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The Future Is Blue

Catherynne M. Valente Drowned Worlds 2016 Novelette Post Apocalypse 8,800 words details

Teenage Tetley lives in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now.

Speculative Fiction Political Resistance Unreliable Narrator

Content warnings 4

deathsexual-violencesubstance-useviolence

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Dispatches From The Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours In The Sea Of Massachusetts

Ken Liu Drowned Worlds 2016 ShortStory Post Apocalypse 6,600 words details

Around 2650 AD, the narrator interviews a wealthy recluse who lives above the sunken ruins of Boston.

Speculative Fiction Diaspora Epistolary Adjacent

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Last Gods

Sam J. Miller Drowned Worlds 2016 ShortStory Climate Change 6,200 words details

On the edge of the ruined land, village people worship Orcas as gods. Unbeliever Kelb is up to something, and Adze tries to help him because she loves him.

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