What might the deindustrial future bring? Cut off inhabitants in a flooded California face a furious storm; the residents of an island of refuge must determine the fate of unnerving visitors; a desolate landscape is visited by a series of mysterious and haunting musical notes; and one final, critical act determines the outcome of a new Civil War. These possibilities and more await in the pages within, weaving tales of the future that refuse to bow to the assumptions of our times and instead ask us to imagine what might come from the choices we face, and in what ways we might yet forge futures of meaning in the hard times ahead.

This book contains some of the best and most engaging essays from Violet Bertelsen's blogging career. The work explores Western Occultism through Bertelsen's singular perspective and extensive practical experience. Written for the serious student and the intellectually curious, there is something for everyone within.

Demonstrating the diversity of deindustrial science fiction, this issue brings stories told from both the human and non-human perspective. And between Alistair Herbert's succinct portrait of a future hunter and part one of Violet Bertelsen's sprawling novella detailing the lives found within the future village of La Vezita, this issue contains both the longest and shortest stories yet published in Into the Ruins. Coupled with stories of a forest with a thirst for human blood, rationalism run amok, and a special kind of magic-not to mention an excellent and eclectic letters section-this issue closes out the third year of Into the Ruins on a high note.

This books synthesizes Renaissance Astrological Herbalism, Hoodoo, the Cabala, and contemporary herbal practice into a comprehensive theoretical framework for working with the magical powers of plants in service to personal development, with many simple and powerful techniques described and elaborated.