David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 2": Volume 2 of annual anthology series, 20 stories

Stories are ordered by quality, best first. Where I have read the story, my rating follows title, in brackets, followed by a very brief summary. Where I have posted a proper review of story, link on title takes you there.

When an author or publisher makes a story available for free download on web, & I am aware of the fact, I mark it with a "*" prefix, & provide a link either here or in my review article.

Most stories collected were first published during the year 1996.

1. Dave Wolverton's "After a Lean Winter"; F&SF: Not read.
2. * Terry Bisson's "In the Upper Room"; Playboy, online: Not read.
3. John Brunner's "Thinkertoy": Not read.
4. Gregory Benford's "Zoomers": Not read.
5. Sheila Finch's "Out of the Mouths"; F&SF: Not read.
6. James Patrick Kelly's "Breakaway, Backdown"; Asimov's: MP3 audio from a play adapted from story is available online in 3 parts - part 1, 2, 3: Not read or heard.
7. Yves Meynard's "Tobacco Words": Not read.
8. Joanna Russ' "Invasion"; Asimov's: Not read.
9. Brian Stableford's "The House of Mourning": Not read.
10. Damon Knight's "Life Edit": Not read.
11. Robert Reed's "First Tuesday"; F&SF: Not read.
12. David Langford's "The Spear of the Sun"; Interzone: Not read.
13. Gene Wolfe's "Counting Cats in Zanzibar"; Asimov's: Not read.
14. Bruce Sterling's "Bicycle Repairman": Not read.
15. Gwyneth Jones's "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland": Not read.
16. Allen Steele's "Doblin's Lecture": Not read.
17. Kathleen Ann Goonan's "The Bride of Elvis": Not read.
18. Kate Wilhelm's "Forget Luck"; F&SF: Not read.
19. Connie Willis's "Nonstop to Portales": Not read.
20. Stephen Baxter's "Columbiad": Not read.

First published: 1997
See also: Entire anthology series.