ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction

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Release Date 11/18/25

A must-read annual showcase of the best nature-based science fiction and fantasy short stories published around the world every year.

Speculative ecofiction has a long history, but ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction is the first ever anthology series to collect the finest short stories published in this genre each year.

Featuring works by both rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity's relationship with other species and of our communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world—all told through the lens of the fantastic.

Ranging from literary science fiction and magical realism to dark fantasy and climate fiction, each story is a unique snapshot of how some of the most brilliant and imaginative speculative-fiction authors writing today are engaging with this extraordinary time in Earth's natural history.

The vibrant lineup for the inaugural edition, selected by award-winning editor and anthologist Marissa van Uden and a team of passionate ecofiction judges from hundreds of nominations, includes works by Eugen Bacon, E. Catherine Tobler, Hiron Ennes, K-Ming Chang, Kay Vaindal, Kelsea Yu, Renan Bernardo, and many other incredible talents.

Table of Contents

"In the Field" — Shelly Jones
"The Water Runner" — Eugen Bacon
"Ama's Jungle" — K-Ming Chang
"A Seder in Siberia" — Louis Evans
"Love, Scotland" — E.M. Faulds
"Our Best Selves" — Hiron Ennes
"The Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl" — Nika Murphy
"Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'" — F.E. Choe
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet" — Adeline Wong
"The Last Library" — Joshua Jones Lofflin
"Bodies" — Cat McMahan
"Pig House" — Kay Vaindal
"The Plasticity of Being" — Renan Bernardo
"Batter and Pearl" — Steph Kwiatkowski
"Parasite's Grief" — Katharine Tyndall
"Skittering Within" — Kelsea Yu
"To Drive the Cold Winter Away" — E. Catherine Tobler
"One with the Ground" — Guillermo G. Mendoza
"We the People Excluding I" — Osahon Ize-Iyamu
"Father Time Dares You to Dream" — Trae Hawkins
"Birdseed" — Matthew Freeman
"The Colonists" — Jennifer Hudak 
"Mangrove Daughter" — E.M. Linden

Editor Bio

Marissa van Uden is a writer, editor, and nature-lover originally from Aotearoa New Zealand but now based in Vermont, where she lives in a little cabin in the woods overlooking a beaver pond. As an anthologist, her credits include the award-winning The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird and the Strange Microfiction anthology series (Strange Libations, Strange Machines, and Strange Locations). Her short stories have been published in Vastarien Literary Journal, Dark Matter Magazine, and Small Wonders, among others. You can find her at bluesky @marissavu.bsky.social; instagram @marissa.vu, or at marissavu.com.