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Speculative climate fiction and poetry for our changing world

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Katrina Archer @katrinaarcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
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Meta AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...
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One More Call for Support | Reckoning
I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise ...
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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
DreamForge enters its Pledge Drive next week, and that means a new Kickstarter. The first thing you can do to support us is visit our Preview Page and click to follow.  That will help the algorithm push out the message. So, follow if you can!  And Thanks. kck.st/3XupZ6W
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
William Anders took the photo from which Little Blue Marble’s name is inspired. What I didn’t know is that he spent his last years in Washington state, and died only a few miles from my home across the Canadian border. We only have one home for all of us www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
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William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who took Earthrise photo, killed in plane crash | CBC News
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Climate Imaginarium is a new consortium of climate organizations with a center for the arts on Governors Island, NY. They are seeking previously published climate fiction, non-fiction or climate poetry. To submit, fill out this form by May 6: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Little Blue Marble caps off 2023 with "The First and Last Concert of Avalonia Jemison's Peace Lily" by Matt Bliss littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/29/t...
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The First and Last Concert of Avalonia Jemison’s Peace Lily - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Matt Bliss | Avalonia Jemison walks into the Plaza restaurant only a day before the event, wearing the brisk confidence usually reserved ...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Our last Friday poem of the year is a haiku by Lisa Taylor. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/22/h... #poetry #haiku #climatecrisis
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Haiku - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Lisa Taylor | a wave of sadness where once water flowed freely ...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
This New Fiction Friday asks you to "Pity the Squonk," by Kathryn Yelinek. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/15/p...
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Pity the Squonk - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Kathryn Yelinek | The woods were my sanctuary, my cathedral, and goodness knows I needed a refuge that spring. Every day brought more bad news
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
LBM is featured this week on @deborahldavitt.bsky.social's Shining Moon podcast! Find out all about editor Kat's process. shiningmoon.buzzsprout.com/2222860/1403...
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Shining Moon Episode 21: Editors and Editing III - Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast
Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 21. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to be a magazine editor in this day and age—particularly when...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
This Friday's feature proposes the idea of "Extinction Memorials." By Christopher Mark Rose. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/08/e...
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Extinction Memorials - Little Blue Marble
A climate essay by Christopher Mark Rose | I remember coming to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, in its place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
New Fiction Friday takes entrepreneurs to a different kind of venture forum, the "Snail Tank" by Monica Joyce Evans littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/01/s...
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Snail Tank - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Monica Joyce Evans | The restaurant was blue, like the whole place had been doused in artificial water, and Noma didn’t like it. She clutched
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
This Friday's poem laments a "Shipwrecked Earth" by Wade Thiel littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/24/s... #ClimateCrisis #ClimatePoetry
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Shipwrecked Earth - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Wade Thiel | You look to me with bloodshot eyes. You look to me Through opaque, plastic lenses For help, But I can’t help But feel helpless.
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Today's new fiction reminisces about the one that got away (or did it?) over a "Martian Blue" by Keira Reynolds littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/18/m... #ClimateFiction #SFF #ShortStories
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Martian Blue - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Keira Reynolds | “I could have had it all once, you know,” she said, between sips of Martian Blue. “The big house back on Mars, the private shuttle
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
In this Friday's poem, Mike Morgan asks you to "Choose Your Own Extinction" littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/10/c...
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Choose Your Own Extinction - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Mike Morgan | Hear us | scream beg | in terror in pain in silence | as we | choke vomit grieve rage
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Fiction Friday's desert enclave is "Drawing the Line" by Gustavo Bondoni littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/03/d...
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Drawing the Line - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Gustavo Bondoni | Yevgeny cursed under his breath. Philippa smiled. “Things not going to plan?” the elderly woman asked. “Things never
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
New Fiction Friday provides new perspective in "The Prairie School" by Christopher R. Muscato littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/27/t...
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The Prairie School - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Christopher R. Muscato | It’s all … lines. Penny lowers her sketchbook and looks at her campfire. It flickers, catching the breeze.
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
New poem now up at @littlebluemarble.bsky.social, featuring what happens when the ridiculous pirate show you're fixated on makes you think about lighthouses, and then lighthouses move out into the rest of your life with the things you love and fear for most. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/13/a...
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A poem for retired lighthouses - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Catherine Rockwood | Increasingly abandoned as coastlines alter and heated waves beat harder rhythms. Anyone’s, for a song
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Fiction Friday takes to the desert with "The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza" by Masimba Musodza littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/t...
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The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Masimba Musodza | The sound of the men and women working outside snatched him from that surreal world between a dream and reality.
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Friday poetry sends out a beam of light in "A poem for retired lighthouses" by Catherine Rockwood. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/13/a... #ClimateCrisis #Poetry
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A poem for retired lighthouses - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Catherine Rockwood | Increasingly abandoned as coastlines alter and heated waves beat harder rhythms. Anyone’s, for a song
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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
I'm so grateful to see 'Catastrophizing' up at Little Blue Marble! This story includes a lot of things that are close to my heart, including climate anxiety and my home city of Edinburgh 💚 💙 please give it a read and let me know what you think!
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
In the face of all the latest climate news, New Fiction Friday tends towards "Catastrophizing" by Katie McIvor (@mckatie.bsky.social) littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/06/c...
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Catastrophizing - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Katie McIvor | It isn’t always the water that frightens me. When the floods lap below George IV Bridge, the Old Town drowning ...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
LBM's last September poem is "Rising Death" by C. J. Carter-Stephenson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/30/r... #ClimatePoetry #poetry #ClimateCrisis
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Rising Death - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by C. J. Carter-Stephenson | The killer to be, Her infinitely varied blues Muted to black By the midnight sky, Dances slowly, rhythmically
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
New Fiction Friday answers the question "Is anybody out there?" in "Returnal" by Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/22/r...
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Returnal - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Ben Lockwood | It’s March again, and with the drizzling grey comes the thirty-fifth anniversary of the return of our vessel
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
It's Friday, which means we have new poetry for you! "120° in the Shade" by Susan Lee Simpson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/15/1...
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120° in the Shade - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Susan Lee Simpson | It’s summer in the southwest when talk about the changing weather gets hot when resistance weakens
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
New Fiction Friday remediates "A Lot Full of Weeds" by T. K. Rex littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/08/a...
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A Lot Full of Weeds - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by T. K. Rex | Sometimes, especially days the air was easy to breathe, I liked to walk all the way down to Golden Gate Park ...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
We're kicking off our new *weekly* publishing schedule with "Veni Vidi Vici," a poem by Patrick Johnson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/01/v... #ClimatePoetry #ClimateCrisis #poetry
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
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The people of Ecuador just made climate justice history. The world can follow | Steven Donziger
Voters won a huge battle with the oil industry – proving that we can’t save the planet without robust democracy
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
There is now less than a month to go until our Sept 22nd deadline for submissions to Reckoning 8! The theme, in a word, is resistance. We pay 10c/word for prose, $50/page for poetry and art. Guidelines: reckoning.press/reckoning-8-...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
This New Fiction Friday luxuriates in the meticulously plotted dismantling of "Microclimates of the Rich and Famous" by R. K. Duncan littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/25/m...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Since Meta is blocking news links in Canada, I'll just post this here, shall I? www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat
Big corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
New Fiction Friday by Dan Peacock wonders what "The Smiling Virologist" has to be happy about. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/11/the-…
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The Smiling Virologist - Little Blue Marble
SAMUEL BURNS is a tall, thin man who seems nervous in front of the cameras. He fiddles with the wire linking the mic that is clipped onto his shirt, and one foot taps quietly but frantically on the fl...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
It's the Very Last Day! $20 gets you scads of great reads from so many fantastic indie authors and publishers, plus all charity contributions go to Renegade Relief Runners and their amazing humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Don't miss out! storybundle.com/anthology (reposts appreciated)
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
Only 3 more days to get this awesome StoryBundle before it's gone forever! Don't miss out! Charity proceeds go to Renegade Relief Runners' humanitarian relief in Ukraine. storybundle.com/anthology
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Only 7 more days before this bundle disappears! Charity contributions go to Renegade Relief Runners, on-the-ground humanitarian relief in Ukraine! storybundle.com/anthology
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
This Fiction Friday, Louis Evans throws "One Last Bash before We All Hit the Road" littlebluemarble.ca/2023/07/28/one-…
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One Last Bash Before We All Hit the Road - Little Blue Marble
Climate fiction by Louis Evans | The Ball at the End of the World existed at that narrow intersection of refined taste, decadent excess, and ...
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Little Blue Marble @littlebluemarble.bsky.social · 21/07/2023
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Katrina Archer @katrinaarcher.bsky.social · 21/07/2023
Support Little Blue Marble AND a great charity (Renegade Relief Runners, doing essential humanitarian relief in Ukraine) by buying The Explore Sci-Fi Worlds StoryBundle. 11 anthologies and collections, 116 amazing authors, limited time only July 19 – Aug 10. storybundle.com/anthology
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