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.
Dave Langford reviewed Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year for White Dwarf #72, and stated that "I don't much like Varley's tale, whose flashy surface covers a thin and familiar technophobic theme.
[citation needed] "Fears" placed eighteenth in the 1985 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.