Tag: history

• This isn’t over. Not yet. Maybe never.

  Look. I’ve spent years into studying societies, how people fuck them up, and how they unfuck themselves. Politics is history happening, science fiction is the history of the future, and I write hopeful dystopian fantasy & science fiction. So of course I’ve been glued to the news for, um, ever, but especially the last few […]

  K. M. Herkes

  January 19, 2021

  2. Worldbuilding, 3. Other Things, Writing Life

  dystopian research, elections, future history, history, life, Navel Gazing, politics, social justice

• A Host of Things Viewed

  Watching and pondering. It’s what I’ve been doing.

  K. M. Herkes

  April 30, 2018

  Media Consumption, Writing Life

  history, movie reviews, science, science-fiction, television

• Telling stories again

  

  thinkie-thinks about various things.

  K. M. Herkes

  September 19, 2017

  1. Storysculpting, 3. Other Things

  geek life, history, inspiration, Navel Gazing, philosophy, writer’s life

• Dystopian? I’m not sure.

  

  Pondering the nature of the future.

  K. M. Herkes

  February 9, 2017

  1. Storysculpting, 2. Worldbuilding, nuts & bolts

  dystopian, history, Human nature, science-fiction, world building, writing

• Making up Holidays is no party

  Thursday. My self-assigned “post about world-building” day.  It’s also Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday devoted to overeating, family strife, and promoting national mythology at the expense of historical fact. In recent years, consumer hysteria and socio-economic inequality have bubbled up into that poisonous mix. Not that I have any personal issues with Thanksgiving or holidays in general. Oh, no. I might […]

  K. M. Herkes

  November 24, 2016

  2. Worldbuilding, hIstorical notes, nuts & bolts

  history, holidays, imagination, inspiration, Restoration Stories, writing