Tractor Beam
Tractor Beam, Sophie Strand, Fatimah Asghar, Claire Gustavson, Anuska Dhar, Christina Lee, T. K. Rex, Sarah Royston, Tara Labovich, Celina Baljeet Basra, Jeff VanderMeer, Shingai, William, Andrew Mitchell, SitayeA soilpunk quarterly Bringing Sci-Fi down to Earth
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| Issues | 73 | Subscribers | Read | tractorbeamearth.substack.com |
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Book Worms: Jeff VanderMeer on Writing Annihilation and Guest Editing for Tractor Beam
Join us live on Substack every week for a new episode of Book Worms, and subscribe (for free!) to get access to our group chat and the full archive of past episodes. Follow us on Instagram (@tractorbeam.earth) for more fun behind-the-scenes...
Book Worms: T.K. Rex on Embodying a Dinosaur, Time Travel, and Preserving History Through Speculative Fiction
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Like a Skeleton in Desert Sand
You’re reading the final story in Underground, Tractor Beam’s Spring 2026 issue. You can read Fatimah Asghar’s guest editor letter and the remaining stories here. Subscribe to receive future Tractor Beam issues in your inbox as soon as they...
The Ecstasy of Serpents
You’re reading the ninth story in Underground, Tractor Beam’s Spring 2026 issue. You can read Fatimah Asghar’s guest editor letter and the remaining stories here. Subscribe to receive future Tractor Beam issues in your inbox as soon as they...
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A soilpunk quarterly \ud83d\udcd6\ud83d\ude9c\ud83d\udef8 Bringing Sci-Fi down to Earth \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udf28✨
Sophie Strand is a writer/compost heap based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology.
I am a writer and a filmmaker. Author of IF THEY COME FOR US & WHEN WE WERE SISTERS & DAUGHTER OF THE MOUNTAINS (forthcoming) & writer & co-creator of Brown Girls Web Series & co-producer on Ms. Marvel. queer & muslim.
˚ ༘ Just a human trying to make real friends and surreal futures here on Earth ೀ⋆｡˚ \ud83d\udd2e\ud83c\udf3e\ud80c\udc83\ud83e\udeb6co-creator/[email protected] | co-founder @beacon.now \ud83d\udcdf\ud80c\udc24\ud83e\udea9\ud80c\udc24\ud80c\udc25
writer girl \ud83c\udf52 | social and community manager at Tractor Beam | previously at Refinery29, VICE, Soledad O'Brien Productions, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and more
Science fiction and fantasy author from the western states. My debut climate fiction collection THE WILDCRAFT DRONES drops fall 2026.
Writer inspired by nature, folklore and English landscapes. Twitter: @sarahroyston4
Teacher, Poet, Writer
Writer and Curator, based in Berlin
Just a wandering texter
Shingai is an Afro-surreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya. Shi is thinking about world building with words, resistance, and plant magic (potatoes make the world go round)
Andrew Mitchell is a UK-based multidisciplinary writer, artist, and photographer whose work explores the poetic tension between nostalgia and innovation asking what it means to be human in a world quietly being unmade and remade.
Aobakwe Ngwenya is an emerging writer and illustrator. He is currently completing his undergraduate degree in film production, with a discipline in production design and co-ordination.
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