Nicholas B Chua invited Anittha Thanabalan and myself to talk about our novels Sofia and the Utopia Machine and The Lights that Find Us and their respective adaptations to film and VR! Nicholas had also made Barbie dolls inspired by our books. Sofia’s was a Barbie in an “updated” RGS uniform that featured batik!
We had a really interesting discussion about Mediacorp censorship and adaptation, the creepy computer games the Singapore government was making primary school kids play in the 90s, what a perfume inspired by Sofia and the Utopia Machine might smell like, and the importance of games and gaming to our novels (and novel-in-progress for Nicholas!)
Thank you so much Nicholas for organizing and A Nerd Gallery for hosting.
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