Best of British Science Fiction 2025
(2026)(A book in the Best of British Science Fiction series)
An anthology of stories edited by Donna Scott
Editor Donna Scott has been rigorously selecting and rejecting stories by British and Irish authors, setting aside the good in order to produce a volume of the very good. A selection of outstanding stories gleaned from anthologies, collections, websites and magazines (including Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, ParSec, Uncanny, Apex, Shorelines of Infinity, and more).
Twenty-one stories representing some of the very best science fiction published in 2025, gathered within the covers of one book.
Contents:
Introduction – Donna Scott
An Examination of the Trolley Problem Using a Sentient Warship
and a Rotating Black Hole – Gareth L Powell
The Swap – Lavie Tidhar
The Flaming Embusen – Tade Thompson
Last Gasp – Stark Holborn
The Time Traveller’s Husbands – Garry Kilworth
On the Night Shift – Zohar Jacobs
The Walled Garden – Fiona Moore
Alba and the Great Crystal – Eric Brown and Keith Brooke
Coriander – Ana Sun
Dark Matter – Caitriana NicNeacail
Hand of Fire – E.M. Faulds
Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes – Tim Major
Going Out on a Limb – David Cleden
The Big Outside – Anne Charnock
Twin Engines – Lyle Hopwood
One by One – Lindz McLeod
My Vagus Proxy – Stephen Oram
Bone-eater Earth – Emma Burnett
To Reap, To Sow – Lyndsey Croal
Wheat Futures – Vaughan Stanger
Merlin’s Hole – Allen Ashley
About the Authors
Genre: Science Fiction
Twenty-one stories representing some of the very best science fiction published in 2025, gathered within the covers of one book.
Contents:
Introduction – Donna Scott
An Examination of the Trolley Problem Using a Sentient Warship
and a Rotating Black Hole – Gareth L Powell
The Swap – Lavie Tidhar
The Flaming Embusen – Tade Thompson
Last Gasp – Stark Holborn
The Time Traveller’s Husbands – Garry Kilworth
On the Night Shift – Zohar Jacobs
The Walled Garden – Fiona Moore
Alba and the Great Crystal – Eric Brown and Keith Brooke
Coriander – Ana Sun
Dark Matter – Caitriana NicNeacail
Hand of Fire – E.M. Faulds
Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes – Tim Major
Going Out on a Limb – David Cleden
The Big Outside – Anne Charnock
Twin Engines – Lyle Hopwood
One by One – Lindz McLeod
My Vagus Proxy – Stephen Oram
Bone-eater Earth – Emma Burnett
To Reap, To Sow – Lyndsey Croal
Wheat Futures – Vaughan Stanger
Merlin’s Hole – Allen Ashley
About the Authors
Genre: Science Fiction
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