How do we face the deindustrial future when we’re all alone? An isolated research team in the long Greenlandic night looks for the source of a mysterious disruption to a glacier-preserving project. A mother and daughter far from land receive a strange visitor. A system admin alone in a tower tries to keep the data flowing when a new threat appears. And how do we face it with our communities? Two high-schoolers look for help to create a business for a changed future. A small town’s only optometrist wonders if he’s being replaced when an apprentice turns up. A young man’s disappearance offers a clue important to his whole village.

These stories are joined by columns and letters on the importance of different ways of thinking, new field notes, and more, helping beautifully round out the second year of New Maps.

Contents

Introduction		iv
Letters		1
Essays & Reviews
Cheap Thrills: The Power of Three	Justin Patrick Moore	7
Whither English?	Nathanael Bonnell	17
Field Notes	Contributed by readers	26
Stories
The Mythmaker’s Daughter	Pierre Magdelaine	31
Greenland	JJ Dettman	44
Building and Loan	Eric Rust Backos	56
The Optometrist’s Apprentice	Clint Spivey	61
BlackRabbit	C.M. Barnes	76
Jacob’s Ladder	Wesley Stine	86

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