Speaking of Imagining the Future...

I'm delighted to announce that the first issue of New Maps, the new quarterly magazine of deindustrial future fiction, is in print and available for purchase. It's got stories by a fine mix of established deindustrial fiction authors and newcomers to the field -- Pierre Magdeleine, Dawn Vogel, Daniel Chawner, Jonathan Reif, Jeff Burt, David England, G. Kay Bishop and Violet Bertelsen -- as well as a book review and a letters column that is already full of conversation. I'm eagerly looking forward to my copy. 

If you're interested, you can get more information here. Copies of the first issue or subscriptions to the first four issues can be bought here. (Sensibly enough, you can also subscribe by mail -- instructions are on the bottom of the order page.)  Interested in writing for New Maps?  Publisher-editor Nathanael Bonnell would love to hear from you; please check out the submissions page and proceed from there. Want to write a letter to the editor?  Here's your link. 

As we move deeper into the penumbra of the deindustrial age, and the failed certainties of the conventional wisdom collapse around us, new maps of the territory ahead are one of our most pressing needs. As I noted in a recent blog post, while politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from imagination, and the stories we write and read today are crucial resources for helping us navigate the possibility space of tomorrow. 

Magic Monday

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything ***about occultism*** (ahem) and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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