Tag: social justice
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Accomplished: first convention of 2021!
I boxed up all my freakout fears, scraped up all my post-hibernation energy, & attended an online convention.
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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 […]
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Two random thoughts
…because I am awake at ridiculous o’clock (thank you, abrupt weather changes, for these fantastic joint aches and this fabulous itch-behind-the-eyes headache-ish thing that cancelled my sleep after only two hours) AND I’m behind on blogging, so here I am, filling time and space. Random thing the first: a realization about genderthink It all started […]
K. M. Herkes
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Class in My Classless Society
This week’s bit of Restoration Stories trivia takes a look at the Subsistence system and the way good ideas always have unintended consequences. Like the earlier ones I’ve posted, it’s framed as a bit taken from faux publication. Excerpt from “A Call for Change,” the unofficial manifesto of the anti-Subsistence movement. The Subsistence system, with its simple and […]
K. M. Herkes
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Review: Mystic & Rider by Sharon Shinn
Disclaimer: Like most of my reviews of a sole title in a multi-book ecology, this review really covers elements common to the whole series, not merely the first book. The book is Mystic & Rider, and the series is called The Twelve Houses. Every so often, I revisit the backlist of authors I love. It […]