Inside these pages are visions of a deindustrial future. These stories are a different way of understanding our future, devoid of spaceships and interstellar travel and instead focusing on a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet. These are imaginings of the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future. From a civilization 1,500 years from now whose religions stem from the Principia Discordia and a worship of commerce, to agricultural societies dealing with climate change and chaos, to ritualistic death by rising sea and the struggles of a small town doctor, these stories take a hard look at the destructive ways in which we are currently treating our ecosystems, consider the inevitable consequences, and map out the likely futures we are making for ourselves. The results, rooted firm right here on Earth, are fascinating and compelling.

Into the Ruins: Spring 2016

Science Fiction & Fantasy

McGuire, Catherine

whelKs, Tony f.

Caris, Joel

Bishop, G. Kay

Shamburger, J.

Scott, N. N.

Science Fiction

Figuration Press

The reader decides the outcome of a raid on Nightmare Castle to rescue a captive ruler.

Raid on Nightmare Castle (An Endless Quest Book, Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Book )

Fantasy

Wizards of the Coast

Trouble on Artule (ENDLESS QUEST)

Children's Books

Into the Ruins returns with a new slate of fascinating and compelling stories exploring futures defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from our shortsighted and reckless exploitation of our only world. These are the sort of futures, set right here on earth, that we’re likely to get, as opposed to shiny fantasies set amongst the stars. You’ll find within a fantastic new story from Jason Heppenstall in which a mysterious old man cultivates a garden on the dusty outskirts of a desert town, Catherine McGuire exploring one woman’s fight against cruelty and exploitation, a tale from Matthew Griffiths set in the world of John Michael Greer’s Star’s Reach, a meditative snapshot of our post-oil future from Ian O’Reilly, and a lovely new tale from Rachel White that captures the mythic dimensions of our future. Not to mention, a new “Deindustrial Futures Past” column from John Michael Greer, Justin Patrick Moore's survey of characters from James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand series, and a thought-provoking, rollicking, filled-to-the-brim letters section.

Into the Ruins: Fall 2016

O'Reilly, Ian

Griffiths, Matthew

White, Rachel

Heppenstall, Jason

A naive, young government official arrives in an economically devastated midwest and soon finds himself entangled in a disturbing mystery. An expedition gone terribly wrong leads to the discovery of a hidden clan with surprising social arrangements born of disease, cruelty, experimentation, and physical pleasure. A bus ride across the deindustrialized Canadian countryside spurs a happy connection. Two men form an unlikely friendship as they work their way toward flight. And a village mentor discovers unexpected forms of darkness in her friends and neighbors, leading her to question herself and those around her. In this fifth issue of Into the Ruins, explorations of our deindustrial future take intriguing turns both dark and delightful. These visions—extraordinary at times, rooted in an utterly normal and yet still fascinating world at others—stretch the boundaries of our imagined future. At times mysterious and thrilling, this is a new type of science fiction, offering unknown worlds found right here on earth.

Into the Ruins: Spring 2017

Pangborn, Matthew

Harris, Wylie

Siebert, Dylan

A seer tells a mad king his future under the threat of death. Two men isolated on a Northwest island work to re-establish contact with a devastated outside world. A powerful woman struggles with how to respond to the upcoming power shifts in both her society and home. And a man's life is changed after a chance encounter in the forest leads to an intense love affair. These are just a few of the stories found in this eighth issue of Into the Ruins, continuing our exploration of future worlds riven with the consequences of today's actions. These are worlds near and far in the future, uniquely their own, giving glimpses into the sort of realities we actually do face while making clear that the worlds of tomorrow are just as compelling and complicated as the world of today.

Into the Ruins: Winter 2018

Schofield, Holly

Moore, Justin Patrick

Bertelsen, Violet

Hayer, Greta

Cooke, KL

Herbert, Alistair

In Merigan Tales: Stories from the World of Star’s Reach, author John Michael Greer brings together eight authors in a shared-world anthology of brand new tales inspired by his popular novel, Star’s Reach. These are stories of the far future in a world where fossil fuel-powered industrial civilization is a distant memory and new societies have emerged.

Merigan Tales: Stories from the World of Star's Reach

GREER, John Michael

JOHNSON, BEN

Sevcik, Al

Canterbury, Grant

Jones III, Troy

Freitag, Walt

Founders House Publishing, LLC

Mythic #1: Winter 2016

Cross, Kirsten

Kilgore, Shaun

Keele, D. B.

Senti, David

Hoyt, Joanna Michal

It had seemed so simple, even fun, when they explained it: New York needed non-satellite-based relay towers. Commco sent me to find towns along the needed pathway, to offer to restore some of the boons of civilization in return for an agreement to build, power and guard the towers. After all, it had only been fifty years. I would never have believed that the countryside would have turned barbaric so fast. Thus begins Martin Barrister’s journey through an unfamiliar landscape, where his training and skills are of little help, and only quick wits and creativity will allow him to survive. When his job turns out to be a ruse, and he becomes bait in a dispute he can barely fathom, Martin discovers what loyalty is worth. And what civilization is – and isn’t – comprised of.

Lifeline: A Novel

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