Andrea Chapela
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348 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And it's a story that takes a little bit of this thinking of... It's about love and it's about friendship and what is the difference between each other, but also it's about...
What happens to those feelings?
What really matters at the end of the world?
Like it has this question throughout the book, like who would you choose to be?
If the world ended, who would you choose to spend it with?
And so I continue to explore that.
It's very important to me to continue to see how to explore...
what's happening with the natural world and with the climate crisis and what it does to fiction.
I'm so intrigued by it that I'm doing a PhD trying to see what happens to it.
It's a little bit of my obsession, especially in Latin American fiction and Latin American science fiction.
I'm really intrigued by the idea of hope and how do you integrate hope?
Like how do you, how not to write
Ends of the world that are completely apocalyptic and chaotic and horrible when there's nothing possible.
How do you write a story that feels real but also opens up to a possibility?
And I feel that it's a question that Latin American fiction is posing and that I want to bring also to science fiction.
It does in different ways.
There is the science fiction that's more going to
Like you have the science fiction that's very decolonizing and trying to figure out how to also how to write science fiction, which is a genre that is so obsessed with progress and technology.
And when those values are not the values at the core of your society necessarily, or how do you write science fiction then?
And how do you write like futurist?
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