Table of Contents: June 2025

Here's a rundown of this month's latest short fiction

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Last month, I kicked off a new monthly series for this newsletter, Table of Contents, which will round up the short fiction that's coming out from authors all over the SF genre. Here's the next installment for June 2025.

All of these publications work on their own schedule, so there's going to be a little variation from month to month. I'm including issues that cover the month of June, so there are some from last month with May/June issues (like Apex, Asimovs, Uncanny, etc.), and not all issues will have links to the stories right away: some publications stagger their releases throughout the month. When I begin work on the next installment, I'll go through and add in the links that have come online.

While we're talking about short fiction, check out the piece I sent out last week: they look at the future of 1 Paragraph's holdings (Asimovs, Analog, and F&SF). Hopefully, we'll be able to include links to all of their stories later this summer.

You can check out last month's installment here. Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Apex Magazine (May/June 2025, Issue 149)

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Fiction

"Shadows Below Seaway Trains" by Ai Jiang
"I Remember a One-Sided Die" by Francis Bass (5/6)
"Seven Ribbons" by Beth Goder
"Heart Seeds" by E. Thede (5/20)
"Lies As the Natural State of Things" by Rich Larson (6/3)
"To Kill a Language" by Rukman Ragas (Flash fiction)
"Extenta" by Daniel Roop (flash fiction, 5/13)
"Things the Older Boy Understands" by Sierra Branham (flash fiction, 6/10)
"As It Comes" by Derek Alan Jones
"Swan Song" by Liam Hogan (5/27)
"The Fifth Horseman" by Cressida Roe (6/24)
"The Liberation of Brother Buffalo" by Michael Boatman (5/1)
"The Neighbors" by L. Marie Wood (6/5)

Nonfiction

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
"Readers & Role-play: Experiencing Your Favorite Stories Through Play" by Semaj Saint Garbutt (4/29)
"Perfection, And the Bridges Between" by Eugen Bacon (6/17)
Words for Thought (Short Fiction Review) by A.C. Wise (5/15)
Book Review of One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson (Leah Ning)
Book Review of A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang (Leah Ning)
Author Ai Jiang (Marissa van Uden)
Author Francis Bass (Marissa van Uden) (5/8)
Artist Yorgos Cotronis (Bradley Powers)

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (May/June 2025, Vol. XCV)

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Fiction

"Bluebeard Womb" by M.G. Wills (Novella) [Excerpt]
"Isolate" by Tom R. Pike (Novelette) [Excerpt]
"And So Greenpeace Invented the Death Ray..." by C. Stuart Hardwick (Novelette)
"The Scientist's Book of the Dead" by Gregor Hartmann (Novelette)
"Interconnections and Porous Boundaries" by Lance Robinson (Novelette)
"The Robot and the Winding Woods" by Brenda Cooper (Short story)
"Outside of the Robles Line" by Raymund Eich (Short story)
"Retail is Dying" by David Lee Zweifler & Ronan Zweifler (Short story)
"Groundling" by Shane Tourtellotte (Short story)
"North American Union V. Exergy-Petroline Corporation" by Tiffany Fritz (Short story)
"Short Selling the Statistical Life" by C.H. Irons (Short story)
"Momentum Exchange" by Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt (Short story)
"Mnemonomie" by Mark W. Tiedemann (Short story)
"Methods of Remediation in Nearshore Ecologies" by Joanne Rixon
"Siegfried Howls Against the Void" by Erik Johnson (Short story)
"The Iceberg" by Michael Capobianco (Short story)
"Amtech Deep Sea Institute Thanks You For Your Donation" by Kelsey Hutton (Flash fiction)
"The Shape of Care" by Lynne Sargent (Flash fiction)
First Contact, Already Seen" by Howard V. Hendrix (Flash fiction)
"Data Corrupted" by Bruce Boston (Poetry)
"Homecoming" by Brian Hugenbruch (Poetry)

Nonfiction

The Day Seems as Long as a Year by Kevin Walsh
Guest Editorial: Our Lost Earth Days by Howard V. Hendrix
The Alternative View: Banishing the “Inflaton” From the Early Universe, John G. Cramer
Guest Alternative View by Richard A. Lovett
The Reference Library by Sean CW Korsgaard
Brass Tacks

Asimov's Science Fiction (May/June 2025, Vol. 49)

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Fiction

"The Hunt for Lemuria 7" by Allen M. Steele (Novella) [Excerpt]
"Quantum Ghosts (Part II)" by Nancy Kress (Novella)
"The Passage" by John Richard Trtek (Novella)
"The Fight Goes On" by Harry Turtledove (Novelette)
"The Tin Man’s Ghost" by Ray Nayler (Novelette)
"Trial by Harry" by Michael Libling (Novelette)
"In the Forest of Mechanical Trees" by Steve Rasnic Tem (Short story)
"The Humming of Tamed Dragons" by A.M. Dellamonica (Short story)
"Woolly" by Carrie Vaughn (Short story) [Excerpt]
"Baggus Plasticus" by Ciarán Parkes (Poetry)
"Introducing My Friends to My Dad" by Chiwenite Onyekwelu (Poetry)
"Stellarium" by Stuart Greenhouse (Poetry)
"Micro Circuit" by Sai Liuko (Poetry)
"Train" by David Rogers (Poetry)

Nonfiction

Guest Editorial: The Writes of Spring by Rick Wilber
Reflections: The Other Schliemann by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: Moonshots by James Patrick Kelly
Thought Experiment: Crime and Punishment in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange by Kelly Lagor
On Books by Kelly Jennings