7 • Introduction (The 1980 Annual World's Best SF) • (1980) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim11 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin30 • The Thirteenth Utopia • [Inquestor] • (1979) • short story by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]52 • Options • [Eight Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by John Varley81 • Unaccompanied Sonata • (1979) • short story by Orson Scott Card100 • The Story Writer • (1979) • novella by Richard Wilson144 • Daisy, in the Sun • (1979) • short story by Connie Willis163 • The Locusts • (1979) • novelette by Steven Barnes and Larry Niven203 • The Thaw • (1979) • novelette by Tanith Lee223 • Out There Where the Big Ships Go • (1979) • novelette by Richard Cowper252 • Can These Bones Live? • (1979) • short story by Ted Reynolds272 • The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand • (1979) • short story by Joanna Russ