Issue Details

This overstuffed issue sees the beginning of a regular column on entertainment in the deindustrial age, the first poetry published in New Maps, and the first installment of a new episodic story of a pair of future lawkeepers. These are joined by six excellent new stories that bring us an unorthodox entrepreneur and the possible future of AI; an army officer from the Territories of Menominee under the Queen of the Eastern Canadas; a young man jarred to find himself stumbling into another world; a ragged band’s tale of terror and survival in an impenetrable forest; a young hunter out to prove his worth; and a prospective emigrant who’s faced with having to make a deal. Whatever your hemisphere, enjoy the cool nights of the season with a lively new issue of New Maps.

Contents

Introduction		iv
Letters		v
Essays
Cheap Thrills: A Complexity of Spectacles	Justin Patrick Moore	7
Tough Times for Wandering Luddites	Nathanael Bonnell	16
Sundries & Episodes
Last Aspirations from the Fortress World	Richard Helmling	27
The Circuit Rider, Ep. 1: Mount Up	David Littlehale	29
Stories
In the Outage	Don Mark Baldridge	35
A Hollow Honor	David England	49
Without Possession	Alistair Herbert	67
Return	Derek Dellinger	81
Tȟatȟaŋka Ska	Joe Tankersley	97
The Islands	Daniel Crawford	103

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