The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

The book collects twenty-eight novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 1987 in various science fiction and other magazines.[1]

• "Summation: 1987" (Gardner Dozois)
• "Rachel in Love" (Pat Murphy)
• "Dream Baby" (Bruce McAllister)
• "Flowers of Edo" (Bruce Sterling)
• "Forever Yours, Anna" (Kate Wilhelm)
• "At the Cross-Time Jaunter's Ball" (Alexander Jablokov)
• "Dinosaurs" (Walter Jon Williams)
• "Perpetuity Blues" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
• "The Temporary King" (Paul J. McAuley)
• "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• "The Pardoner's Tale" (Robert Silverberg)
• "Glass Cloud" (James Patrick Kelly)
• "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (Octavia E. Butler)
• "Night of the Cooters" (Howard Waldrop)
• "Angel" (Pat Cadigan)
• "Shades" (Lucius Shepard)
• "The Faithful Companion at Forty" (Karen Joy Fowler)
• "Candle in a Cosmic Wind" (Joseph Manzione)
• "The Emir's Clock" (Ian Watson)
• "Ever After" (Susan Palwick)
• "The Forest of Time" (Michael Flynn)
• "The Million-Dollar Wound" (Dean Whitlock)
• "The Moon of Popping Trees" (R. Garcia y Robertson)
• "Diner" (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
• "All the Hues of Hell" (Gene Wolfe)
• "Halley's Passing" (Michael McDowell)
• "America" (Orson Scott Card)
• "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage" (Michael Bishop)
• "Mother Goddess of the World" (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• "Honorable Mentions: 1987" (Gardner Dozois)

The anthology placed second in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]