Fresh off winning a 2025 Aurora Award for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two, I’m thrilled to announce the full Table of Contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three. The book will publish on October 14, 2025 and is available for pre-order now (the trade paperback edition will be available for pre-order shortly).
Featuring award winners, award finalists, and hidden gems, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction and speculative poetry being written by Canadians today.
Editor’s Introduction: 2024 Year in Review – Stephen Kotowych
“The High Cost of Heat,” Kelly Robson
“Hijack,” Karl Schroeder
“Saving Week,” Julie E. Czerneda
“Turn About,” Tanya Huff
“The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune,” Anna Bendiy
“Not Lost (Never Lost),” Premee Mohamed
“Cthulhu on the Shores of Osaka” (poem), Y. M. Pang
“Phosphorescence,” Ben Berman Ghan
“The Patron Saint of Flatliners,” K.A. Wiggins
“Vasilisa” (poem), Melanie Marttila
“BUDDY RAYMOND’S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING,” Gillian Secord
“The Pain of a Twilight,” Annie Tenaglio. Translated by Margaret Sankey
“The Portmeirion Road,” Fiona Moore
“Trip Through the Robot” (poem), Carolyn Clink & David Clink
“A Vine Entwines Them,” Geoff Gander
“The Warfighter,” Timothy Quinn
“The Breath of Kannask,” Hiron Ennes
“Star Stitcher” (poem), A.J. Van Belle
“Swallowtail,” Blake Jessop
“A Portal Fantasy for Grown-ups,” Catherine George
“Midnight Man Versus the Long Night,” Chadwick Ginther
“Welcome to Resurrection Lodge” (poem), Chris Clemens
“Hearsay,” Holly Schofield
“A World of Milk and Promises,” R H Wesley
“What Beautiful Heavens These” (poem), Kaya Skovdatter
“And When She Shatters,” Kerry C. Byrne
“Giant of the Stars,” Alex Langer
“Markets of the Otherworld,” Rati Mehrotra
“Angakkuq” (poem), Shantell Powell
“Telling the Soul of Mars,” Alina Pete
“On Slate and Skin,” Jonathan Olfert
“This Grimoire Belongs to Miss Cleo Jackson,” Elis Montgomery
“Corn God Revival” (poem), Colleen Anderson
“After the Apocalypse in Moosonee,” James Bow
“Margery Lung is Unstoppable,” Lisa Chen
“Once Upon a Planet,” Kelsey Hutton
“A Simple Errand,” Matthew John
“Bright Horizons,” P.A. Cornell
“As Twilight Approaches” (poem), Lisa Timpf
“Desolation Sounds,” Geoffrey W. Cole
“One Becomes Two,” A.D. Sui
“Light of My Life” (poem), Ian Li
“Rented,” Agata Antonow
“The Bread Boy,” Ariel Marken Jack
“Born Against Teeth” (poem), Tiffany Morris
“Mars Needs Psychopaths,” Derryl Murphy
“Blood and Desert Dreams,” Y.M. Pang
“Our Time and Space” (poem), Mahaila Smith
“Intergalactic Imperative,” Pauline Barmby
“The World in Our Hands,” Sophie Gazarian
“Songs for Intergalactic Seas” (poem), Lynne Sargent
“Vigilant,” Cory Doctorow
Can’t wait for you to have this in your hands. I know you’re going to love it.
– S.