Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement — Part Three
By K.A. Wiggins
Sentience, much less human-equivalent or -exceeding intelligence among spontaneously generated constructs, was an unproven hypothesis for the first four years following the initial documented case of Stones and strongly frowned upon among the scientific establishment for at least another decade.
The first Stones, single-minded in their pursuits and wholly uninterested in verbal or, indeed, any systematic forms of communication beyond their simple language of cause and effect, took no notice of this oversight.
The children they saved, the refugees they sheltered, and the non-combatants they protected likewise were indifferent to what the scholarly journals had or had not published.
The aggressors who broke themselves against unyielding formations that had not existed moments before removed from themselves the opportunity to form an opinion one way or another.
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author who can't stop inserting monsters (and magic) into local landscapes.
Best known for her gothic-dystopian YA+ Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams, in which a macabre (neurospicy) misfit storms monster-infested, post-eco-apocalypse Vancouver, her quietly subversive works have also appeared in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, The NoSleep Podcast, Fantasy Magazine, and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, among others.
Kaie spends her days with books on the traditional unceded territory of the K’omoks and Pentlatch peoples, writing, working as a school library tech, teaching as a Creative Writing for Children Society educator, and leading the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society. Find her at kawiggins.com.
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