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From alien visitations that fracture reality to time-bending starships confronting their own futures, from eloquent polar bears pleading for planetary survival to fierce clashes between science and faith at the edge of a Dyson sphere—Amazing Stories: Best of 2025 gathers the year's most daring, thought-provoking science fiction into one extraordinary volume.

In these pages, horror refuses to stay on the page. Technology outruns certainty. Humanity meets itself—sometimes across the stars, sometimes across a mirror. Old questions burn anew: What defines consciousness? Can progress and reverence coexist? What happens when imagination becomes reality?

Edited by Lloyd Penney, this curated collection showcases bold new voices alongside seasoned masters of the genre, each pushing boundaries in stories that are visionary, unsettling, and unforgettable.

For a century, Amazing Stories has defined the cutting edge of speculative fiction. These are the tales carrying that legacy forward—into the unknown.