Kameron Hurley is the author of the subversive epic fantasy novel The Mirror Empire and the science-fantasy noir God’s War trilogy. Her work earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. Hurley has been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and BFS Award for non-fiction. She pens a bi-monthly column with Locus Magazine on writing-related topics and blogs regularly at kameronhurley.com.
Our view of the world, and reality, is a constructed one. Our brains—in their unending quest to be more efficient—often pull on early images and memories to construct our view of the real world. After all, what other information do we have to achieve this but those early stories about how the world is, how it works?
