David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF": Volume 1 of annual anthology series, 14 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.

If an author or publisher has made a certain story available online for free download, & I am aware of this, I mark the entry with "*" prefix, & provide a link to full text of story either here or in my review article.

Stories collected were each published during the year 1995.

1. James Patrick Kelly's "Think Like a Dinosaur"; Asimov's: Not read.
2. Patricia A McKillip's "Wonders of the Invisible World": Not read.
3. Robert Silverberg's "Hot Times in Magma City": Not read.
4. Stephen Baxter's "Gossamer": Not read.
5. Gregory Benford's "A Worm in the Well"; Analog: Not read.
6. William Browning Spencer's "Downloading Midnight": Not read.
7. Joe Haldeman's "For White Hill": Not read.
8. William Barton's "In Saturn Time": Not read.
9. Ursula K Le Guin's "Coming of Age in Karhide": Not read.
10. Roger Zelazny's "The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker"; F&SF: Not read.
11. Nancy Kress' "Evolution"; Asimov's: Not read.
12. * Robert Sheckley's "The Day the Aliens Came"; online: Not read.
13. * Joan Slonczewski's "Microbe"; Analog, online: Not read.
14. Gene Wolfe's "The Ziggurat": Not read.

First published: 1996
See also: Entire anthology series.