The 1990 Annual World's Best SF

"Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim)
"Alphas" (Gregory Benford)
"The Magic Bullet" (Brian Stableford)
"North of the Abyss" (Brian W. Aldiss)
"Chiprunner" (Robert Silverberg)
"Abe Lincoln in McDonald's" (James Morrow)
"Death Ship" (Barrington J. Bayley)
"In Translation" (Lisa Tuttle)
"A Sleep and a Forgetting" (Robert Silverberg)
"Not Without Honor" (Judith Moffett)
"Dogwalker" (Orson Scott Card)
"Surrender" (Lucius Shepard)
"War Fever" (J.G. Ballard)