Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate: Little Blue Marble, #1

By M. Darusha Wehm, Anatoly Belilovsky, Alex Shvartsman and 6 more

Now in a single collection by editor Katrina Archer, get all of the short climate fiction published by Little Blue Marble in 2017. 

M. Darusha Wehm shows us our blue marble as viewed from Mars. Anatoly Belilovsky meditates on family and love in a drowned future Ireland. Alex Shvartsman controls the weather. Robert Dawson evokes the nostalgia of a child for gas-powered cars. Holly Schofield highlights wildlife in distress with an allegory of clowns. Liam Hogan takes the slacker's doctrine to its logical extreme. Matt Colborn's toaster fixes the planet. William Delman gives us quiet persistence in the face of disaster. And Ariel Bolton investigates the plight of refugees from the North Pole.

Get inspired to change our climate for the better with stories from these distinctive voices of speculative fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ganache Media
• Release date: Jan 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781988293004

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

2017 Ganache Media ePub edition

Compilation copyright © 2017 by Katrina Archer

Summertime copyright © 2015 by Anatoly Belilovsky. Originally published in SF Comet

Preventative Maintenance copyright © 2017 by M. Darusha Wehm. Originally published in Little Blue Marble

A Distant Honk copyright © 2016 by Holly Schofield. Originally published in Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix

Dust and Blue Smoke copyright © 2014 by Robert Dawson. Originally published in Colored Lens

Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables copyright © 2017 Alex Shvartsman. Originally published in Daily Science Fiction

Easy copyright © 2017 by Liam Hogan. Originally published in Little Blue Marble

When Appliances Go Green copyright © 2013 by Matt Colborn. Originally published in Universe 2 Magazine

Adiona Falters copyright © 2017 by William Delman. Originally published in Little Blue Marble

To the Havens copyright © 2015 by Ariel Bolton. Originally published in Flash Fiction Online

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ISBN 978-1-988293-00-4

Cover design by Katrina Archer

Cover image composited from Blue marble on rocky terrain, courtesy Zoltán Vörös, under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License, and The Blue Marble, courtesy NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center.

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For everyone who has ever doubted

In 2017 I was feeling frustrated and stymied by the state of climate change denialism in North America and elsewhere. The problem felt so HUGE, and I found myself getting more and more discouraged by how little I personally could do about it, and how little control I had over what actions the most important players in the world were choosing to take about climate change, or more importantly, choosing not to take.

I’m an engineer. I believe in evidence-based policy. In peer-reviewed science. I believe that the climate crisis is the defining issue of our time. That it’s never too late. That we bear responsibility for our actions and thus the responsibility to face up to their consequences. That we can only look to ourselves for solutions.

But I also believe that the failure of so many to look this problem in the face, whether it’s out of disbelief, denial, confirmation bias, misplaced faith, or greed, is not going to be remedied solely by throwing facts and figures up in purely logical arguments. Because part of the failure is a failure of the imagination. A failure of empathy. A failure to see we are all in this together, and we only have one home: our tiny green gem of a planet.

And thus Little Blue Marble was born. Because I also believe stories have always brought us together. They help us see how other people live, help us imagine our own futures at an emotional level. Little Blue Marble won’t fix this planet. Science, technology, good policy, and the determination of people everywhere will. But if even one story we publish helps spark an idea or solution, or convinces one person on the