New Maps: Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 2025) - PDF

In this issue, find stories of what we leave behind, and what’s made of it by those who come after us: a team of secret-hunters who take a crack at a valuable abandoned data center; a librarian who pulls together clues from the last highly connected days to find an unsettling story of their end; a hermit whose hideout in a decommissioned nuclear plant is under threat from outside and, somehow, inside; a beloved machine that finds a new home. And stories of people trying to find ways forward: a man traveling through wreckage who finds his companion’s appetites disturbing but can’t seem to part from him; a scientist on a mission to find what genetics can do for life in a warming world; a man who stays behind in his home when everyone else has fled the climatic shift, but has never quite put his finger on why; a girl who has, with boundless cheer, started a new field club for cataloging what wildlife is doing amid the upheaval in the weather. As well find poetry and reflections on how new cultures develop when the center fails to hold. Welcome back to New Maps.