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Bringing Sci-Fi down to Earth 🌎🌨✨ A ~*soilpunk*~ quarterly Winter is here! Issue 4: THAW out now 🌗❄️🕯️ 🧑💻 Website: tractorbeam.earth 💌 Newsletter: tractorbeamearth.substack.com 📱 IG: www.instagram.com/tractorbeam.earth
Heyyy bookworms! 👋📚🪱
Tomorrow we’re chatting with Sophie Strand, writer and guest editor of Tractor Beam’s first ever mini issue, Bodies. Read the stories from the collection on our page and subscribe to get notified as soon as we go live!
tractorbeamearth.substack.com
It was an honor having @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social guest edit our Winter issue! You can read the stories and his thoughts on the collection at tractorbeam.earth
If this is your first time coming across us, nice to meet you. We're a quarterly science fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk. ❄️🌱❤️
Thanks for sharing one of our stories! 💚
23.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FFer Read of the Day: "Blessed Soil" by Russell Nichols in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/blesse...
for your hugo-nominating consideration, The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat by Romie Stott, Tractor Beam 2025
It would be very cool (and also completely shocking) if someone were to nominate my 2025 climate-fiction short story "The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat" for a Hugo.
Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2.
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...
This Friday, our podcast Book Worms is back! ❄️📖🐛
Join us for a fun convo with Tara Labovich about their short story featured in our latest issue, Thaw.
Read "The Order of Soil" here: www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-or...
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🥰💚 shout out to all our annotators helping bridge the gap between fact and fiction!
11.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
All the images are screenshots from my story “The Flowers Where Five-Eighty Used to Be” at the link in the post. The title illustration is of two women sitting on the roof of a car in the middle of a field of sunflowers
One of the most validating things that’s ever happened to me as a writer: @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social got subject matter experts to annotate my story about housing & soil remediation. I don’t know if anyone’s read them but I love that they’re there.
Full text: www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-fl...
🥰 thanks for the shoutout as always, Gunnar!
22.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't sleep on Tractor Beam. They're doing great things with short fiction and really cool artwork.
#writing #writingcommunity
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22.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!
09.01.2026 19:46 — 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1Excited to dig into this list, thanks for sharing one of our stories! 💚
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Wow thank you Íde! My story about popcorn saving humanity despite big agriculture and colonialism is in beautiful company. 🙏
If you like ochre psychedelic mists, I’ve got a story for you!
Thank you @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social for publishing
In “The Valley In Thaw,” a long-dormant robot awakens to witness the seasonal rebirth of a valley and the fragile persistence of lives, human and otherwise, that occupy it.
Read the final story from our Winter Issue, written by @epbirdsall.bsky.social and illustrated by Xiang Yata, out now!
Memory and reality blur as a young woman takes her dying great-grandmother on an Arctic voyage to fulfill her lifelong dream of seeing polar bears.
“There Where I Am Not” written by Tracey Fahey and illustrated by Julia Dufosse is available to read now on Tractor Beam! ❄️🧊✨
#clifi #soilpunk #thaw
Read “We Don’t Talk About The Weather In Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico” written by William Hawkins and illustrated by Catherine Sieck (@catherinesieck), out now on Tractor Beam! 🐺🌞🌿
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/truth-...
#TractorBeamThaw #newmexico #desert #regnerativefarming #coyotes
“Apocalypse is just an alternative spelling of anthropomorphism.”
In a near-future desert where daytime heat is lethal, a couple dismantling the ruins of the old world learns that survival, and hope, depend on acts of care for the land, and for each other...
#scifi #climatefiction #shortstory
Looking for more weekend reading? Check out the full Winter issue, Thaw, at tractorbeam.earth. 🌏❄️📚
#winterreading #climatefiction #scifi #soilpunk #thaw
In a frozen prison, women are enlisted to gestate worms that could reanimate the world’s dead soil.
“Mother of Worms” written by Bradley J. Collins (@jfisher1215.bsky.social) and illustrated by Ard Su is available to read now on Tractor Beam! 🪱📖✨
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/mother...
thanks for spreading the word! 💚
02.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social is open for submissions. They have a very specific niche but if you write dystopian scifi(or at least post climate change) it might be a good fit.
Via @harlinhayley.bsky.social
tractorbeam.earth/about
#writersky #submissionsCall #solarpunk #soilpunk #scifi
On the Siberian tundra, a young herder and an anthropologist fight to protect mammoth hybrids engineered to keep the permafrost from melting.
"When The Land Speaks" written by Jason Collins and illustrated by Varvara Nedilska is available to read now on Tractor Beam! 📖❄️✨
#clifi #soilpunk #thaw
Could we go back? Is there anything left for us to return to?
Dig into this special #soilpunksunday comic, “Birdwatching” written and illustrated by Maisie Cowell, available to read now on Tractor Beam. 🌏🐦❄️🌙
#sundaycomic #thaw #tractorbeam #soilpunk #winterreading
The year is 2548. A 200-year extreme drought has swept over earth, forcing the human race to rely on massive drilling operations to extract fresh water from deep below the surface of the dry sea bed. You are a maintenance worker, lonely yet quietly hopeful, as the earth stirs in its sleep...
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Stay tuned this Sunday for the next installment of our Winter 2025 Issue, Thaw. 👀❄️🕯️📖
#TractorBeamThaw #soilpunk #regenerativefarming #shortstory #climatefiction
As Sister Claudine restores the prarie lands around her convent, she reconciles her seemingly wayward faith with love, purpose, and a future rooted in the soil. 🌾❤️🌏
"The Order Of Soil" written by Tara Labovich and illustrated by Pola Maneli is available to read now on Tractor Beam!
For more holiday reading, check out our full archive of short stories and graphic novellas at tractorbeam.earth and subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) to receive new stories as soon as they drop.
#TractorBeamThaw #soilpunk #botany #artic #scifi
A spy teams up with an idealistic botanist to trek across the Arctic to steal humanity's last unmodified seeds from their corporate overlords...and might just steal their heart along the way. ❤️🌱❄️
"Mustard Seed" written by James Longine Yu and illustrated by Anuj Shrestha is out now!