Andy Weir Short Stories

Andy Weir, a novelist best known for his Science Fiction novel, The Martian, is a self-proclaimed space nerd. While he was working on his writing, he paid his bills with a day job as a software engineer.

Recently, a collection of his short stories became available on audible. If this is your first introduction to Andy Weir, it may take two or three stories for you to align with his style. But once you get it, you will discover it is really worthwhile.

While The Egg is the most popular short story to come from this collection in a viral sense, the seminal work is Annie's Day. You can read it here. It is so well crafted that it is worth reading and re-reading.

The other stories then, share a similar construct. Weir's mechanism. And it works. These short stories are masterful. Ranging in length from 900-1500 words. Efficient. Clever. Rewarding.

Any of the stories could be consumed within 10-15 minutes, but they linger on in the mind. Andy Weir creates worlds that are not elaborately communicated. Instead, Weir plants the seeds for the readers to incubate these worlds. It is akin to a software engineer installing a small program of only a few lines of code that will eventually utilize much of the Processor's resources.