Year's Best SF 2

The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editor.

• Dave Wolverton: "After a Lean Winter" (Originally in F&SF, 1996)
• Terry Bisson: "In the Upper Room" (Originally in Playboy, 1996)
• John Brunner: "Thinkertoy" (Originally in The Williamson Effect, 1996)
• Gregory Benford: "Zoomers" (Originally in Future Net, 1996)
• Sheila Finch: "Out of the Mouths" (Originally in F&SF, 1996)
• James Patrick Kelly: "Breakaway, Backdown" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996)
• Yves Meynard: "Tobacco Words" (Originally in Tomorrow, 1995)
• Joanna Russ: "Invasion" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996)
• Brian Stableford: "The House of Mourning" (Originally in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, 1996)
• Damon Knight: "Life Edit" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996)
• Robert Reed: "First Tuesday" (Originally in F&SF, 1996)
• David Langford: "The Spear of the Sun" (Originally in Interzone, 1996)
• Gene Wolfe: "Counting Cats in Zanzibar" (Originally in Asimov's, 1996)
• Bruce Sterling: "Bicycle Repairman" (Originally in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, 1996)
• Gwyneth Jones: "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" (Originally in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, 1996)
• Allen Steele: "Doblin's Lecture" (Originally in Pirate Writings, 1996)
• Kathleen Ann Goonan: "The Bride of Elvis" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996)
• Kate Wilhelm: "Forget Luck" (Originally in F&SF, 1996)
• Connie Willis: "Nonstop to Portales" (Originally in The Williamson Effect, 1996)
• Stephen Baxter: "Columbiad" (Originally in Science Fiction Age, 1996)

• Year's Best SF 2 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database