2025 Table of Contents

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 contains the following stories.

FANTASY

• 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

• 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