Kari Aguila

Kari Aguila brings experience as a former geologist to speculative fiction examining power, social roles, and unequal systems. Women’s Work, her first novel, imagines a future society reshaped after men lose political and economic authority. Rather than presenting the new order as a simple reversal, Aguila follows characters who confront the costs of hierarchy and the gap between an ideal of equality and coercive practice. Kirkus lists Women’s Work among her fiction, while Aguila’s author profile describes her move from scientific publications into dystopian storytelling. The novel later gained a companion story, RUN Ragged, which continues the setting through Rhia, a character introduced in the earlier book. Aguila’s scientific background is relevant to her method: she builds a social thought experiment and then tests its consequences through individual choices. Women’s Work will interest readers of issue-driven speculative fiction that uses an altered society to ask who benefits from institutions, how injustice is normalized, and whether power alone can create fairness.