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The Crunchyroll series “Solo Leveling,” adapted from a South Korean web novel, examines economic inequality through the lens of characters who develop supernatural powers to fight monsters.

She loved coming up with story ideas and character backgrounds, and helping to sculpt the ending, which differs from the novel, was pure joy.

“Any time people are testing and developing novel technologies — particularly those that harness the renewable power of the ocean — that’s a fantastic situation,” Robertson said.

Brown’s new novel, “The Secret of Secrets,” is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature, and the possible future, of human consciousness.

His ambition with the novel, he said, was to somehow "bring the past and the future and the present into a kind of dialogue".