The Skagerrak in 2074

I study zooplankton communities in the Kattegat and the North Sea approaches. If you want the full title it's on my university profile page. What it means in practice is that I spend a lot of time at sea counting small things that most people have never heard of, and comparing what I find now to what was counted in 1978, and the comparison is not reassuring. I started writing speculative fiction in 2019 because I was doing a lot of public outreach and the data was landing with no weight. Graphs don't do what a story does. My first piece was published in a Swedish SF magazine called *Allt om vetenskap* and the editor told me it was technically impeccable and emotionally competent, which is the best review I have received and also the one I think about when I'm stuck. The novel I'm currently working on is set in the Gothenburg archipelago in 2074, during what I'm calling the Replanting. I'm not going to describe the premise here because every time I do, people want to debate the science rather than the story. The science is correct. The story is what I'm still figuring out. My office is at the university on Medicinareberget and I write on the train between there and Partille.