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an environmental scientist who researches the effects of radiation on wildlife around Chernobyl.
but I suspect that recently the realist tradition has been particularly challenged by the flood of big data.INTERVIEWERWhat have you been reading recently?GALERAI often read even more than usual while working on a new book.
I needed details to create a tension between the couples intimacy and the looming threat beyond their refuge.INTERVIEWERAre there works of science fiction that you especially love?GALERAI enjoy what they call hard science fiction—stories that are committed to scientific accuracy but that usually extract the most fabulous and mind-bending conclusions from it: books like Peter Wattss Blindsight and Cixin Lius The Three Body Problem trilogy.Brazil suffered the additional tragedy of a president that was and remains anti-vaccines and scoffs daily in the media at masks and isolation measures.
or something else?GALERAThe story came out of my recollections of how I felt in the days before the election of Jair Bolsonaro.that history might be stuck in some sort of high-speed vortex that wont deliver a satisfying outcome.
but science fiction and fantasy provide a useful freedom and a perspective from which to write about the present day.
When peoples lives and daily affairs are so mediated by that kind of technology and by relentless digital reproduction.noting that just this week the court overturned a 40-year-old labor union decision.
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the director of the EmmettInstitute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law.Will a new court overturn Massachusetts v.
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