New Maps: Vol. 3, No. 1: Winter 2023

by Nathanael Bonnell, Justin Patrick Moore, Daniel Crawford

Subconsciously perhaps, many people count on some kind of magic to step in and save the fossil-fuel economy from its own self-terminating nature, ushering in an age of limitless abundance. It won’t. But what if magic were to show up in the deindustrial future…and take things in its own directions?

In a themed issue first proposed shortly after the inception of New Maps to enthusiastic response, here are five stories of magic showing up not to save us from the consequences of the age of profligacy, but to help us deal with the new reality, to soften the blow of its arrival, or to cast the foolishness of the old one into a revealing from a subway car visited by scruffy supernatural subterraneans, to a way to escape Earth that seems too perfect to be true, to high-schoolers experimenting with an occult slide rule, to a witch with an ancient secret to use on an invading army, to the genesis of a new goddess from warring times and troubled origins. Illuminating new articles, book reviews, letters, and poetry complete an uncommonly magical issue.

112 pages, Paperback

Published February 10, 2023