Think Weirder Volume 1: The Year's Best Science Fiction Ideas

The major science fiction magazines publish hundreds of science fiction stories every year. For this first volume of Think Weirder, Editor Joe Stech evaluated 391 stories published in 2024 and selected the sixteen best concept-driven, near-future ideas about people interacting with technology. Each story is a new way of seeing the world.

The selections in this volume include award-winning stories and both well-known and emerging authors:

• Death and the Gorgon by Greg Egan
• The Best Version of Yourself by Grant Collier
• Twenty-Four Hours by H.H. Pak
• Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling by David W. Goodman
• Nine Billion Turing Tests by Chris Willrich
• Stars Don't Dream by Chi Hui, translated by John Chu
• A Gray Magic by Ray Nayler
• Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
• The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video by Thomas Ha
• Our Chatbots Said 'I Love You,' Shall We Meet? by Caroline M. Yoachim
• Breathing Constellations by Rich Larson
• The Lark Ascending by Eleanna Castroianni
• Driver by Sameem Siddiqui
• How to Remember Perfectly by Eric Schwitzgebel
• LuvHome™ by Resa Nelson
• Money, Wealth, and Soil by Lance Robinson