Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year

Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the fourteenth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in July 1985, and in hardcover and trade paperback by Gollancz in October of the same year, under the alternate title Best SF of the Year #14. The book collects thirteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown. The stories were previously published in 1984 in the magazines Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Interzone, and the anthologies Habitats, Universe 14, and Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time.