Think Weirder Volume 2
(2026)(The second book in the Think Weirder series)
An anthology of stories edited by Joe Stech
The year's most mind-expanding science fiction.
Think Weirder Volume 2 collects the best concept-driven science fiction of 2025: near-future stories about people interacting with technology and ideas.
This second volume features Thomas Ha's "In My Country," winner of the 2026 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Short Story, alongside stories by Tia Tashiro, Isabel J. Kim, Rich Larson, and Peter Watts that were finalists for the Hugo, Locus, and Sturgeon Awards.
It also includes Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Human Resources," set in the same world as his Hugo-finalist novel Service Model, and Greg Egan's "Spare Parts for the Mind," a novella shortlisted for the Asimov's Readers' Award.
Inside:
- A dating app tells a woman's ex-husband he's a 97% match with her clone.
- An emergent macro-intelligence arises from the connection between human brains.
- A woman who sells her gut biome for a living learns that tissue stops being yours once it leaves your body.
- A pregnancy-tracking chip interrupts a false miscarriage to offer a subscription upgrade.
- The afterlife, priced to fit your insurance budget.
- A company that has shed virtually all of its humans.
- Contracts that send information back from the future.
Contents
"The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts
"Spare Parts for the Mind" by Greg Egan
"Missing Helen" by Tia Tashiro
"Human Resources" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim
"In My Country" by Thomas Ha
"Shorted" by Alex Irvine
"The Sack of Burley Cottage" by Rich Larson
"Reality Check" by Nancy Kress
"Five Impossible Things" by Koji A. Dae
"The Wi-Fi Womb" by Avi Burton
"The Signal and the Idler" by Ted Kosmatka
"Aperture" by Alexander Jablokov
"The New Shape of Care" by Lynne Sargent
"Rust" by David D. Levine
"Hidden Achievement" by Shane Tourtellotte
"Jennifer Does Pushups" by Joseph Weber
Edited by Joe Stech.
Genre: Science Fiction
Think Weirder Volume 2 collects the best concept-driven science fiction of 2025: near-future stories about people interacting with technology and ideas.
This second volume features Thomas Ha's "In My Country," winner of the 2026 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Short Story, alongside stories by Tia Tashiro, Isabel J. Kim, Rich Larson, and Peter Watts that were finalists for the Hugo, Locus, and Sturgeon Awards.
It also includes Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Human Resources," set in the same world as his Hugo-finalist novel Service Model, and Greg Egan's "Spare Parts for the Mind," a novella shortlisted for the Asimov's Readers' Award.
Inside:
- A dating app tells a woman's ex-husband he's a 97% match with her clone.
- An emergent macro-intelligence arises from the connection between human brains.
- A woman who sells her gut biome for a living learns that tissue stops being yours once it leaves your body.
- A pregnancy-tracking chip interrupts a false miscarriage to offer a subscription upgrade.
- The afterlife, priced to fit your insurance budget.
- A company that has shed virtually all of its humans.
- Contracts that send information back from the future.
Contents
"The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts
"Spare Parts for the Mind" by Greg Egan
"Missing Helen" by Tia Tashiro
"Human Resources" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim
"In My Country" by Thomas Ha
"Shorted" by Alex Irvine
"The Sack of Burley Cottage" by Rich Larson
"Reality Check" by Nancy Kress
"Five Impossible Things" by Koji A. Dae
"The Wi-Fi Womb" by Avi Burton
"The Signal and the Idler" by Ted Kosmatka
"Aperture" by Alexander Jablokov
"The New Shape of Care" by Lynne Sargent
"Rust" by David D. Levine
"Hidden Achievement" by Shane Tourtellotte
"Jennifer Does Pushups" by Joseph Weber
Edited by Joe Stech.
Genre: Science Fiction
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