S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author
Reversing Climate Change
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The Importance of Social Media in Fiction
I would write the version that was like too self-aware. Like one of the scripts we were working on back in the day as like the most like intentionally fourth wall breaking, just like satire of rom-coms. It was kind of a commentary on how like at this point in humanity's life, everything is a reference to something else and there isn't a whole lot of unmediated experience. And so I do have to kind of contrive these stories to be like a little bit less realistic than they are because like, I just don't want to read a book about somebody on their phone.
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