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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025: A Premier Showcase of Diverse Writers and Expansive Worlds in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Aleesha Nandhra Jax is assigned to aA collection of the years 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 countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respectedand most popularof its kind. Nnedi Okrafor selects twenty pieces that represent the best