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(1984- ) US author, in UK from 2009, later again in America. Her first novel, the nonfantastic America Is Not the Heart (2018), exuberantly anatomizes the Filipino experience in the destination state of California; she is of sf interest for her second novel, the Near Future Moderation (2025), whose protagonist works as a "content moderator" for the manipulative Virtual Reality world created by Redeem, an international corporation whose unadmitted but clearly coercive politicization of this highly immersive world along the lines of right-wing nostalgia may seem prescient (see Media Landscape). A romance story may possibly obscure the darker implications of Castillo's tale.[JC]
born Milpitas, California: 1984
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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