Tag: social justice

• Accomplished: first convention of 2021!

  

  I boxed up all my freakout fears, scraped up all my post-hibernation energy, & attended an online convention.

  K. M. Herkes

  February 8, 2021

  Authoring, Cons & Appearances, Writing Life

  always learning, brains are weird, bread, conventions, dystopian research, frustration, social justice, social media, stress baking

• 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

• 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

  February 2, 2020

  3. Other Things, Whimsy, Writing Life

  lists, philosophy, random, sleepy thoughts, social justice

• 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

  November 10, 2016

  2. Worldbuilding, nuts & bolts

  inspiration, Restoration Stories, social justice, worldbuilding, writing

• 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 […]

  K. M. Herkes

  December 26, 2014

  Book reviews

  books are food, craft, discrimination, plotting, reviews, social justice