Twelve Tomorrows 2014

Probably the best scifi anthology I’ve read this year, and that includes Hieroglyph and War Stories. Bruce Sterling and MIT team up to put together a collection of hot short fiction. Where it’s on, it’s really on, and the stories open with strong offerings from Lauren Beukes (Zoo City), Christopher Brown, and Pat Cadigan. Even the misses are solid stories in their own right.

Since this is the MIT Technology Review, it’s interesting to see what’s hot and what’s out. Drones and the Internet of Things are very in; likewise biotech, hacking, and using biotech to hack the human condition. Nation-states are out, intelligence agencies are in. Big money is still here, Horatio Alger is dead in an unmarked grave. Sharp, spooky, and insightful, these are the scifi stories you should be reading this year.