Science Fiction | Social Good

First the incremental update: Lovers of paper (I am one) Blueprints for Better Worlds is finally available in paperback. 

Now an abrupt shift in tone: I think of Blueprints as my portal project. It’s the one that lies between the world we have and the one we want. Inside it you’ll find a link between them. 

That link is a humble start that I hope to build on to provide useful information and tools to fashion a better world. Hope without action turns to grief and desolation. So this is one of the ways I’m using mine. 

And, no, hope ain’t easy, and it’s rarely fed. But there’s not much point without it.

Audre said it best: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” So I’m scouting out new tools, leaving them in secluded spots. 

Though part of me says, let ‘em have that fucking house. What will it be once it’s empty of those who kept it? 

Either way it’s time to build a new one – same land, maybe next door or down the road a piece on a sunnier patch, but something we raise up together, and not because we’re making nice and ignoring the inequalities, but because we make it through by addressing and rectifying them.  

You don’t need to believe any of that to read the book. 

It’s its own entity, but it sprung from the union of science fiction and social good. I can only hope it contributes to both.

I’m not much for providing context to a work; so this may be the only time I do so, and what times they are. Right now, I’m here for it.