Lists Best of 2025 Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 What an excellent year for speculative fiction — in all its many forms! By Reactor | Published on December 19, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share What an excellent year for science fiction, fantasy, and horror! For the first time, we asked for your favorite genre books, TV shows, movies, video games, and more from 2025. A book cover that caught your eye. A short story you couldn’t get out of your head. That movie you saw two, three, maybe even four times in theaters!  We received over 600 responses, even beating out our previous readers’ poll on the Most Iconic Speculative Fiction of the 21st Century. Among your responses, we recognized some stories and media the Reactor team already adores, and found a few new ones as well.  At the end of the day, we love celebrating genre fiction. But we love it more when you celebrate it with us! Favorite Books of 2025 The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit) A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books) Favorite Movies of 2025 Sinners dir. by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros. Pictures) KPop Demon Hunters dir. by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans (Sony Pictures Animation / Netflix) Superman dir. by James Gunn (Warner Bros. Pictures) Favorite TV Series of 2025 Murderbot (Apple TV) Andor Season Two (Disney+) Pluribus (Apple TV) Favorite Short Stories of 2025 “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by Martha Wells (Reactor) “The Emergency Contact” by Arendse Lund (Analog) “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For” by Cameron Reed (Reactor) “The Knight and the Butcherbird” by Alix E. Harrow (Amazon Original Stories) Favorite Video Games of 2025 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive) Hades II (Supergiant Games) Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry) Favorite SFF Podcasts of 2025 Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow Starship Alexandria by Emma Newman and Adrian Tchaikovsky Worlds Beyond Number by Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, Taylor Moore, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Lou Wilson Favorite Video Creator/Channels of 2025 Critical Role NewlyNova BooksandLala Elliot Brooks  Jacob Geller Literature Science Alliance My Name is Marines Quinn’s Ideas Favorite Book Covers of 2025 Katabasis by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager; cover art by Patrick Arrasmith) Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom Publishing; cover art by Eric Nyquist) The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager; cover design by Owen Corrigan) The post Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 appeared first on Reactor.