New Maps: Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2023

by Nathanael Bonnell, Ben Coppin, Brian M. Milton

Our time will leave an awful lot behind — not all of it good, nor all of it bad. How will the people living in the deindustrial age deal with it? Will they venerate it? preserve it? destroy it? repurpose it? A little of each is on display in the cheeky and sympathetic stories in this issue. A cathedral and a cinema both house people honoring relics of the past in unexpected ways. An armed rebellion in the hill country confuses its opponent’s AI with unorthodox tactics. Caretakers of both classic cars and a classic opera house reckon with their past and wonder about their future. A secret vault proves to contain an unusual and precious treasure. A scholar’s mysterious black liquid raises a dark specter from history. And a strange item spotted in a garbage can will draw a group of teenagers into the mystery of what it is, where it came from, and who the hermit out in the desert really is. Plus letters, speculations on future music, and poetry out of the distant past — a full and thought-provoking New Maps.

104 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2023