{"id":3451,"date":"2026-11-08T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:37:18","slug":"review-the-best-american-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to be more diligent about checking in with these sorts of collections of short writing in genre, but I got away from it.  I hopped on this collection edited by Nnedi Okorafor and quite enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short story collections are by nature a mixed bag, and that&#8217;s what I signed up for when I borrowed this.  For me there were no bad stories in here &#8211; which isn&#8217;t always true.  There were two or three standouts.  And the writers are playing with genre tropes and representation as well as telling very straight-ahead genre fiction well.  Worth a look for a quick way to survey current SF.  I&#8217;ll probably grab another one of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be more diligent about checking in with these sorts of collections of short writing in genre, but I got away from it. I hopped on this collection edited by Nnedi Okorafor and quite enjoyed it. Short story collections are by nature a mixed bag, and that&#8217;s what I signed up for when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}