Author Johan Melin talks about the completed Claudia Trilogy - Virtual Roses, Great One Digit and Holy As Robots with Nikolina Stojanova. It became a lovely discussion about art, love, Skopje, AI, happiness and the rage against the machine. We talk about dystopian worlds, magical realism. How Virtual Roses came about. Troll factories and misinformation. Illusions about state and countries. The false narrative of AI. We must reclaim humanity. Democracy on shaken ground. Big Brother pls see me. The self-reporting to the machine. Great One Digit. A farewell to language and a future seen through the eyes of two kids outside of society. Avatars in kafanas. Great One Bildungsnovel. The fighting over fictions and God. Gaza bombed back to stoneage in order to become luxury resorts for settlers. The modern dull times. What makes us Happy. Holy as robots. The return of Manolevski and the Holoverse. How everyone swallows a cyanide pill in the hope of going online again. Time travelling. Killing your grandfather and trying to change the past. To be here and now. The new novel takes place in our time. Why is it easier to imagine the apocalyptic future than a good one. How we imported the warning signs from the scifi. It's never too late trying to save the humans. Brutal hypercapitalistic statusthink that we all work inside. Reclaiming humanistic virtues. Seeing the world as one. The ancient hippie word, solidarity. How countries get indebted. The destructive absurd chains that force people to live terrible lives. The waste machine. America, a third world country based on a entertainment dream. The flipside and poverty of a dream. Follow the money in the decline of Yugoslavia. How stories became an asset. Can an AI make the suits change their minds? Culture replaced with consumage. The Instadream. Is everything measurable? The sport of winning. Alienation. Life of pretenses. Cinematic storytelling in the novels. Skopje life. Outcasts. Mass Culture and algorithms. The love for Skopje. The controversial word of peace. Is anybody on the right track these days. How Sweden's ultracapitalism created the rift in society. Chasing the wrong dream on autopilot. The world can be a better place. To talk about these issues. The Machine is us. Creating a crisis narrative. Ask an AI how we can build a world that is not horrible. To find our way back home. The Virtues.