Joe Stech
thinkweirder.com
Joe Stech
@thinkweirder.com
Pronounced Stek. Publishes Think Weirder: The Year's Best Science Fiction Ideas
After finishing Echopraxia, this is the first thing I see in the "Notes and References" section:

"I am naked as I type this. I was naked writing the whole damn book."

Bravo, Peter Watts. Superbly played.
February 4, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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My latest @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Three Fortunes on Alcestis…’ is out today! It’s available to read for free online right here:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_26/

It’s about a tyrant and a soldier and a baby. With bonus fortune-telling and bonus bad-tempered alien goats.
February 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Oh hey, is there a new Morag and Seamus story out?

There is!

Check out a cozy post-apocalyptic take on the legend of Tam Lin here:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_02_26/
The Iron Piper by Fiona Moore
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop
February 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I feel that this is an appropriate first bluesky post: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-bu...

This is the level of seriousness you can expect from me going forward
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM