The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy, a tale of a demented future in which a humanoid mosquito, whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, takes his revenge in the dying years of an exploited Earth. This week, our culture editor Alison Flood caught up with Nieva to delve into how he got into the mind of a mosquito, the importance of telling sci-fi stories from a South American perspective, and the inevitability of capitalism even at the end of the world.
Read more: New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero
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