Phoebe Barton
Phoebe Barton writes stories that she does a surprising amount of calculations for.
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Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, On Spec, and Persistent Visions, and anthologies from Bundoran Press and Alliteration Ink. She lives with a robot in the sky above Toronto, and is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find out more at www.phoebebartonsf.com.
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A Square of Flesh, A Cube of Steel
Published Nov 5, 2019 · 5,445 words (20 minutes) · 964 views
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On a cold, small moon inhabited by giant women, a young trans woman grapples with the possibility of losing her girlfriend along with everything and everyone she knows when a starship arrives to take her back to Mars.
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Midway on the Waves
Published Aug 23, 2019 · 8,172 words (30 minutes) · 263 views
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Twenty-five years after Titan won its independence, a woman who witnessed a city shattered is still trying to come to grips with her trauma in the shards of her world. This is a follow-up to the story "Where the Flock Wanders."
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Where the Flock Wanders
Published Apr 5, 2019 · 3,549 words (13 minutes) · 1 like · 252 views
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Three Years of Ashes and Twenty Years of Dust
Published May 22, 2018 · 6,805 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 655 views
Leaving the past behind is hard, no matter what planet you live on. Settle in with a cup of cosmic tea, and follow one woman’s otherworldly quest for justice as she speeds toward redefining her life far, far away in this work of science fiction by Phoebe Barton. Phoebe's work has appeared in publications from Analog, to Bundoran Press, to Alliteration Ink.
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