Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction

Award winners. Award finalists. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology. Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction being written by Canadians today. Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada's finest established and emerging fantasy and science fiction writers, including Premee Mohamed, Peter Watts, Kate Heartfield, Ai Jiang, Eric Choi, and Suzan Palumbo, among others. From hard science fiction that propels you through the cosmos to haunting fantasy that lingers in the recesses of your imagination, join these writers as they explore the wonderous, the contemporary, the futuristic, and what it means to be human-all through the lens of the fantastic. Curated by award-winning author and anthologist Stephen Kotowych, and selected from top markets like Analog, F&SF, Lightspeed, On Spec, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, the Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction is your definitive guide to the very best fantastical fiction written by Canadians today. Featuring stories and poems that were winners and finalists for the Aurora Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Ignyte Award, Prix Solaris, World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, and many more.

"Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reader's bookshelf." - Amazing StoriesNominated for the 2025 Aurora Award for Best Anthology!The Aurora Award-winning series returns with a new volume!Venture into extraordinary realms of imagination with the essential collection of the year's best Canadian fantasy and science fiction.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada's most celebrated authors and rising stars in fantasy and science fiction, including Cory Doctorow, Amal El-Mohtar, Nalo Hopkinson, Rich Larson, Premee Mohamed, and Kelly Robson, amongst others.From alien worlds to magical realms, these stories explore the wonderous, the contemporary, the futuristic, and what it means to be human-all through the unique lens of Canadian speculative fiction.Curated by award-winning author and anthologist Stephen Kotowych and selected from top markets like Asimov's, Augur, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, On Spec, PodCastle, and Tor.com, prepare to be captivated, challenged, and utterly transported by the very best fantastical fiction written by Canadians today.Featuring stories and poems that were winners and finalists for the Aurora Award, BSFA Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Shirley Jackson Award, Prix Solaris, World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, and many more.

"Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reader's bookshelf." - Amazing Stories2025 Locus Recommended Reading List!The World Fantasy Award finalist and two-time Aurora Award-winning series is back with an all-new volume!Step into worlds of wonder with the definitive showcase of the best Canadian fantasy and science fiction of the year.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada's most celebrated authors and rising stars in fantasy and science fiction, including Premee Mohamed, Kelly Robson, Karl Schroeder, Julie E. Czerneda, Tanya Huff, and Cory Doctorow.From enchanted realms to distant galaxies, these stories reveal the strange, the familiar, and the deeply human-all through the unique lens of Canadian speculative fiction.Curated by award-winning author and anthologist Stephen Kotowych and selected from top markets like Augur, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, khōréō, Mysterion, Nature:Futures, On Spec, Reactor, and Sunday Morning Transport, prepare to be captivated, challenged, and utterly transported by the very best fantastical fiction written by Canadians today.Featuring stories and poems that were winners and finalists for the Aurora Award, BSFA Award, Prix Solaris, the Rhysling Award, and many more.