Little Blue Marble 2020

 An anthology of speculative climate fiction and poetry by authors from around the world.

Fishing for ghosts. Saving the Agassiz Icefield.

A new North strong and sustainable.

Robot mermaids with lasers.

Teenage solar rogues. Activist archivists.

The Queen of the May and the protean Lord of the Sea, struggling to cope with changes large and small.

A future West both weird and wild.

These greener futures hold all this and more.

Little Blue Marble 2020 is a speculative climate fiction anthology of the collected stories and poems Little Blue Marble magazine published in 2020.



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Anthology Table of Contents:



INTRODUCTION

QUEEN OF THE MAY • F. E. Clark

THE DESERT IN ME • Priya Chand

THE WOLF BOYS OF WIDE RIVER COUNTY • Eileen Gunnell Lee

GREEN-UP ON AISLE 13 • Sarina Dorie

SEEING CLEARLY • Marie Vibbert

THE PINECONE LADY • Jo Miles

POWER TO THE PEOPLE • Kiera Lesley

THE KNELLS OF AGASSIZ • Holly Schofield

GOOD HUNTING • M. Darusha Wehm

SOLITUDE, IN SILENT SUN • Mike Adamson

GHOST FISHING • William Delman

DIGITAL PYRE • A. P. Howell

CHOOSE YOUR BATTLEGROUND • Andrew Leon Hudson

MOTHER NATURE • John Grey

THE HEAVENLY DREAMS OF MECHANICAL TREES • Wendy Nikel

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD COME AFTER • J. Bear McKenna

STORIES AND SECOND CHANCES • Tamoha Sengupta

EXHIBIT E • L. P. Melling

URGENT CARE • Mark S. Bailen

AN APOLOGY FROM THE NATIVES OF EARTH • Jon Lasser

WHEN LAST THE CICADAS SANG • Anthony W. Eichenlaub

ENCROACHMENT • Floris M. Kleijne

LITTLE GOATS • Clio Velentza

NEW SNOW • Christopher Mark Rose

FIELD TRIP • L. X. Beckett




Editor bio:



Katrina Archer is the author of dark fantasy The Tree of Souls and YA fantasy Untalented. A former software engineer, she lives on her sailboat in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Katrina has worked in aerospace, video games, and film, and is a freelance copy editor and publisher of climate change site Little Blue Marble. She also writes spicy contemporary romance under the pen name Saskia Laine.
Katrina’s work was a 2016 Library Journal Indie Ebook Awards Honorable Mention (Young Adult). She is an alumnus of the Viable Paradise and Paradise Lost writing workshops, and a member of SFWA and Codex Writers.
She can operate almost any vehicle that can’t fly, doesn’t believe in life without books or chocolate, and was once owned by a cat more famous in Germany than she is.
Connect with Katrina online at www.katrinaarcher.com.