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Table of Contents November 2025

The latest SF/F stories to check out this November

Table of Contents November 2025

Here's the latest installment of Table of Contents, which rounds up the latest short fiction releases for November 2025.

You can check out the list of stories from October here (which has been updated with new links!) and past installments of this series here.

Apex Magazine (Issue 151, October-December 2025)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (Vol. XCV No. 11 & 12, November/December 2025)

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Fiction

  • "Aleyara’s Flight" by Christopher L. Bennett
  • "The Dancing Bear" by Joyce & Stanley Schmidt
  • "Faith" by Kate Maruyama
  • "One Step Away" by Lance Robinson
  • "Pirates Of Pan" by James Dick
  • "The Starworthy Slip" by A.c. Koch
  • "With Lanterns Borne Aloft" by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • "Termina" by Subodhana Wijeyeratne
  • "One Peek" by Lilian Garratt-smithson
  • "The Wi-fi Womb," by Avi Burton
  • "And Every Galatea Shaped Anew" by Marissa Lingen
  • "People Of The Consortium Worlds V. Rax, God Of Misery" by Leonard Richardson
  • "Mammoth" by C.l. Schacht
  • "The Riches We Take" by Sam W. Pisciotta
  • "Earth’s Last Library" by James Van Pelt
  • "Cobalt Plate Special" by Jon Hansen
  • "The Underappreciation Of Danny White" by David Ebenbach
  • "Chalice" by James L. Cambias
  • "The Mountain At The Heart Of The Labyrinth" by Deborah L. Davitt

Poetry

  • "Constructs" by Thomas Belton
  • "Irrational Faith" by Richard Schiffman

Nonfiction

  • Out Of “some Warm Little Pond,” Part Ii: Bios And The Last Universal Common Ancestor by Kelly Lagor
  • Guest Editorial: A Matrix And (At Least Three) Curves by Howard V. Hendrix
  • Unknowns: Noble Guesses by Alec Nevala-lee
  • The Alternate View by John G. Cramer
  • In Times To Come
  • The Reference Library by Rosemary Claire Smith
  • Brass Tacks

Asimov's Science Fiction (Vol. 49 Nos. 11 & 12, November/December 2025)

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Fiction

  • "Spare Parts for the Mind" by Greg Egan
  • "Because It’s There" by Susan Shwartz
  • "Lagrange Point 5" by Sean McMullen
  • "Solemnity" by Mark D. Jacobsen
  • "Miiracle" by Tegan Moore
  • "Mudfoots" by Eric Del Carlo
  • "The Recovery of Lemuria 7" by Allen M. Steele
  • "Within God" by Garrett Ashley
  • "Can You Outrun a T-Rex?" by Sean Monaghan
  • "Catch a Tiger in the Snow" by Ray Nayler

Poetry

  • "Good Dogs" by Leslie J. Anderson
  • "Inheritance Haiku" by Bruce Boston
  • "My Flintstones Thermos, 1962" by Rob Loughran
  • "Field Note from an Outlier Physicist" by Robert Frazier
  • "What We Learn from Quantum Mechanics" by Fred D. White
  • "Almost Immortal" by Bruce Boston
  • "The Paper Swift" by Ciarán Parkes

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: 39th Annual Readers’ Awards’ Results by Sheila Williams
  • Reflections: Science Fiction Predicts the Future by Robert Silverberg
  • On the Net: Coverage by James Patrick Kelly
  • On Books by Peter Heck

Augur Magazine (8.2, )

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Fiction

  • "Liminal Spaces" by Azure Arther 
  • "Four Elements of the Affair" by Britt Gillman
  • "Unrepeat: an incantation" by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal
  • "What's Mine" by Lulu Kadhim
  • "Mother Tree's Idols" by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
  • "Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers" by A.J. Van Belle
  • "For Godzilla" by Qurat Dar
  • "The Thunder Boy" by Cathy Smith
  • "Mother Tongue" by Pooja Joshi
  • "Detritivore" by Binoy Zuzarte
  • "Of Blood and Pomegranates" by Saad Omar Khan
  • "Red Cliff" by Eva Haas
  • "The Event Horizon of Honey" by Braydon Beaulieu

Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 230, November 2025)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

The Dark (Issue 126, November 2025)

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Fiction

Dark Horses Magazine (Issue 46, November 2026)

Fiction

  • "Only Time Will Tell" by Alice Baburek
  • "Passerine" by Melanie Hamon
  • "Red Hunger" by Kidron Grifter
  • "Sap Of Eternal Satisfaction" by Daniela Tabrea
  • "Dead Of Night: Tool" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
  • "To Quell A Phoenix" by Nicholas Samuel Stember
  • "Toll Road" by Sylke Lesinski
  • "Our Discontent" by Paul Cesarini
  • "The Mask Maker’s Imagination" by Hayden Kanicki
  • "Watchdog" by Jaryd Porter

The Deadlands (Issue 40, Fall 2025)

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Fiction

Flash Fiction Online (Issue 146, November 2025)

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Fiction

  • “Ursula” by E.M. Linden
  • “The Last Oftun in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen
  • “A Proper Mother, Unhexed” by Ashlee Lhamon
  • “Unfinished Conversations Package” by Chris Baker
  • “The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter” by Kate Horsley
  • “Loxley Is One Thousand Bats” by Camsyn Clair
  • “Gifts from On High” by V.H. Chen, and
  • “Hope Is the Thing with Circuits and Steel”” by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska

Future Tense Fiction (November 2026)

Fiction

Nonfiction

GigaNotoSaurus (November 2026)

Nonfiction

Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 186, November 2025)

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Fiction

  • "Thaw" by An Owomoyela
  • "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss
  • "How to Set Up Your Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu (11/6)
  • "In the Zone" by Lisa M. Bradley (11/6)
  • "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette (11/13)
  • "Beneath the Umdlebe Tree; or, A Vegetable Love Story" by Modupeoluwa Shelle (11/13)
  • "Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (11/20)
  • "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu (11/20)
  • "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W. D. Buxton (11/27)
  • "The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta (11/27)

Nonfiction

  • Book Review: The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely by Chris Kluwe
  • Author Spotlight: Lisa M. Bradley by Alex Puncekar (11/6)
  • Book Review: The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa by Arley Sorg and Melissa A Watkins (11/6)
  • Book Review: Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World by Cullen Bunn by Chris Kluwe (11/13)
  • Author Spotlight: Nina Kiriki Hoffman by Delia Cullity (11/20)
  • Author Spotlight: Tina S. Zhu by A Humphrey Lanham (11/20)
  • Book Review: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei by Wendy N. Wagner (11/20)
  • Author Spotlight: Joel W. D. Buxton by Erik Grove (11/27)

Nightmare Magazine (Issue 158, November 2025)

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Fiction

  • "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" by James L. Sutter (11/5)
  • "Primordium" by Erica Ruppert (11/12)
  • "Bleed for Me, Bro" by Sharang Biswas (11/19)

Poetry

  • "Futakuchi onna speaks of the Kamaitachi" by Betsy Aoki (11/26)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: November 2025 by Wendy N. Wagner (11/5)
  • Author Spotlight: James L. Sutter by Carrie Finch (11/5)
  • The H Word: The Forest’s Quiet Hunger for Your Soul by Samuel Peters (11/12)
  • Author Spotlight: Sharang Biswas by Clay Vermulm (11/19)
  • Plumbing the Depths: When Scientists Go Mad—Ghost-Hunting and Horror by Lisa Morton (11/26)

Small Wonders Magazine (Issue 29, November 2025)

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Fiction

Strange Horizons (November 2025)

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Fiction

Poetry

Reviews

The Sunday Morning Transport (November 2025)

Fiction

Uncanny Magazine (Issue 67, November/December 2025)

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Fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

Check back at the end of the month: I'll update the links to the stories that haven't come out at the time of publication. As always, let me and your fellow readers know in the comments what stories stood out for you!