominated for the 1984

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and the 1985

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, won the 1985 SF Chronicle Award for Best Short Story, and placed first in the Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story. "Press Enter []" won the 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 1985 SF Chronicle Award for Best Novella, and the 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed first in the 1985 Locus Award, Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" was nominated for the 1984

, the 1985 SF Chronicle Award for Best Short Story, and the 1985

, and placed third in the 1985 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story. "Bloodchild" won the 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the 1985 SF Chronicle Award for Best Novelette, and the 1985

Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...

, and placed first in the 1985 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.

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