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Tractor Beam seeks original written and graphic works set on a future Earth transformed by new approaches to soil. 

Tractor Beam is a quarterly fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk: radical visions of hopeful futures built from the ground up. 

Our stories explore audacious and provocative ideas around farming, food, earth science, and beyond, reimagining how humans can live more harmoniously with nature.

 So let’s bring sci-fi down to earth–literally–and sow the seeds of a better tomorrow, today.

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Tractor Beam

We are looking for original written and graphic works that have actionable soil-based technologies as their premise.

For our upcoming issues, we’re specifically seeking stories celebrating decay and rot, ice and snow (the frozen earth), the ocean and soil under water, fashion and style, soil as tech, soil as the origin of life and anti-apocalyptic futures. Literal or abstract, near term or on distant horizons: worlds can take inspiration from innovations or alternative practices in earth and material science, regenerative agriculture, food, microbiology, and more.

A perfect Tractor Beam story gets readers thinking: “What if this really could happen?” “What’s the soil science behind it?” “What do I need to learn to be a part of a thriving planet?” 

Think optimism! Think cross-genre submissions. A soilpunk romance, spy thriller, coming of age story. 

Call for Submissions

For our upcoming issues, we’re specifically seeking stories exploring a positive future on Earth with an emphasis on soil and agriculture in the winter, the productive role of ice and snow in the seasons, frost and permafrost, future fashion and style, entertainment and culture, the ocean and soil under water, soil as tech, soil as the origin of life and anti-apocalyptic futures. Literal or abstract, near term or on distant horizons: worlds can take inspiration from innovations or alternative practices in earth and material science, regenerative agriculture, food, microbiology, and more.

Open Call: Issue 4

For the sixth issue of Tractor Beam, we’re looking for stories about the role of water in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems large and small. We are specifically seeking anti-apocalyptic visions that explore the future of water in farming and food production, island ecologies, hybrid sea-soil technologies, the people who move water and the people water moves. Stories about drought, diaspora, and what gets carried downstream. 

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