Contents Nonfiction From the Editors: Holding On When All That Is Solid Melts Into Air - Arkady Martine January 1, 2020 Two Tides - Anna Kate Blair January 22, 2020 Interviewed by Juliana Roth Resource Extraction Zone - Lissa Harris February 12, 2020 Xoxoxoxoxo - Nicole Walker March 4, 2020 A Rare Hybrid of Dung Beetle and Lion - Noa Covo May 20, 2020 Solarpunk Cities: Notes for a Manifesto - Commando Jugendstil July 1, 2020 Poetry The Dream of the Wood - Leah Bobet January 8, 2020 Damned Water - Brigit A. Truex January 29, 2020 Dark Waters - Deborah L. Davitt February 26, 2020 on the nuclear porch, Victor St. - Hal Y. Zhang March 18, 2020 After Erysichthon - Kaye Boesme April 8, 2020 When the Haze Descends - Shikhandin April 22, 2020 Great Auk - Holly Hughes May 13, 2020 Alive Between the Bands and Your Second Shift at the Factory - Laurinda Lind May 27, 2020 Niger Delta Blues, Unnatural Selection - Tim Fab-Eme June 10, 2020 Fiction Dead Horse Club - Jude Wetherell January 15, 2020 "... an absolutely exquisite piece of writing." -Alex Brown, Tor.com The Last Good Time to Be Alive - Waverly SM February 5, 2020 The Water and the Wall - E. M. Wright February 19, 2020 Happenstance - Fran Wilde March 11, 2020 Thank You For Your Patience - Rebecca Campbell March 25, 2020 "... a story that feels as if it was written specifically for our current situation. Campbell captures a quiet sense of loss and devastation that hits home ..." -Maria Haskins, Curious Fictions Sky Suck - Juliana Roth April 1, 2020 Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter - Emery Robin April 15, 2020 Everything that Happens - William Squirrell April 29, 2020 lady meet mr robinson - Don Dussault May 6, 2020 Billy Ray's Small Appliance Rehabilitation - Geoffrey W. Cole June 3, 2020 Growing Roots - Alan Bao June 17, 2020 Aluminum Hearts - Sydney Rossman-Reich June 24, 2020 Art Defense of the Environment - Didier Graves July 8, 2020
Our future isn't dried up yet, but its shape is not like you imagine. Reckoning is a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. Reckoning 4, guest-edited by Danika Dinsmore and (the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award nominated!) Arkady Martine, focuses on the challenges of urban environments. "A sobering burst of dynamic stories, poems, and essays that struggle with our overheating world. Arkady Martine and Danika Dinsmore have assembled a powerful collection for our unique time." -Tobias Buckell, co-author (with Paolo Bacigalupi) of The Tangled Lands Featuring poetry, essays, fiction and art by Arkady Martine, Leah Bobet, Jude Wetherell, Anna Kate Blair, Lissa Harris, Brigit A. Truex, E. M. Wright, Deborah L. Davitt, Wavery SM, Nicole Walker, Fran Wilde, Juliana Roth, Shikhandin, Emery Robin, Kaye Boesme, Rebecca Campbell, William Squirrell, Holly Hughes, Don Dussault, Noa Covo, Laurinda Lind, Geoffrey W. Cole, Tim Fab-Eme, Hal Y. Zhang, Alan Bao, Sydney Rossman-Reich, Commando Jugendstil and Didier Graves.
Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. Under both names she writes about border politics, narrative and rhetoric, risk communication, and the edges of the world. She is currently a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization, and resiliency planning. Her debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, released in March 2019 from Tor Books, has been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus Awards. Arkady grew up in New York City, and after some time in Turkey, Canada, Sweden, and Baltimore, lives in New Mexico with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Find Arkady online at www.arkadymartine.net or on Twitter as @ArkadyMartine.
