The 1986 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the fourteenth volume in a series of nineteen.

It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1986, followed by a hardcover edition issued in August of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.

The book collects ten novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim.

"With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole" placed first in the 1986 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.

"The Curse of Kings" placed twelfth in the 1986 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.