2026 Table of Contents

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

FANTASY

• Drosera regina by A.L. Goldfuss
  from Lightspeed
• The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow
  from Amazon Original Stories
• Human Voices by Isabel J. Kim
  from Lightspeed
• Made to Be Broken by Kari Maaren
  from The Orange & Bee
• What We Don’t Know About Angels by Kristina Ten
  from Lightspeed
• Chickenfoot Soup by Marika Bailey
  from Lightspeed
• A Nameless Thing by P.C. Verrone
  from FIYAH
• Squid Teeth by Sarah Langan
  From Reactor
• Resurrection Rum by Stephanie Malia Morris
  from PodCastle
• The Name Ziya by Wen-yi Lee
  from Reactor

SCIENCE FICTION

• Shorted by Alex Irvine
  from Reactor
• We the Fleet by Alex T. Singer
  from Clarkesworld
• Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak
  from Clarkesworld
• Kolumbo 1619: Choose Your Own Adventure by KÃNYIN Olorunnisolo
  from khōréō
• Five Things You Can See by Nadia Radovich
  from Strange Horizons
• Domestic Disputes by Naomi Kanakia
  from Lightspeed
• Catch a Tiger in the Snow by Ray Nayler
  from Asimov’s
• An Even Greater Cold to Come by Rich Larson
  from Clarkesworld
• In My Country by Thomas Ha
  from Clarkesworld
• The Patron by Thomas Ha
  from The Sunday Morning Transport