The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including the story "The Audit" from Januaries.
A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by award-winning author of Death of the Author and the Binti Trilogy, Nnedi Okorafor, and series editor John Joseph Adams.
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
Nnedi Okorafor selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.
Fantasy
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Look at the Moon by Dominique Dickey
from Lightspeed -
The Witch Trap by Jennifer Hudak
from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet -
Ushers by Joe Hill
from Amazon Original Stories -
Country Birds by Kij Johnson
from Sunday Morning Transport -
The Wonders of the World by ‘Pemi Aguda
from Ghostroots: Stories -
Also, the Cat by Rachel Swirsky
from Reactor -
What Happened to the Crooners by Russell Nichols
from Nightmare -
The River Judge by S.L. Huang
from Reactor -
A Stranger Knocks by Tananarive Due
from Uncanny -
An Ode to the Minor Arcana in a Triplet Flow by Xavier Garcia
from Death in the Mouth, Vol. 2
Science Fiction
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The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics by Adam-Troy Castro
from Lightspeed -
The Weight of Your Own Ashes by Carlie St. George
from Clarkesworld -
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read by Caroline M. Yoachim
from Lightspeed -
Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
from Clarkesworld -
The Forgetting Room by Kathryn H. Ross
from FIYAH -
The Audit by Olivie Blake
from Januaries -
Yarns by Susan Palwick
from Asimov’s -
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune
from In the Lives of Puppets -
Fuck Them Kids by Tatiana Obey
from FIYAH -
The Sort by Thomas Ha
from Clarkesworld
