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Little Blue Marble
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Speculative climate fiction and poetry for our changing world
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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).
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Meta AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers
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August 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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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...
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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June 12, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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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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June 14, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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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

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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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June 8, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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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...
May 3, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Little Blue Marble caps off 2023 with "The First and Last Concert of Avalonia Jemison's Peace Lily" by Matt Bliss

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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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December 29, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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Our last Friday poem of the year is a haiku by Lisa Taylor.
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#poetry #haiku #climatecrisis
Haiku - Little Blue Marble
Climate poetry by Lisa Taylor | a wave of sadness where once water flowed freely ...
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December 22, 2023 at 7:54 PM
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This New Fiction Friday asks you to "Pity the Squonk," by Kathryn Yelinek.
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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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December 15, 2023 at 7:33 PM
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LBM is featured this week on @deborahldavitt.bsky.social's Shining Moon podcast! Find out all about editor Kat's process.
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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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December 9, 2023 at 8:58 PM
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This Friday's feature proposes the idea of "Extinction Memorials." By Christopher Mark Rose.
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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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December 8, 2023 at 11:27 PM
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New Fiction Friday takes entrepreneurs to a different kind of venture forum, the "Snail Tank" by Monica Joyce Evans
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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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December 1, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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This Friday's poem laments a "Shipwrecked Earth" by Wade Thiel
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#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePoetry
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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November 24, 2023 at 7:16 PM
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Today's new fiction reminisces about the one that got away (or did it?) over a "Martian Blue" by Keira Reynolds
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#ClimateFiction #SFF #ShortStories
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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November 18, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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In this Friday's poem, Mike Morgan asks you to "Choose Your Own Extinction"
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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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November 10, 2023 at 2:02 PM
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Fiction Friday's desert enclave is "Drawing the Line" by Gustavo Bondoni
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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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November 3, 2023 at 9:42 PM
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New Fiction Friday provides new perspective in "The Prairie School" by Christopher R. Muscato
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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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October 27, 2023 at 7:44 PM
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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...
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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October 14, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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Fiction Friday takes to the desert with "The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza" by Masimba Musodza
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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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October 20, 2023 at 7:22 PM
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Friday poetry sends out a beam of light in "A poem for retired lighthouses" by Catherine Rockwood.

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#ClimateCrisis #Poetry
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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October 13, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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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!
October 6, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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In the face of all the latest climate news, New Fiction Friday tends towards "Catastrophizing" by Katie McIvor (@mckatie.bsky.social)
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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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October 6, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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LBM's last September poem is "Rising Death" by C. J. Carter-Stephenson
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#ClimatePoetry #poetry #ClimateCrisis
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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September 30, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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New Fiction Friday answers the question "Is anybody out there?" in "Returnal" by Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social)

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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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September 22, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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It's Friday, which means we have new poetry for you! "120° in the Shade" by Susan Lee Simpson
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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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September 15, 2023 at 7:20 PM
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New Fiction Friday remediates "A Lot Full of Weeds" by T. K. Rex

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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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September 8, 2023 at 10:07 PM